The president of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio in the last week subtly gave a hint to Ndigbo on how they can ease the yoke of political marginalization that has been the lot of their people since the 1966 crisis. The new trail for Igbo emancipation surfaced at the night of tributes for the late […]

After its calamitous trouncing in the Edo State governorship election two months ago, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP could be headed towards death if it fails to revive itself in today’s governorship election in Ondo State. However, having repeated the same mistakes it did in Edo State, the prospects of the PDP cashing in on […]

John Wayne’s words that “a man is only as good as his word” shine through in the political appraisal of the person and politics of Dr Doyin Okupe. Okupe burst into the political limelight as one of the leading lights of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC in the late nineties. His seemingly conservative inclination […]

Two major developments this week suggest that Nigeria’s democracy may not have been totally forsaken as some critics had lately implied. The first on Wednesday was the war of words between the minister of works, Senator David Umahi, and the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on FERMA, Engr.  Remi Oseni. The second ‘cheerful’ […]

For a man who warned the Igbo that they would only get bread soaked in water if they scorned him, it is a shock that President Bola Tinubu has picked one of the finest, fittest, and fondest of that race into his cabinet. The nomination of Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu into the Bola Tinubu cabinet came […]

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, arguably the most stoic political canvasser in Edo State since the advent of the Fourth Republic was there sitting with Senator Monday Okpebholo, the victorious candidate of the APC, the day after the contentious governorship election last September. Ize-Iyamu’s role in the emergence and victory of Okpebhelo had been partly clouded by […]

It was not the first time that Nigeria’s House of Representatives would resort to buffoonery when the members last Wednesday adopted a motion to reject the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR bequeathed on Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Their beef was that the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio was conferred with […]

What may remain etched in the memory of many people following last weekend’s governorship election in Edo State may be the picture of Governor Godwin Obaseki sitting down in the wee hours of Sunday on the corridor of the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Benin City all alone. Video images […]

In what many may consider as the most provoking development leading to next weekend’s governorship election in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP last Thursday walked away from a peace accord among the parties and candidates. The accord was brokered by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee, NPC. Peace accords have since 2015 […]

The 2015 General Election, despite what many saw as some deficiencies, is, however, generally regarded as the best election of the Fourth Republic since the 1999 elections that gave birth to the present dispensation

For a man who once vowed not to abide in Nigeria should Asiwaju Bola Tinubu emerge as president of Nigeria it could have been tempting to discard the pledge by Chief Bode George not to serve in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Disciplinary Committee that was constituted by the national leadership earlier this week. Just […]

Last Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu hosted the first National Council of State meeting of his administration. The body comprising of former and current heads of the various organs of government, to wit, executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government is meant to provide the president with advice to guide him in the administration […]

As Nigerians ponder over the lessons of the recent protest against bad governance and hunger in the land, it is becoming clear that those who ordinarily should reset the course of governance in the country have not drawn any lesson from the uprising against the status quo. That much was espoused in President Bola Tinubu’s […]

The 10-day protest against bad governance which commenced on Thursday, August 1, 2024, is proving to be about the most effective demonstration by the populace against political actors in recent history. The only rage against the government that compares with it may be the demonstrations against military rule, notably the Anti-SAP riots and then the […]

Nigeria has all of a sudden been taken over by a debate about protest. The frenzy immediately brings to mind the stinging rebuke on the nation by the president of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanne who said that Nigerians love to debate at the expense of the collective good. “You love to debate… But if you look […]