Nigerians spent last weekend celebrating Eid el Fitri. As is to be expected in these times of heightened political activities, ahead of the party primaries and the emergence of candidates for various positions in next year’s general election, Nigerian politicians, it is emerging, used the period to strategise for the battles ahead. Religious festivals, conferment of […]

Yesterday President Bola Tinubu began a two-day state visit to the United Kingdom. He was received with his wife, Oluremi, by King Charles III at the Windsor Castle. It’s been nearly four decades, precisely 37 years, since the last Nigerian leader made a state visit to our colonial lords. That was Ibrahim Babangida, a military dictator […]

When the war in the Gulf region started a couple of weeks ago, all Nigerians thought of was how many more dollars the country would be earning from each barrel of crude oil sold in the international market. Our lives are tied to the prices of oil, to which everything else we do is tied. If […]

With the current Nigerian politicians, each week, if not each day, comes with its own drama. After their comprehensive defeat in the Abuja municipal election and the bye-election in Rivers and Kano (and I say this without any sense of triumphalism- I had neither horse in the race nor do I care who won or lost […]

If or when Nigeria becomes a one-party state, Nigerians should hold today’s opposition politicians and their civil society organisations enablers responsible. That is the concluding thought behind the title of this week’s talking point. That being said, Nigeria is not and does not look poised to become a one-party state as the opposition that continues to […]