In his latest tirade about the state of the nation (clear evidence of aggravated trauma following the gut punch he received from Abuja when the Senate rejected his nomination as a ministerial nominee), Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and election-time supporter of Bola Tinubu, has described the Tinubu administration as the worst Federal […]

Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, could not have been wrong when he said that the Nigerian Bar Association was hypocritical in its opposition to the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State. He attributed this to the loss of the monetary support the NBA was to get as sponsorship of its 2025 […]

Opposition elements again took to the streets this week under the aegis of a so-called movement to take back the rights of Nigerians to economic and social freedoms. They were in specific terms demanding the rights of Nigerians to economic empowerment which they believe has been eroded by the economic policies of the Bola Tinubu-led government […]

Nigerians started this week on a very grim note. More than a dozen people, precisely 16 Hausa travellers on their way from Port Harcourt to celebrate the Eid holiday in Kano, were intercepted by a group of local vigilante operatives in Uromi, a town in Edo State already under the siege of kidnappers and so-called […]

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is back at his old pastime of canvassing an African approach to global practices. For those who need a reminder, it was he who said that an African approach should be followed in dismantling apartheid in the heydays of the struggle for majority rule in South Africa. Obasanjo called for the use […]

The fight between Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senator Godswill Akpabio looks like a case of ‘see finish’, to state it in local parlance. Her familial relationship with the President of the Senate (only they and, perhaps, their respective families know the true nature of this relationship) appears to have undermined the respect she has for […]

Since the ruckus that followed the night club comment in July last year during which he scolded her for speaking out of turn during a session in the upper legislative chamber, it has been clear that it was only a matter of time before things came to a head between the President of the Senate, Godswill […]

A major point of debate that came out of the publication of General Ibrahim Babangida’s memoir centred around an event in which from his own admission he was just a distant observer. This was the January 15, 1966 coup that claimed an entire generation of political leaders, civilian and military, from parts of the country other […]

The publication and formal public presentation of a former military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida’s memoir, A Journey in Service, last week has expectedly opened up conversations and debates around the eight years rule of the retired dictator. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, now 83 and wheel chair-bound, also used the occasion to raise money for a presidential […]

Nnamdi Kanu, as I previously stated, is a self-proclaimed self-determination agitator but his ways and utterances are those of a separatist. Not only does he want a separate Biafra nation, his Biafrans are to have nothing to do with Nigerians of other ethnicities. While they could have relations with or even annex other smaller groups […]

Senator Adams Oshiomole’s frank allegation that retired military generals are behind the many cases of illegal mining in the country came across to many Nigerians as earth-shaking. But in fact, the senator said nothing new. He only repeated what others in the know have said and what many in government, including some of our present and […]

Now the Nigerian Governors’ Forum have warmly embraced the Tax Reform Bills, one hopes the likes of Bala Muhammed, the Bauchi State governor and Ali Ndume, the Senator representing Borno South, will quit their barefaced politicking and unnecessary self-promotion in the name of defending the interest of the north. After the avoidable controversy that was […]

The Yoruba have a saying that chickens do not feed on each other’s entrails (Edi? ki j?`fun ara w?n). But that does not apply to the obidients, followers of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections. They claim membership of a so-called movement that is basically a simulacrum, existing  mostly in […]

No Nigerian old enough to know what the times say will forget 2024 in a hurry. It was a frightful year; the year when all the negative effects of the policies President Bola Tinubu had put in place to address the country’s many problems were most jarring in their effect. The pump price of petrol (the […]

In physical terms and, perhaps, its sheer lack of social character and cohesion, Nigeria has been described memorably as a mere geographical expression. But as an anthropomorphised social formation, she could well be compared to a woman, victim of multiple rapes and mental torture, that is eventually shot and left for dead by a deserted […]