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 […]