CHINUA Achebe famously told the world that the trouble with Nigeria is purely and squarely one of leadership. For him the leadership deficit- the failure of vision among the first post-independence generation of Nigerian leaders, the so-called founding fathers of Nigeria, is the reason why Nigeria has failed both as a state and a nation. In […]

THE upsurge in banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery that culminated with the killing of three monarchs and abduction of school children and their teachers in Ekiti State is a dangerous sign of what may have been the orchestration of persons and groups bent on causing acrimony not only in different parts of the country but particularly […]

HE probably doesn’t realise this yet but if reactions to his comments on the relocation of some units of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, back to Lagos are anything to go by, Ali  Ndume, the Senator from Borno South, is already living in the past. Senator Ndume, as […]

AT least two former ministers in the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Babatunde Raji Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi, respectively of the Works and Housing, and Transportation ministries, have been commenting on what life has been like for them since they left office about eight months ago.  These two former ministers, it should be noted, were also governors who […]

IN the last one week since the suspension of Betta Edu following the reports of sleaze in the ministry she supervises as minister, a lot has happened that required the action of President Bola Tinubu. As far as that goes, he appears to have checked the right boxes, winning him the praise of even some of […]

There are many Nigerians, if asked, who would say that there are better ways President Bola Tinubu could have handled the scandals in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. But such Nigerians should  also be ready to admit that the President has done the least he could and should in the circumstances by not […]

Nigerians probably don’t need any soothsayers to tell them that this might be a difficult year, if they are to judge by their experience of 2023. The last two years have been among the toughest in the annals of this country. Everything that could go wrong with the country and Nigerians as a people appear […]

From the way some Nigerians, especially supporters of Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State have been commenting on and reacting to the agreement brokered by President Bola Tinubu between him and his estranged godfather and predecessor in office, Nyesom Wike, any cursory follower of the political situation in Rivers State would be excused to think […]

The student seems to have learned a lot at the feet of his master. This seems to be the case between Nyesom Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, and his protege, the current governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara. Until a few weeks ago, it didn’t look as if anything could go wrong or come […]

In the last six months or thereabout, it has become customary for Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and his sidekick, Professor Usman Yusuf, to periodically launch unprovoked attacks on the government of President Bola Tinubu. These attacks are often veiled as patriotic interventions in the affairs of the country. But in fact, a look at the statements that […]

LAGOS is once again riding the crest of national discussion as the age-long controversy about its foundation, birth and growth as Nigeria’s number one city and melting pot has been reignited. Within a space of just a week there have been at least two major claimants to the founding and or development of Lagos, aside thousands […]

Until he made the front page of major news outlets again last week with his advocacy of an African-style democracy, former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, had remained in relative limbo after his attempts to rally the opposition to rise against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president failed to gain traction in March this year. That […]

THERE’S a new song that is fast spreading in the land. It is loud and often to be heard among a disaffected segment of the population that is increasingly synonymous with those opponents of the present All Progressives Congress, APC-led government that lost the last presidential election. Their grievance which has since morphed into an […]

In the end it was Hope Uzodimma, Usman Ododo amd Douye Diri who emerged victorious in the just-concluded governorship election in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. Clearly, the governing parties in all the three states that participated in this so-called off-season elections were set for victory and eventually won. There were allegations of irregularities quite […]

It is obvious that some Nigerians don’t see anything good about the country; they cannot bear to hear any good thing about the president and would go just to any length to show that the country is headed downhill