A sad mayhem unforeseen: the conflict of two communities in Delta—Okuama and Okoloba—deepened by wanton deaths. The casualties: soldiers and civilians.

While it may not be easy to look a gift horse in the mouth, Tinubu ought to have advised against such name change; it all seems like an act of sycophancy and error that both President Tinubu and Governor Bago can correct; the airport just renamed after Tinubu may one day be renamed after another person

If there is one good example of how government policies have been implemented for political reasons, establishing a Nigerian Army University where the Nigerian Defence Academy exists is a good example of it

NIGERIA’S economic crisis has turned every middling commentator into an expert on economic issues. Among the most voluble are some politicians, opinion moulders and traditional rulers  from the North, who virtually slept through Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in power with hardly a word of criticism except when they felt personally short-changed. The sheer hypocrisy of their […]

OPENING the National Reserve, as the Bola Tinubu administration has decided to, may sound good on paper but it cannot address the on-going food crises in the country. This is not sounding pessimistic but our experience of how the government of President Muhammadu Buhari handled the distribution of palliatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the dodgy manner […]

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 […]