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 […]