This is the whole point of Obasanjo’s outburst: the traditional institutions symbolised by the traditional rulers have lost their precedence, and so a state governor is superior to a traditional ruler, no matter how highly placed or revered.

THE Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, has given its final word on the presidential election conducted on February 25 after three anxious months. Its word for the petitioners, that is the opposition parties that contested the outcome of that election, has been damning. The five judges who sat on and made pronouncement over this case […]

The dethroned Bongo in his embroidered tunic spoke from a place of fear, confusion and crippling anxiety. It’s not a sight befitting a leader, especially one like Ali Bongo that had held his country and the people of Gabon literally by the throat for nearly one and a half decades.

It was just that the effect of it was very minimal compared to the amount we are told went into sustaining the oil subsidy bogey. The best part of the subsidy money went into the pockets and bank accounts of shadowy players in the oil sector, including oil marketers that are too quick to make Nigerians groan by their Shylock-like ways. 

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Monday 21st August swore into office 45 ministers after an eleventh-hour reassignment of portfolios to four of them. Gboyega Oyetola of the Ministry of Transport, Abubakar Momoh of the Ministry of Youth and Bunmi Tunji-Ojo of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy were respectively reassigned to the Ministry of Marine […]

THIS  column last week supported the overwhelming views of Nigerians that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration should have nothing to do with any kind of direct military intervention in the affairs of Niger under the Abdourahamane Tchiani-led junta. That rejection of force in the restoration of democratic order in Niger was based on the pragmatic […]

THE deadline given by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to the military junta that recently usurped power in Niger to restore the democratic order in that country or be forcefully removed has come and gone. But as far as many Nigerians are concerned, that deadline should have been dead on arrival and […]

Everyone and every organisation with a stake in the country ought to rise to the occasion and engage the present policy makers on the way forward; this is not the time for unnecessary posturing and exhibition of bias towards particular candidates in the name of activism

WHEN President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the removal of the subsidy on petrol in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, most Nigerians supported it and praised him for the decision. The support he received was not because the people enjoyed the pain that came with buying fuel at exorbitant rates. It was not because […]

IF there’s one thing Nigerians seem to be clear on about the proposed measure to ease the immediate harsh effect of the fuel subsidy removal, it is that they are not interested in the conditional cash transfer scheme. Under this plan, the Federal Government is to transfer N8,000 over a six months period to poor […]