On Saturday, March 29, 2025, Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, celebrated his 73rd official birthday. It was his second birthday anniversary in office as Nigeria’s leader. Beyond the euphoria of celebration and effusive outpouring of real or pretentious goodwill which is normal for a person of his high status, we hope he took out time […]

The jailbreak reported on Monday, March 24, 2025 at the Koton Karfe Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kogi State, has brought the issue of security at our various correctional centres to the front burner again. The 253 custodial centres of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, have experienced many jailbreaks over the years, but the Koton Karfe […]

Since the return of democracy in 1999, sleaze has always been seen as the second shadow of our National Assembly. During the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senators were regularly induced to change their leadership, which resulted in the emergence of four Senate Presidents between 1999 and 2003. Large sums of money were moved […]

On March 18, 2025, the House of Representatives finally passed the highly contentious tax reform bills sponsored by President Bola Tinubu to upgrade our tax laws. All was set for the Senate to do the same, but for the distractions occasioned by the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State and the “sexual harassment” […]

It is very unfortunate that the need for posthumous recognition of Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the Chief Electoral Umpire of the acclaimed June 12, 1993 general elections, has been reduced to a tribal or sectional mess. Following calls from well-meaning Nigerians, including this newspaper, for the naming of the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral […]