With the inauguration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, yesterday, at the Eagle Square, all eyes are on the 10th National Assembly, NASS, which, when inaugurated, will complete the installation of the Tinubu regime. The Senate and the House of Representatives, HOR, will choose from among themselves those to serve as […]

THE long-awaited Inauguration Day 2023 has arrived! Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Eagle Square, Abuja. Today is also a public holiday to mark the change of batons at the federal and state levels. After today’s fanfare, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima […]

THREE days hence, Monday, May 29, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Eagle Square, Abuja. It has been a very harrowing time for the ordinary people who have had very little to smile about. A president who swept into office in 2015, having benefited from […]

THE resurrected failed Abuja CCTV contract scandal is just another evidence of how corruption and indolence among public officeholders have led to the current state of state failure. Following the upsurge of insecurity in Abuja, the President Goodluck Jonathan administration approved the contract for the installation of Close Circuit Television, CCTV, in strategic parts of […]

ON Monday, May 22, 2023, Nigerians glowed with pride as the long-awaited Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company finally opened its doors for business. To show how significant the event was, President Muhammadu Buhari led five other African presidents to unveil the gargantuan project. The Refinery boasts intimidating credentials. It is the largest single-train refinery in […]

MANY well-meaning Nigerians heaved sighs of relief when the Federal Government announced in April 2023 its decision to postpone the proposed national population census. The exercise, which was conceived five years earlier, was billed for March 29, 2023. It was initially shifted to April 2 and finally to May 3, 2023 before the outright indefinite […]

THE debate over whether a new president should be inaugurated on May 29, 2023 while the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, is yet to rule on the February 25, 2023 presidential election is still raging. Meanwhile, the state pushes aggressively ahead with inauguration preparations. The presidential running mate of the Labour Party, LP, Senator Yusuf […]

THE altercation between musician Seun Kuti and a policeman in uniform on the Third Mainland Bridge was one of the main dramas of the past weekend which was the talk of the town and the social media. Enraged Seun, a son of the Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was caught on camera hectoring the unarmed […]

THE outgoing Muhammadu Buhari regime has surprisingly maintained aloofness to the allegation that the People’s Republic of China is indirectly involved in the sponsorship of terrorists, especially in the terror-torn North. On April 15, 2023, The Times, a UK-based daily, published an exclusive story alleging that Chinese nationals were involved in bribing some Jihadi terrorist […]

THE calls for the live telecast of proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, are in line with the need to bring back some of the lost faith and confidence of Nigerians in our institutions of public governance. Apart from the two main opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, […]

THE barring of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, from imposing fines on electronic media stations came as a big relief and a major victory for the media and the broadcast sector in particular. Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on May 10, 2023, told the broadcasting regulator that it had no power […]

THE argument for restructuring, devolution of powers or true federalism is based on the need for Nigeria to be weaned from its unfolding experience of dictatorial control under colonial bondage and military impunity. We are still strongly tied down to the unproductive centralised command of our economy simply because it appears to benefit a few […]

On Saturday, May 6, 2023, the Director General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, officially declared the end of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) as a public emergency. However, it is not yet Uhuru, as the disease still claimed a life every three minutes as of last week. This comes to 480 per […]

WE are strongly opposed to the spending of the $800 million World Bank petrol subsidy removal palliative loan by the outgoing Muhammadu Buhari regime. No credible argument can support the squandering of this gargantuan fund by a regime that has less than three weeks to vacate power. What we expect President Buhari and his officials […]

PRESIDENT-elect, Bola Tinubu, honoured Governor Nyesom Wike’s invitation to commission some projects in Rivers State last week, and a friendly banter between them threw up the question of what must be done to sustainably care for our federal roads. Wike, who will vacate office on 29th of this month, had tabled a request in advance […]