When I sat down to do this column I meant, that is, I intended to dwell on what I carried for sometime in the sub-continent of my sub-consciousness as our country’s cruelty. I was going […]
A call by the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that the huge amount of money allocated to the federal and state governments in the name of security votes be banned is long overdue. Apart from being […]
It was the legendary Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, a former Presidential candidate in the Second Republic, who made the plea for change in one of his numerous manifesto speeches: “Fellow Nigerians, the country is in a […]
Dear Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), As you spend your third year in illegal detention since December 2015, I am using this memo to intimate you about the brutal assassination of former Chief of Defence Staff, […]
The first thing to say about Amnesty International’s Report: Setting the Record Straight is to thank the organisation for confirming a fact stated time and again by President Muhammadu Buhari that the conflict between herders […]
The Lagos chapter of Accord Party has adopted the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),Mr Jimi Agbaje, for the 2019 election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the party endorsed and […]
Anthony Joshua, world heavyweight boxing champion, has been presented with an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to sport. The investiture marks the latest accolade Joshua has […]
To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born, a time to die… Alex Sabundu Badeh was born into a family of peasant farmers […]
Eleven years after Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos state, and Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 election, were locked in political rivalry, the camps of both politicians […]
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a child of a peculiar circumstance and that peculiarity clearly reflects in its sloganeering. ‘APGA bu nke anyi’; or, ‘Nkea bu nke anyi’ has a very long history, […]
In the face of the shortened sentencing of two intermediaries involved in the corruption scandal that stained the acquisition of Eni and Shell of the Opl 245 licence in Nigeria, the government’s response was not […]
On February 16th, 2019, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect a new President. For 58 years, the Nigerian nation has failed to live up to its full potential. While the Nigerian people are […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the leadership of its current chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has been pushing vigorously to ensure Nigerians in the Diaspora got to exercise their franchise during elections in Nigeria. […]
Musicians of the hip-hop genre are becoming prophetic and doing their best to read the mood of the country. They not only reproduce individual anxieties in musical form but also embellish institutional failures and speak […]
The press has an uncanny capacity for latching on to a word that captures socio-political tremors in a country. The word or phrase it chooses says something about the winners and the losers in an […]
By any measure known to observers of any government, the Buhari administration is a dismal failure. Let me once again apologise to Nigerians that in 2011 and 2015 I was a fanatical promoter of Buhari. […]
Inflation jumped to 11.28 percent in November from the previous position of 11.26 percent. The consequences of not properly managing the fearsome beast are either to be voted in or out of government because of […]
ALL hopes of inculcating credibility into the electoral system now hang delicately in the balance. Controversially, President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to assent to the Electoral Act 2018 amendment bill, which was passed by the […]
A global anti-corruption alarm bell revved recently when the United Nations sensitised the world to the danger corruption poses to development. Marking the event in Abuja, the United Nations Secretary-General, represented by Oliver Stozpe, the […]
MANAGERS of Nigeria’s oil-reliant economy should by now be bracing themselves for what looks like an inevitable bumpy ride on the back of the current free fall in the global prices of oil. When the […]
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