The decision of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to wage a legal challenge against the proclamation of President Muhammadu Buhari the winner of the February 23, 2019, presidential election […]
Gbenga Daniel, former director-general of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, says he will never abandon the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate. Daniel, two-term governor of Ogun state, had resigned his membership of the PDP on […]
Olawale Folorunso and Bode Sowunmi who were with me and who had been listening to the argument over the proposed recruitment of Eshu as a polling agent eventually intervened. Bode Sowunmi wanted to know if […]
…nonetheless, it is impossible to deny the shadow of Karma now engulfing Okorocha. Some eight years ago, he too barely waited for then Governor Ikedi Ohakim to write his hand-over notes before bombarding banks with […]
The senate has passed the bill raising the national minimum wage to N30,000. The upper legislative chamber passed the bill after adopting the report of its ad hoc committee on the national minimum wage at […]
One evening in early September last year, Pius Adesanmi, telephoned me frantically from his base in Ontario. He had been calling for days and due to my excessively busy schedule at the time and the […]
Legal luminary and the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has once again brought to the fore the issue of what the minimum educational qualification for people seeking to be president, […]
The contests for various positions in the 2019 general elections were extremely viciousin in many places. Whether for the executive or legislative positions, the contestants acted as if their lives depended on it. Or better […]
Dear Chief Tinubu, The backpage of your The Nation of Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the FORGED name “Segun Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has un-paused the button on […]
Four people have been rescued from the building which collapsed at Egerton Square, Oke Arin, Lagos Island, on Monday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) announced this in a statement. “The building had been […]
Why do good people die? Why are they always in a hurry to leave us? I have been searching everywhere for answers to these questions but no clues have come up yet. When good people […]
LAST week’s collapse of a three-storey building in the Ita Faji area of Lagos in which 20 persons died is the latest testimonial of the constant failure that defines the Nigerian state of affairs. The […]
I was ruminating on the death of democracy which the recently concluded elections in Nigeria represent when the sad news on Sunday came to me from Bola Akanbi that my friend and brother, Professor Pius […]
Last week, a former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, added his voice to the litany of pleas from diverse stakeholders urging the state government to demolish structurally unfit buildings in the state. This call […]
In the middle of last month, specifically February 12, 2019, when the nation was engrossed in the preparations for the national elections, the National Bureau of Statistics released the Fourth Quarter economic performance report for […]
The 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. But their ripples are very much around, especially the underwhelming performance of the federal ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the South […]
I do not envy the people of Sokoto state at all. Before their very eyes, the powerful turned the hand of their electoral clock backwards. They voted on March 9 for a governor but got […]
Following his re-election for a second term in office, those who have always held the belief that President Muhammadu Buhari is Nigeria’s messiah have found added ammunition to further promote this view. The mammoth crowds […]
Back in 2012, SLS, now the Emir of Kano, consented that I should help publish, in book form, a compendium of critical essays (irreverent outpourings) written by him, over a number of past years. It […]
The military has no business supervising elections and arresting electoral offenders. But how can elections be conducted in a gang land where the police generally fear to thread? If the military is removed from the […]
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