Issues/Policy

Will Ada, Jumbo-Ochigba’s wife of eight years and her two children get justice? Or will the IGP sweep it under the carpet and move on? Will this be the watershed moment when the services get […]

Several victims of police harassment recounted their ordeals in the hands of the officers at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday. The press conference, organised by the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria, focused […]

Oshiomhole’s eloquence of ignorance in elucidating the dogma of party supremacy becomes even more sinister in the reality that the APC, like every other party, is lacking in both ideology and coherent pragmatic ideas for […]

It should have been sometime in December 2017 or so when bulldozers and other heavy-duty construction equipment moved in to the heartlands of Agege, a densely populated suburb of Lagos, pulling down structures that had […]

Like the drunk who habitually forgets the ignominy that his indulgence brings on him, the ruling All Progressives Congress is about to tread on the path of confusion that finished it before it started out […]

Recorded without parental consent, Success’ defiance and desire not to miss a minute of learning got the attention of celebrities, other Nigerians, her local government honchos and the state governor. Consequently, her fortunes swelled beyond […]

The 2019 general election is the most expensive poll ever organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It incurred an additional N69 billion than the 2015 elections. However, when teeming Nigerian electorate were preparing […]

Deride him as much as you can and want. Hate him as many in the opposition have adopted to. Even some have chosen to see him as a trouble maker who is despised and criticised […]

Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Lagos Island are the three main islands that people loosely refer to as Island. The three of them had been there for a long time before the Lekki Axis sprang to […]

Anybody who thinks that the 2019 elections are over is surely a stranger in Nigeria, or is living in a dream-land or is being mischievous. The 2019 elections are far from over! Like all Nollywood […]

Despite the apprehension and heightened expectations about the 2019 elections, a constant feature was that at the end of the day, there would be only one winner. For the first time in Nigeria’s electioneering history, […]

Towards the end of 2017, a colleague of mine based in Abuja called and briefed me of an Efcc matter involving his client who is based in South Africa. He informed me that the client […]

Nigeria is an exciting country we celebrate mediocrity! We are in the habit of solving symptoms of a problem instead of transforming the root causes! We keep complaining that we are not making progress as […]

As the race to who succeed Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was gathering momentum sometimes in 2018, the names of some politicians were still found wanting and scarce in the political space. Many were […]

After the money and the muscling, come the lawyers. Win or lose, the election war chest is incomplete without funds for the likely legal battle afterwards. The legal option can redefine winning and losing in […]

The 2019 general election in Nigeria has been described by international and local observers, stakeholders, direct participants and the electorate themselves as a “disappointment”, “ a bad day for democracy”, “a step back from whatever […]

Election in Nigeria is a battle of fists rather than a game of wits. The nation has gotten almost nothing right since independence and still cannot conduct free, fair and credible elections. The insatiable thirst […]

Nigerians keep complaining that the young lad Tani who’s a now a good chess player and his parents could not have fled Nigeria due to Boko Haram terrorists because their names suggest they’re Yoruba and […]

I have said it so many times that when Nigerian politicians converge to map out plans for acquiring power which, in most cases, practically translates to securing unlimited access to unearned wealth, they do not […]