Issues/Policy

Caught the last few minutes of the altercation between the spokesmen of Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organizations, Segun Sowumi and Festus Keyamo on ChannelsTV this morning. In dismissing the debt cancellation feat of […]

Last week’s election of former vice president Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has been generating excitement in Nigeria. This is because, among the 12 people who vied for […]

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, is by far the most talked about politician in Nigeria today. He is the foremost politician in the South-West, if not in the […]

Politics is one interesting game in which one’s allegiance shifts along with one’s interests. Hence, it is said that in politics there are no permanent enemies only permanent interests. It is also in a similar […]

The week which ended on Sunday, September 9th, 2018 when I left Nigeria on vacation to the United States was one that I twice faced the horrors of mindless traffic gridlock on Nigerian roads leaving […]

It would be recalled that sometimes in 2017, there was an exchange between the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. This altercation served to […]

Last week, all the political parties were expected to round up on their choices of candidates for next year’s general elections. At the expiration of the deadline, October 7, it was a potpourri of the […]

The business license of erstwhile Skye Bank Plc was summarily revoked last month (September 2018) by Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor. The revocation came about two years after the financial Regulator sacked the Management in […]

In kicking out the current national leadership, we may not get the vote right next year (as we obviously failed to do in 2015). But Nigeria deserves a healthier, more knowledgeable, and more inclusive leader […]

Though it is tragic that the presidential equation would bring Nigerians to this sorry juncture where the choicelessness between the duo of Buhari and Atiku would stare them in the face, other considerations may well […]

By Muhammad Ajah Less than four months to the next general elections, I foresee some weapons, so dangerous, that may be utilized by the opposition to limit the victory changes of the ruling All Progressives […]

And so, Ambode could not be forgiven his ‘sins’ by the godfather. He has been smashed like a gadfly and when the polls open sometime in February next year to pick a governor for Lagos […]

The Ekiti error has now been corrected. The lord of the manor would soon return to the farm and the king of the jungle would return to where he belongs – the jungle. With the […]

As the 2019 general election approaches, the same individuals who have wreaked incalculable havoc on the Nigerian nation are now regrouping and expunging personal disagreements in order to execute a seamless feast on the Nigerian […]

So it was that on the 6th of October 2018 the foundation sets of University of Jos, that is, graduates of years 1979-1983 met in Lagos for a reunion. It was a beautiful time for […]

The drab Nigerian political environment has lightened up. The expected ‘unexpected’ happened. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria was elected at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries held in Port Harcourt recently. It looked […]

Suddenly, what seemed yesterday like a near-comatose PDP is now a resurgent party, buoyed by President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of the man he once vowed would rule Nigeria over his “dead body”. The PDP is […]

That the Igbo are in a political freeze is largely due to their own “sleight of hand”; that they are in disarray is because they never agree. And that they have not had any success […]