Fuji music exponents, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly called Kwam 1, and Abass Akande, popularly called Obesere, have engaged in a war of words over Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos. The bone of contention is a recent […]
A party has a right to pick a candidate of its choice for a general election in its exclusive governorship primary, without being dictated to by intermeddling outsiders and the interloping comentariat, and those outsiders […]
Nobody likes you. You are only liked for what you bring to the table. In politics, your likability is tied to the value of your office or the worth of your pocket. And in Governor […]
THE concerns seem to be coming more from abroad than within: that the country’s human capital development is shockingly low. The latest, from a global study that ranked Nigeria 171 out of 195 countries, in […]
It is faulty to equate the deep loyalty Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu attracts in Lagos as exemplary of ‘Omoluabi loyalty’ or being reflective of the entire Yoruba or South-West populace. Ondo State electorate will argue […]
Asking politicians who are campaigning for electoral offices in 2019 to state their political ideologies may frighten them. Legend says that wearing a beard in First Republic Nigeria disqualified applicants from getting jobs in the […]
The Crippled Giant is a coinage borrowed from Prof. Eghosa Osagae’s classic book, “The Crippled Giant: Nigeria since Independence”. Although I have not read the book, African Studies Review of the tome says it “is […]
While reading the book, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward, something fascinated me. Richard Nixon, former American president and the man at the centre of the Watergate scandal, was facing […]
The Federal Executive Council took the right decision when it suspended the new national carrier project indefinitely. It offered no reasons for its action save for “some strategic reasons,” the Minister of State for Transport, […]
AS Nigeria marks her 58th Independence anniversary today, celebrations that attend such events elsewhere are expected around the country. Though political leaders will give the usual bland and uninspiring speeches to mark a hugely significant […]
There are strong indications that there might be a squabble between the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu and the National Working Committee of the party over its governorship primary election […]
Premise It was to my utter shock on Tuesday September 18, 2018 when it was reported in the newspapers that the Federal Government of Nigeria (in its fiscal strategy paper) is planning a budget […]
The unveiling of Nelson Mandela’s statue the other day at the United Nations headquarters in New York was historic. Coming as part of the decision of the United Nations (UN) in declaring 2019 to 2028 […]
The suffering imposed on the people by the sudden imposition of a warning strike by the Labour Union has temporarily come to a halt. For the people, this may seem like some kind of pyrrhic […]
Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, and founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, are set to join the race to contest the 2019 presidential election against the incumbent, President Muhammadu […]
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Ayodele Adewale, the former chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area in Lagos State, speaks about his successor, his aspiration to become a federal lawmaker under the All Progressives […]
In the early morning biting cold of 23 July 2018, about 10,000 people in Nairobi’s Kibera slum watched in a sleepy haze as their homes and everything they owned were flattened by bulldozers to make […]
As one begins to witness changes even beyond the physical composition in the growing metamorphosis, it whispers promises of freedom but however, Nigeria at 58 raises the question of — if the nation is growing […]
Shortly after the September 22nd, 2018 Osun governorship elections were declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), this writer had resolutely defended that decision and anchored that defence upon the legal framework that undergirded […]
At some point last year, I felt I had found love. Love literally took me to the South-eastern part of Nigeria where I plucked a flower and felt it would be mine forever. The romance […]
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