The other day, a friend called and asked, “What is your take on the game of wits panning out between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and current Vice President Yemi Osinbajo?” What he got was […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is a self-styled paragon of integrity and incorruptibility. The same sanctimonious leader is cultivating a legacy of vote buying, without any sense of internal conflict or externally discernible shame. In a move […]
I have been thinking about Jagaban, Bola Ahmed Tinubu lately. I think he deserves an encomium for tipping into the expansive shoes of the sage, Obafemi Awolowo, by forging a united bunch out of disparate […]
Is it possible that the Army brass has turned the Boko Haram insurgency into a full-time money making occupation, wasting the lives of soldiers on the field, while generals make money both in Abuja and […]
Online retailers in Nigeria are defying the tobacco control law and continue to make brisk business selling tobacco and its products to the public through their websites. Checks by PREMIUM TIMES showed that these online […]
The United Nations on Monday criticised Nigeria for failing to tackle human trafficking, after a human rights mission looked at efforts to stamp out the organised trade in people. “What is being done is not […]
SEEKING to rejuvenate its weakened anti-corruption war, the Federal Government has empanelled yet another committee to “monitor and evaluate” the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy. The 17-man committee’s mandate, according to the Attorney-General of […]
An interesting characteristic of politicians is the optimism with which they approach elections, each one believing that he or she would win. I have been following the scramble for the presidential ticket in the 2019 […]
Although there is a geopolitical zone called the North-Central in Nigeria, there has always been an area unofficially known as the Middle Belt in Nigeria. It comprises the Federal Capital Territory and the six states […]
During his tenure as Secretary-General, Kofi Atta Annan frequently reminded the world that “there could be no development without peace, no peace without development, and neither peace nor development without human rights.” That perspective embodied […]
The other day, the Presidency announced, with gusto, that President Muhammadu Buhari had signed Executive Order 6 into law. I was miffed. Executive Order 6 means there have been five earlier Executive Orders! Executive Order […]
I had written an article some weeks ago on the Kemi Adeosun matter titled “Ungolden Silence.” I had said in that piece that it was wrong for Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who is Nigeria’s Minister of […]
It’s a tale of different stokes for different folks. While some communities are daily lamenting the burden of excessive and outrageous billing by electricity distribution companies, thereby seeking to be given pre-paid meters, some communities […]
The rule of law is precisely what it says: It is the rule of lawyers and judges. It is not the rule of presidents, governors and politicians. Generals are, by experience and training, men of […]
I have given this broad portrait to paint a picture of where Nigerian politics is, and to all aspiring office seekers, including the experienced ones, I offer the following simple instructions, cynically, but we must […]
If general elections were meant to determine the person who can best serve a constituency, then a direct primary, in my opinion, will elect the best person who will be most capable of winning a […]
There is something unseemly about the sanctions and the circumstances around the sanctions issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the unfortunate five: MTN Nigeria and four financial institutions. Indeed, there are too […]
In the third week of August 2018, two Black stars took a final bow from the earth after successful careers that made them international figures. One of them, the first to take a bow on […]
Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA reports calls for full industrialisation and value addition development of certain crops as game-changers in the efforts to develop the economy. Cocoa, cashew, palm produce and groundnut were major foreign […]
As the nation marches into another general election, we would like to draw attention for the umpteenth time to the problematic and skewed nature of our Republic, the nature and structure of which are dubious […]
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