Politics

My Dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a […]

Republican Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling, in response to a question about whether he supported greater law enforcement scrutiny of Muslim Americans after the Orlando mass shooting. […]

On Saturday before last, Saturday Punch carried a noteworthy interview of Senator Femi Okurounmu regarding President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance. Okurounmu’s views were expectedly partisan. What would one expect of a Peoples Democratic Party loyalist and […]

Of course, the Hobbesian state of nature is a hypothetical scenario invented by Hobbes to anchor his theory concerning the origin of civil society. But it might become real in Nigeria if the federal government […]

We need an impartial  body  that  would proffer  genuine ways  to  properly reconfigure Nigeria  from what it presently is – a totally unworkable and, therefore, not working  ‘geographical expression’ as Chief Obafemi Awolowo called it. […]

On the whole, nothing had significantly changed about Rotimi Amaechi. He was still himself; unable to contract his expansive ego onto a back seat and listen to others speak sensibly in Uyo last week. He […]

This article is a response to Dele Momodu’s article titled “Before They Mislead President Buhari”. The article like most of the writer’s recent articles is a subtle castigation of Buhari’s administration and support for the […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Samuel Ikon (Etinam/Nsit Ibom/Nsit Ubium, Cross River) alleged to have requested hotel parking attendants in a US hotel to solicit prostitute for him said yesterday that his […]

The Donald Trump campaign on Saturday released its first “emergency” fund-raising email, in response to an ad blitz from the Hillary Clinton campaign. “Right now we’re facing an emergency goal of $100,000 to help get […]

Some senators on Saturday demanded immunity and life pension for presiding officers of the National Assembly after their tenure in office. They made the proposals at a-two day retreat on Constitution Review organised by the […]

Mr. Godwin Obaseki has won the Edo State gubernatorial primary of the All Progressives Congress held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital. Details later…

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she doesn’t want to be Donald Trump’s 2016 running mate. Rice, who was also a national security adviser in the Bush administration, frequently has been mentioned as a possible […]

Penultimate Thursday, the Federal Government inaugurated the Federal Government’s National Home Grown School Feeding Programme. At the time of the inauguration, President Muhammadu Buhari was on his second vacation for the year. He was in […]

The idea of a weak Leviathanis obviously an oxymoron. I like the way the biblical book of Job describes the monstrous sea monster known as Leviathan. As Eugene Peterson’s The Message Bible graphically describes Leviathan, […]

When we say there is no dull moment in Nigeria, some people think we needlessly exaggerate happenings here. When an international body rated us as a country with the happiest people on earth some few years ago, those […]

If Mr Donald Trump has his way and becomes the next American President come November, ‘a big, big wall’ will spring up to divide Mexico and the United States of America. Mexico’s economy is on […]

I have tied the performance of our democracy to the econo­my because the two complement each other and determine the overall progress of any nation. Poverty has posed one of the fiercest problems facing developing […]

Let me first of all be quick to say that, I know two things that may come to many minds while reading this piece; firstly, the choice of the heading, and secondly what is new […]