Politics

History is irrepressible. She is impossible to cage. Bury history a million times. She springs back to life each time ever more vibrant and resilient. With the collapse of communism in the late 1980s, Eurocentric […]

Without any iota of self-delusion, it is easy to say that Nigeria is in a bad shape. Everywhere you go, you meet hapless citizens singing lamentation songs with plastic laugher grafted on their faces. The […]

We have been plagued in the last two weeks with conflicting tales of what happened on and before the coup day, January 16 1966. While some are busy selling untruths, some claim they are refraining […]

Posterity beckons on patriotic minds within the different opposition camps, therefore, to unite towards the path to a true democratic culture. Instead of the maddening rush to the ruling party, it is time to explore […]

This last week, Chris Araga, a United Kingdom-based Nigerian, with whom I grew up in Kwara State was distressed about news coming from home and the way Nigerians reacted to it. Araga is one Nigerian […]

The Nigerian government has concluded plans to declare some top officials of the Goodluck Jonathan administration wanted, in connection with several ongoing corruption investigations. Security sources aware of the plans told PREMIUM TIMES that although […]

NIGERIA is a country of the incredible. The high level of criminality that defines much of what makes ours an incredible polity is traceable to the leadership of the country. I say this in the […]

What’s the meaning of a celebratory international award when the recipient is not considered award-worthy at home? Former President Goodluck Jonathan was decorated as 2015 International Person of the Year byAfrican Sun Times. After receiving […]

ABUJA—Amid resumed bombing of oil installations in the Niger Delta region, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, vowed to deal with oil thieves, abductors and vandals of oil and gas pipeline. This was even as he stated […]

A former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope has urged the federal government to negotiate with pro- Biafra agitators in the interest of peace and progress of Nigeria. While describing himself as a loyal and […]

In 1984, the late Gani Fawehinmi, SAM, SAN, spectacularly broke ranks with his legal commune.  That clan dotted on “due process” — no crime! — and distanced itself from the post-2nd Republic corruption trials, before […]

The refusal of ex-militant, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, to honour the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as well as the summons of the court is an affront on the […]

The people were led to believe, and soon appeared to have believed, that the Peoples Democratic Party was the only party in town or the only party that mattered. Before long, the PDP deluded itself […]

William the Bastard (or more courtly, William the  Conqueror: ruled 1066-1087), was the first Norman king of England.  Though dubbed “illegitimate” because he was sired by the unmarried Robert I, Duke of Normandy, after a […]

Fifty-five people who were government ministers, state governors, public officials, bankers and businessmen stole 1.34 trillion naira ($6.8 billion) from Nigeria’s public purse over a seven-year period, the information minister said on Monday. Endemic corruption […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has stated that 55 Nigerians have stolen over N1.34 trillion from the country’s treasury from 2006 to 2013. Speaking at a press conference on Monday in Abuja, […]

History shone like a headlight. It did not happen alone in Lagos, where the life of Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, swam under searchlights. Samuel Akintola of the acerbic wit also roared from the grave. In the […]