Politics

As one who presides over the most populous country in Africa, President Muhammadu Buhari is no doubt an influential man. It is not out of place that millions of people within and outside the country […]

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. The great Martin Luther King, Junior said this much during his days of activism when the world looked elsewhere while America subjected African Americans to all forms of […]

THE National Assembly is a major arm in a democratic dispensation. Indeed, there are three  arms of government as we all know. The Executive which is headed by the president, the legislative headed by the […]

Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope that you found most gratifying, illuminating and helpful. That was two days before your Presidential […]

The gecko thinks if it quits the roof to live in the forest long enough, it will become an alligator. Will practice make the cat roar like a lion? I have seen all sorts of […]

E jo laa ko; a kii ko ija” is, for the Yoruba, one of the fundamental principles of a good fight. Simply put, for a successful fight, the trick is not just to be a […]

Akin Osuntokun`s recent entry on this page captured what the writer termed PDP`s Annus Horribilis. The Latin phrase, annus horribilis, means `horrible year`. Its opposite, annus mirabilis, means `wonderful year`.  The central thesis of Akin`s […]

The one thing the president—or the executive arm of government—shouldn’t do is to hijack the function of the court. Nor should the president and his cohorts be at liberty to decide which verdicts he would […]

On the subject of the President’s media chat, some say they found his declarations “dictatorial. So, allow me to play devil’s advocate and ask: Is a good dictatorship better than a corrupt democracy? In asking […]

•Election to hold February 22 Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra leader Ralph Uwazuruike has announced plans to set up a parallel government in the Southeast and Southsouth. Election will hold […]

‘Yakassai got N63m’ Metuh quizzed  Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the […]

Before I begin this piece, let me sound a caveat that my thoughts herein are not an endorsement of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, that defeated the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 […]

Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope that you found most gratifying, illuminating and helpful. That was two days before your Presidential […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the scale of bombings targeting civilians by Boko Haram is overwhelming and the intelligence service has no information about the condition or location of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by […]

Mallam Adamu Ciroma, journalist, administrator, politician, former minister of different portfolios and erstwhile governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is one of Nigeria’s leading statesmen. Ciroma, who was third in the 1978 presidential […]

The president obviously believes Nigeria can spend its way out of a looming recession at a time we should be deliberately deflating the economy through massive cuts in cost of governance, reducing salaries and allowances […]

Nothing important happened today. Diary entry by King George 111 of England, July 4, 1776 The “mission accomplished” phrase in the title of this piece comes from perhaps the single most embarrassing statement not only of […]

If eloquence or elocution was all that is needed to prove one’s bona fides or demonstrate competence, President Muhammadu Buhari would prove a woeful failure. In his maiden media chat last week, he struggled to […]

The compelling reasons for the current roadshow seem however to be (a) the gloomy revenue picture for the coming years has unnerved the federal government and it needs a victim for sacrifice to assuage Nigerians […]