Politics

One thing most of our governors are adept at is playing god. Once they get elected, they start treating electorates like servants. They become bossy. They easily forget that the people are the ones paying […]

Words they say are cheap and nothing is as sweet as beating up the weeping boy as all, including weaklings suddenly gain strength and bury their own weaknesses in the collective attack. Unfortunately, it bellies […]

Long before the snake gave birth, everybody knew the baby snake will be a long creature. That is why not many are surprised about the grudge fight in Rivers State, five months after the elections. […]

The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah, has been in the news in recent days. Many of the reac­tions to his statements on the television on behalf of the Nigerian Peace Com­mission […]

Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju was governor of Anambra State from 1999 to 2003 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with reporters in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), he faults […]

It’s not exactly on the mark yet, but it would be on September 5. President Muhammadu Buhari will be 100 days in office and the question will be, what has he done for us lately? […]

The recent visit of the National Peace Committee to President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) has generated a lot of buzz from a public that has been re-energised by the president’s approach to national issues in general […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC)’s mantra of ‘Change’ flaunts a supreme theme: that of the remarkable radical – or reformer if you like. Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos State, impressively rose to become the […]

Perversive aura of power We must not grant President Muhammadu Buhari too much comfort. We cannot afford to blink or take our eyes off the ball. Not anymore; not after all the tormenting disappointments that […]

The total boycott of three books launched by former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola by chieftains and governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  has once again brought to the […]

Segun Dokun Odebunmi is a member of the House of Representatives representing Ogo-Oluwa/Surulere federal constituency in Oyo State. In this interview with GBENGA ABEGUNRIN, he spoke on the need for Senator Rashidi Ladoja, Adebayo Alao-Akala […]

Were hypocrisy felonious, jail houses in Nigeria would have no room. We all agree that corruption is the major albatross around Nigeria’s neck and we accuse everyone else but ourselves. Corruption is spoken of as […]

How things have changed. At the time of independence, they drove progress. It was by the name of the premiers of the regions, that citizens spelt relief. Not so anymore. Today, it is from the […]

The House of Representatives may be heading for another crisis when it resumes from its recess on September 29. This is because the Ad Hoc Committee on Standing Orders  raised by the Speaker , Yakubu […]

For a long time, due to the checkpoints and traffic gridlocks these bring on highways and inside our major cities, many like me have hardly travelled. Suddenly, Buhari appointed new service chiefs who came with […]

Nigerians are angry with the senators for rejecting a pay cut as recommended by the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. Prominent opinion leaders expressed shock that the law makers are not bothered about the […]

THERE is no doubt whatsoever that the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency was wasted on a platter by all ramifications. It is also evidential that his regime was the most corrupt, as his ministers and subservient acolytes […]

PROFESSOR Pat Okedinachi Utomi has a problem. It is a huge and intractable problem. And if our guesses are right not even the gods may save him. He is damned almost literally. Pat Utomi writes […]

“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered”. That is the pithy line from the Psalmist. It is found in the very first line of Psalm 32. Behold, there is joy in […]

I make it a point of duty to be respectful of President Olusegun Obasanjo, whether I happen to mention his name in public or in private. I am sure that is part of my respect […]