Politics

Everything in and about Nigeria is in a waiting pattern. Everybody, Nigerians and foreigners alike, are waiting on President Muhammadu Buhari. This pattern is a profoundly sobering lesson. It is also both a risk and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari shocked many Nigerians last October when he announced that he took a loan of N27.5m to buy the All Progressives Congress’ expression of interest and nomination forms for the 2014 presidential primary. […]

Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, seems morphing from the wike wike brag-fest, in his unending battle with Chubuike Amaechi, his predecessor; to a seasoned “curser”, perhaps in office but not yet in power? Or how else […]

Nigeria’s game of politics is too nauseating to percuss; and its government business environment too nasty to peregrinate. For many years, I had switched off Nigeria in my head; the choice to stay back in […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been inching forward in his three-point agenda: securing the nation from terrorists, declaring war on corruption and opening up the economy. After raising serial alarms both at home and abroad about […]

In the past week, the right to alms received a shot in the arm. It was Senator Shehu Sani’s shot at Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Sani supported almsgiving and clobbered Rufai as an anti-revolutionary. […]

Ibrahim Babangida, former military president, on Sunday showered encomium on the late Sani Abacha, who was the country’s head of state between 1993 and 1998. Speaking in Minna, capital of Niger state, during a press […]

There is a famous speech by the former British Prime Minister, iron lady Margaret Thatcher, she gave  at  her  party  conference in 1980: “If our people feel that they are part of a great nation […]

There is no way a judge would spew such banalities on a state chief executive if, indeed, she was not consumed by hate and it is rather a shame that we still have such bigoted […]

Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, talks about former President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential ambition, President Muhammadu Buhari’s corruption probes and religious leadership, in this interview with LEKE BAIYEWU What do […]

The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, slated Monday to decide whether or not to dismiss  the petition that was filed against Governor Nyesom Wike by the All Progressives Congress, APC. […]

The recent expression of worries of members of the National Peace Committee (now re-named the National Peace Council) at the end of a meeting with President Buhari provides a subtle demonstration of the desire to […]

I have not been opportune to hold a public office, but I know a number of people who have and whose experience has not been as pleasant as imagined. There is a lot of assumption […]

“I think what we are concerned about is the process. It is no longer a military regime and under our existing laws, everybody is innocent until proven guilty.” – Bishop Kukah This is a statement credited […]

In his trenchant yet characteristically brilliant critique of Professor Richard Joseph’s concept of prebendalism to explain the monumental corruption that ruined Nigeria’s second republic (1979-1983) and continues to hobble our country’s potentials, Professor EhieduIweriebor comes down […]

I DON’T like Lions. Their hunt bores me stiff. On sighting a prey, they go too swiftly, too brutal and aim for the thyroid. In seconds they break the wind pipe of their prey and pronto, […]

“When you wrestle with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.” In so far as the allegations of paternity are concerned, they are wicked and false. I have no biological children other […]

GOING  by the objective of this piece, one of the articles I wrote some six years back could be described as the first of a two-part piece. The article, entitled ‘Options Before the Opposition’, came […]