Politics

Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, an APC stalwart, has just become the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. According to news reports, his emergence was preceded by weeks of tense horse-trading and negotiation between rival factions […]

‘Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so’ — Charles de Gaulle The high-pitched political temperature in the country is subsiding. And […]

SINCE President Muhammadu Buhari returned from the United States (US) trip, the question on the lips of many Nigerians is: after the visit, what next? Besides, they are eager to know the policy direction of […]

There’s  a growing, observable trend since President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration began on May 29, it is the effort that has gone to discredit the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. My taking on this issue […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to America to see President Barack Obama was quite obviously the most controversial foreign trip taken by a Nigerian leader in recent history. It was famous for its jamboree atmospherics, though […]

EVERY society has its stock of critics and cynics. Quite often, the former are preferred to the latter because in the course of their criticism, some critics would throw in alternatives or proffer solutions to […]

  Yesterday Justice Oloyede Folahanmi, a judge of the Osun State High Court, would have made history for the second time as the first judge to testify before a legislative committee on why she believed […]

So I want to say particularly to the young people here today, Kenya is on the move. Africa is on the move. You are poised to play a bigger role in this world, as the […]

The worst-case scenario for Africa in 2050 is more of the same Africa of 2015. However, the more realistic prospect lies somewhere between that and my utopia. Thirty-five years in the life of any human […]

Parliamentary forgery — geez, isn’t that a violent contradiction in terms?  Parliamentary language is the best of language.  Parliamentary conduct is the best of conduct. So, parliamentary immunity is fair exchange for parliamentary language and […]

I AM interested in  President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the United States last week not because of the over N2 billion allegedly spent or the long retinue of aides that tagged along with the official delegates. […]

Some things are above partisan politics and this is one of them. Regardless of whichever political party we belong to we must all join forces and support the fight against Boko Haram. We must do […]

AMERICA has long been regarded as Nigeria’s strategic ally. In fact, Nigeria has essentially been modelled after the USA. When oil boom derailed our economy in the 1970s and 1980s, we set out to transfer […]

Incontestably, politics in Nigeria at all levels and in every political party is based mostly on personal and inter-personal interests and considerations. In fact, hardly do people who enter politics do so with the objective […]

Those who hate history and have discouraged our schools from making it a compulsory course of study in our secondary schools should follow the interplay between Sambo Dasuki and Buhari’s men. For many, it has […]

DAVID Runciman in his Confidence Trap, an interesting analysis of democracy’s toil through the prism of de Tocqueville’s reading of America’s democracy in the 19th century, underlines the views of Tocqueville on the advantage of […]

Yesterday: “I must say that this historic development (Tambuwal’s defection to APC with Speakership) means that our democracy is growing by the day and it is dynamic…. We think that having the head of the […]

When Tambuwal emerged as speaker then ACN, now APC said it was democracy. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride and move on. A leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere and a top […]

The just-concluded four-day official visit of President Mohammadu Buhari to the United States has not only secured America’s endorsement of the President’s administration but also opened a myriad of social, economic and political prospects for […]

On the scale of official grandeur and hospitality, President Muhammadu Buhari’s official visit to Washington this week ranks second on the scale of Washington’s hospitality to Nigerian leaders. The first was the official visit of […]