Social media/internet freedom is a basic human right. It is unalienable. In the pool of freedoms, it is as basic as the right to exist. Take...
‘’It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,’’ a source in the thick of things told me regarding the ‘’arrest’’...
We have studied the position put out in the public domain by Senator Magnus Ngei Abe who represented the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National...
The massive macro-financial shock caused by Covid-19 has continued to ravage the global economy putting all systems and nations under severe financial instability never seen in...
The wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, cuts the image of a strong-willed First Lady quite unlike her predecessors in the ‘office’ constitutionally unsanctioned and...
How much progress has Nigeria made with its ethnic-motility politics? Since 1999, we have had presidents of different ethnic extractions – Yoruba, Fulani, and Ijaw –...
The dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in the recent time seems to...
I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly. It is a run-off-the-mill practice, which...
Recently in Accra, Ghana, an anonymous Ghanaian businessman reportedly led some armed men into the premises of the Nigerian Embassy and bulldozed some structures under construction...
In the piece, Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius...
Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow. She said her husband was ‘’trashed’’...
Just like a pendulum which swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, the chairmanship position of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has been...
Rape is a moral crime in every decent society. Raping any woman is morally repugnant and no reason can ever be adduced to atone for the...
D’Banj is my friend and we have spent so many beautiful moments together. Last time, I was with him in his then Lekki house, he asked...
These are obviously not the best times for Nigeria and Nigerians. The pervasive state of anomie doesn’t give room for any form of joy or smile...
This year, there was some feeling of nostalgia about May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. When a few persons called me to ask if there were...
Penultimate week the ‘powerful’ news went viral online eliciting concerns already expressed by concerned Nigerians to the effect that President Muhammadu Buhari does not have his...
Everybody around me, including majority of the people on The Duke Summit have given up on this Nigeria. But I will be carrying my big head...
There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has a rape culture. Virtually everyday, women and girls of various ages are under threat of being abused...
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), escaped the axe by the gators last week. He was nearly fired. The EFCC...
All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the cusp of an implosion. The crisis in the party has reached a frightening crescendo. It has been a gradual...
The widow of the expired military kleptocrat, Gen. Sani Abacha, Maryam, recently ‘resurrected’ from many years of political wilderness by going public on the billions of...
The gruesome murder of George Floyd, an African American, while handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white police officer,...
This year’s Democracy Day celebration seems to have given birth to another “beautiful bride” in the nation’s political space as political parties continue to woo Governor...
Rural settlements in Nigeria used to be one of the safest and the most peaceful places to live. Such that, you feel safe to mingle with...
Color line was created in the 1600 by laws in Virginia to divide and conquer people along the “racial” line. It may have been shattered or...
The Nigerian national constitution gives ‘dictatorial’ powers to not only the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic but generously to the...
One of the many contraptions that have defied contrivance and evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of...
Retired Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, the former military Administrator of old Kaduna State was lucid, diplomatic and patriotic in a recent memo, nay open letter, he...
While the government continue to combat the global pandemic which has claimed the lives of over 400, 000 people worldwide and more than 300 in Nigeria,...
Just waking up to figures showing plus 12,000 infection rate and a plus 300 death rate throwing me back into the effective panic I found myself...
The Nigerian reggae superstar, Majekodunmi Fasheke, better known as Majek Fashek, died recently in New York, USA, in his sleep. Though the cause of death was...
If the news of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday 3rd June 2020, denying ever writing any letter for...
If there is a sector in storming water, it is the oil and gas where the pandemic wrought shocking havoc. Top officials throughout month of April...
The cavalcade of insecurities and maelstrom of emotions presently wrenching every corner of Northern Nigeria is frightfully execrable. The region has sunk steeply into the abyss...
The recent current of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has surged tremendously in Nigeria – a country in the thrall of its own unique kind...
The United Sates of America is doubtlessly a great nation that is unique in many ways. She has a unique President named Donald Trump(et). I call...
While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal...
The consensus around the world is that the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) would provoke commonsense among Nigerian leaders to harness the full potential of...
The pressing problem most African families are dealing with at home and abroad is how to ameliorate the hidden and open attacks against them by constituted...
In everything in life there is positive and negative sides. The positive side of our existence individually could be said to be when we were born....
Today officially marks 5 years of General Buhari’s in power, and I would have allowed this day of infamy to go by but for the slanderous...
One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ‘’promoting and supporting’’ democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of...
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, government has continue to roll out different palliative measures in order to cushion the effect of the hardship occasioned by the...
I was awakened this morning by a post. The person had announced gleefully that the Naira was on a free fall having dropped to N500 in...
The Buhari administration did not prime itself for leadership but for power. The regime has titillated more attention from controversies stoked by internecine scrimmages than from...
Quite unlike the richest woman in Africa, Isabel Dos Santos, who was at the center of ‘Luanda Leaks’, now facing fraud charges in Angola with her...
The primacy of the media in any society is indubitable. The media is the iron curtain between tyranny and democracy. It is the bastion of the...
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon “On April 29, 1945, Italians found the executed...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the entire world – the future of everything and the world of work, but perhaps the most visible effect of this...