A number of weeks ago, I had posted a very brief analysis of the on-going struggle for power within the Nigeria’s rapacious political elite on my...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi… The political landscape in the senate is littered with dubious merchandising acts by terrifyingly corrupt and unrepentant pimping senators. I feel helpless not...
By Joseph Edgar… I was in a heated debate yesterday and the person wanted the Emir to just keep quiet and face the issues of child...
By Femi Fani Kayode… Four hundred people were killed by meningitis in our country in the last few days. Twenty two girls were abducted by Boko...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki are at loggerheads again, and Buhari apologists are erecting annoyingly false Manichean binaries between...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Not many had expected the judicial outcome of some of the cases brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before courts,...
By Farooq Kperogi- What’s all these annoyingly false Manichean binaries people are erecting between an “evil” National Assembly and a “benign” Aso Rock! Both Aso bRock...
By Azu Ishiekwene… We’re in trouble, but that’s not the worst part. The real tragedy is that we don’t know that we don’t know. It took...
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Giving an insight into the severity of his illness on returning from his medical vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that he had blood transfusions...
By Sonala Olumhense… Six weeks ago, in this column, I diagnosed the Muhammadu Buhari government as having fallen. With the leaking to the press last week of an explosive...
By Godwin Onyeacholem… No thanks to the unholy machinations of an unscrupulous cabal in the presidency which formed a satanic partnership with a shamelessly crooked senate,...
By Jiti Ogunye… Sadly since 1999, the National Assembly has continued to violate the principle of separation of powers embedded in the Constitution in the name...
By Abdulrazaq Magaji… My first major assignment for Newswatch, once Africa’s most cited and best known newsmagazine, was to do preliminary work ahead of the fiftieth...
Akintokunbo A Adejumo… I have written many times on a singularity, or perhaps we should call it a genetic aberration or bane of development and progress...
By Joseph Edgar… We have always been told that the Ahmadu Bello University was an excellent citadel of learning, the pride of Nothern Nigeria and the...
By Femi Adesina… I learnt an enduring lesson on the day General Sani Abacha died. It was June 8, 1998, and death had laid its icy...
By Pius Adesanmi… A fallout of Dinogate: some ABU students and alumni have been roaming the internet with the good news of ABU’s greatness. I have...
By Tayo Demola…. I was really astonished to hear the news of the medical doctor who went all the way to the third mainland bridge right...
By Sam Ibemere… Hameed Ali’s troubling tale has become all too familiar. The retired Army Colonel and Comptroller-General (CG) of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has been...
By Sonala Olumhense… Six weeks ago, in this column, I diagnosed the Muhammadu Buhari government as having fallen. With the leaking to the press last week of...
By Rudolph ogoo Okonkwo… “Few days after he was born, some Prophets came from Warri to Benin (the place of his birth) with a message from...
Mr President Sir, SAVE OUR SOUL; A CRY OF AGONY FROM THE ARMY OF VICTIMS OF MALADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE Greetings and best wishes from the...
By Joseph Edgar… It is not as much as what he wrote but exactly the thoughts behind the memo and his expected objective. Furthermore, I am...
By Charly Boy… Lately, I have been thinking and visualizing all the jagbajantis going on in the legislative branch of our government and Na vex just...
By Reno Omokri… I am sure you have all heard about the accusations against a man of God, Apostle Suleman, by a Canada based stripper who...
By CACOL… In recent times, there have been controversies over the operations of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS); the conduct of its officials, custom duties, policies...
Tony Ogunlowo… From the 8th of March the Nnamdi Azikwe International airport, in Abuja, Nigeria’s second busiest airport will close for approximately six weeks for repairs....
When the first rejection was announced, I had sent in a commentary and now I have been further vindicated. We put whoever is the Chairman of...
ByIbraheem Dooba… Three thousand years ago, the war between two 800-pound gorillas of that time, Egyptian and Hittite empires, was threatening to destroy them all. They...
By Joseph Edgar… I would like to send my good wishes to you Mr. president as you resume work after an extended medical vacation. The fact...
By Louis Odion… It was inevitable that a deluge of stirring tributes and a contagion of saccharin smiles would pervade the unveiling last weekend of Chief...
Abike Dabiri just gave a travel advisory and pushed herself into a pot pouri of controversy. She has been accused of causing a diplomatic row between...
By Sonala Olumhense… Did Presidential Candidate (PC) Muhammadu Buhari send a bribe to a judge in 2015? The case: two years ago, during a controversy over...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu… The last protest I ever joined in Nigeria was the #OccupyProtest. Which I regret today because it was, to a large extent,...
As I was about writing this piece, I suddenly heard a rebuttal from Asiwaju’s media team on his possible run for the Presidency. Earlier in the...
By David Iyofor… My dear Wendell aka Reno, I am not sure how to address you, whether to call you Reno Omokri or Wendell Smilin. This...
By Reno Omokri… It has been brought to my attention the attack on my person by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, after I exposed his...
By Charles Dickson… “Our wife, our wife”: come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is. Did you hear…”Osinbajo is very presidential, he has...
By Jude Ndukwe… The ongoing attack of Nigerians by South Africans in their country has, understandably, sparked widespread rage. Reports have it that over one hundred...
By Louis Odion… Half a century ago, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu of the January 15 coup fame sneaked into the national lexicon the term “ten percenter” to...
For the umpteenth time, Ayodele Fayose the fastidious governor of Ekiti has reiterated his vision of emerging President of our fatherland. In his latest post, he...
By Sonala Olumhense….On August 1, 2015, two months after President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, I reflected on the need for a vibrant communication strategy that would...
By Chido Onumah… Late last month, as a section of the country awaited the triumphant return of James Ibori, an ex-governor of Delta State, who was...
By Joseph Edgar… Let me come out straight and not leave any one in doubt that this article is strictly in support of the President Muhammad...
By SOC Okenwa… Perhaps it is not irrelevant to begin this essay by making a confession: I had a little problem deciding on the title of...
By Joseph Edgar… This morning, on my way to work, Jimi Disu comes on air. Now, Uncle Jimi is someone I really find engaging. I do...
By Okey Ndibe… There’s a chance that President Muhammadu Buhari would have come back to Nigeria by the time you read this column, but the fact...
By SOC Okenwa… The Ogidigborigbo of Oghara, James Onanefe Ibori, the kleptocratic ex-Governor of the oil-rich Delta State, returned home from London recently. Ibori had spent...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… Doublespeak is intentional manipulation of language to conceal uncomfortable truths or to cleverly tell outright lies. The term came to us from...
By Gbolade Jetawo… Dedication is the key word. A dedicated shoe clerk could save a nation where an opportunist Statesman could ruin it. The history of...
