By Okey Ndibe… Before the 2015 presidential election, Candidate Muhammadu Buhari essentially advertised himself as a magician. Even though oil prices were tumbling, Mr. Buhari promised...
By Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu… To construct the right building sometimes means we have to tear down the wrong one standing in our way. Our economic...
By Louis Odion… Even the most ardent of his supporters would have felt ashamed at Comrade Ayuba Wabba’s lame showing in Abuja this week. A moment...
By Abiodun Komolafe… BONNIE Honig, political theorist and author of ‘Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy’ wrote: “Democracies must resist emergency’s pull to focus on life’s necessities...
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu… I have never belonged to any political party in Nigeria, but I am interested in the development of a viable democratic culture...
Adekunle Theophilius… Few weeks ago, as i strolled past Government house, Ilorin with its well laid out porches, gargantuan structures, aura of opulence, air of lavishness...
By Sonala Olumhense… British Prime Minister David Cameron last Tuesday did the world a massive favour, letting rip into an open microphone a description of Afghanistan...
By Pat Utomi…The price of Petrol goes up and gloves go off. When gloves go off name calling and the mudslinging on motives become fair game....
By Pius Adesanmi… One argument being pushed by the Federal Government (via Osinbajo et al) and supporters of fuel subsidy removal (appropriate pricing, deregulation, downstreaming, market...
By Joe Igbokwe… Unless senior citizens of the Niger Delta and patriots rise up now to talk sense into the empty heads of the people that...
By Abdul Mahmud … In a few weeks, precisely on the 31st day of May, 2016, the writer and political activist, Chido Onumah, will present his...
By Jude Ndukwe … Nigeria has over time earned for herself the unenviable toga of being a corrupt nation. The determination of past administrations of the...
By Reuben Abati … “We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries...
By Okey Ndibe… I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari orders military to crush new Niger...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… With the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, a new entity with strangers in an unfamiliar society...
By SOC Okenwa… The Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) is not one without scandals from time immemmorial. From 1999 when democracy was restored after the June 12...
By Sonala Olumhense… The following article is intended to be read as an extension of, addendum to, Femi Falana’s “How Nigeria Can Raise U.S.$200 Billion From...
By Reuben Abati . . . Lucy Muthoni Kibaki was buried yesterday, 9.12 am, Nigerian time, in Othaya, Njeri County, Kenya in the presence of about 300...
By Remi Oyeyemi… As we berth at the banks of one year bash of the ascension of President Mohammadu Buhari to office as a civilian leader,...
By Okey Ndibe… Last week, alleged herdsmen armed with rapid-fire guns and machetes descended on the Ukpabi Nimbo community in Enugu State, killing and maiming scores...
By Reuben Abati. … “I hear the World Bank says Nigeria is now the worst place to do business in the entire world.” “ I don’t...
By Reuben Abati…“Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” “Wetin you see?” “My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef,...
By Sonala Olumhense …Any student of history who has encountered the legendary South African figure called Shaka Zulu knows you either hate him or love him....
By Femi Fani-Kayode…Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published. The callous response of the northern governors...
By Femi Fani-Kayode…In 1994 almost one million Tutsis were murdered in cold blood in the space of one month by members of the ruling Hutu tribe...
By Wale Bakare. . . If there is anything that is not lacking in the on-going trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of...
By Reuben Abati…The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in...
By Femi Fani-Kayode…”The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it lose and it will defend itself”- St. Augustine. For...
Peter Claver Oparah…For Bukola Saraki, the embattled Senate President, it never rains but pours. He has enjoyed a permanently stormy tenure since he went at his...
By Reuben Abati …The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999. Public Relations Consultants and...
By Sonala Olumhense…The revelation that the Nigeria military last December in Zaria buried 347 fellow nationals in a mass grave is shameful and scandalous. As...
By Jude Ndukwe …In a story authored by Con Coughlin, the Defence Editor of the UK Telegraph, in the same newspaper on April 12, 2016, titled...
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu…The concept of body language has been frequently advanced to explain issues and situations as they arise in Buhari’s administration. It is a...
By Joseph Rotimi…Ordinarily, Nigerians should be delirious about the achievement of their master negotiator, PMB. The president recently managed to snag some six billion dollars worth...
By Prince Charles Dickson…The blind person who shuts his eyes and says he is asleep; when he was not asleep whom did he see? As...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo…The lightning speed with which Femi Fani-Kayode put together his latest call for mass suicide to Ndigbo in response to the unfortunate (and...
By Olusegun Adeniyi…I cannot remember the last time I picked the biography of a Nigerian and could not put it down. That was until last week...
By Dele Momodu…Your Excellency, I’m convinced the time has come to write you this letter despite the fact that I have some measure of access to...
By SOC Okenwa…Former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali made history as the first leader to be toppled by the Arab Spring of 2011. When the...
By Reuben Abati …I read an interesting article recently in which the author, objecting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent travels abroad pointed out that Presidential spokespersons...
By Femi Fabiyi . . . The buzz “Globalization” has redefined socio economic affairs in many developing and underdeveloped countries. Many countries are relishing robust trade...
By Adetola Ogunsola . . . Adetola, Chisom and Abdullahi were childhood friends who graduated from the same high school. After graduation, they vowed to strengthen...
By Ogaga Ifowodo…What would it take for a politically exposed Nigerian politician to resign from office in protest of his or her averred honour? If...
By Okey Ndibe …I would not have traveled to China. Not at this time, no. In fact, I would tell my Chinese hosts today that I...
By Pius Adesanmi…I’ve been away from my preoccupations with the Nigerian tragedy for a little over a week. That is because the academic unit that I...
By Chido Onumah …In a country where the value of human life is not worth more than that of a fly at a butcher’s shop; where...
Prince Charles Dickson…I am a member of the generation whose roads were rough and tough according to Tai Solarin, I am part of that generation that...
Femi Fani-Kayode..;.The Department of State Security (DSS) have claimed that five Fulani herdsmen were abducted, killed and buried in a mass grave by members of IPOB...
By Joseph Rotimi…A couple of decades ago I was sitting somewhere minding my business when a middle-aged man who had been poring over a newspaper article...
By Tunde Fagbenle…It would be no exaggeration to define Bakare as one of the few credible voices left in Nigeria’s socio-political firmament. Fearlessly outspoken and scourge...
