When President Muhammadu Buhari nominated former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola for a ministerial position in 2015, he (Fashola) gave Nigerian lawmakers a lesson on...
If there is any minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration who has come in for severe criticism and vilification, that person would undoubtedly be Minister of...
Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abukakar Malami (SAN), has become one of Nigeria’s most talked about public officials. In fact,...
Foes by day, friends at night When Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Senior Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, decided to pay President Muhammadu Buhari a visit...
On Friday, the 29th of October, 2021, Honourable Chukwuma Umeoji, a governorship aspirant in Anambra State under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),...
Prior to the 2015 presidential election, when the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was an opposition party, seeking to upstage the then government of the Peoples...
Very few Nigerians would have been surprised with the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, aka FFK, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to...
Like or loathe him, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is one man who can be described in these two words: controversial and bold. He is...
When, on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari suddenly woke up from his reticence to relieve two of his ministers, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, the...
‘On the mic’ On August 9, history was made when Akpabio received the Forensic Audit Report on NDDC in Abuja, and announced that it would be...
With barely two years to the 2023 general elections, and the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term, the controversy over which region should produce the...
In the beginning The intriguing saga involving the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, and the unfolding drama beginning with...
Before his catastrophic fall from a hero to alleged villain, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari was, by a mile, the most celebrated police officer in...
When, on Tuesday, July 27, former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the ruling All Progressives...
After defeating former President Goodluck Jonathan in the presidential polls in 2015, one of the first appointments President Muhammadu Buhari made was that of Capt. Hadi...
When former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, held sway with the unusual moniker, “Uncommon Transformer,” he had a crude philosophy which read: “What money...
On July 7, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a report on the abduction of children from various Nigerian schools in the North, said over...
The defection of Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, June 29, has...
Prior to his unceremonious and self-inflicted fall from grace, Farouk Lawan was the face of integrity in the National Assembly as he was perceived as one...
One political analyst once described Kalu as “an individual who bears the stamp of shame, becoming in the process, an incredulous moral burden, decorated with the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), is one appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari whose emergence since 2015 has...
The travails of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, can be likened to that of a hapless cockroach playing the...
The public outcry by Nigerians, following the ‘Civil War’ comments made by President Muhammadu Buhari on the escalating insecurity situation in the South-East region of the...
The life and times of James Onanefe Ibori, the Odidigborigbo of Urhobo Kingdom, the former Governor and political godfather of Delta State, is a story that...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has been dressed in different garbs for electing to thrive in controversies. Of all that has been ascribed...
Before the famous (or if you like, infamous) fallout between the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu (AMEN), Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Anthony Ebenezer Mbaka,...
Digging into a past Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar represents different things and comes across as a man of diverse parts, which when dissected, reveals quite...
In the past two weeks, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, has been the most talked about man in Nigeria. He has...
Danladi Umar, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), was caught on video March 29, as he displayed some boxing skills while engaging a security...
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is a study in controversy and likes to hug the limelight. He is not one to shy away from...
Floating on dreams The announcement of the formation of a Biafra Customary Government (BCG) by the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid...
In the past one month, renowned Islamic cleric and preacher, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, has effortlessly put himself in the forefront as, arguably, the most talked...
Sobering index The Global Terrorism Index 2020 placed both Nigeria and Somalia within the top ten countries with the highest cases of terrorist activities; the former...
The nomination of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari on February 16, 2021, has effectively...
The gathering storm When an online news platform reported in December 2020 that Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, had quietly relocated to Dubai since September shortly...
The decision of the CBN, on Friday, February 5, to issue a mandate to all commercial banks regarding the embargo on the transactions of crypto-currency elicited...
The launching of the Rapid Response Register (RRR) on January 19, 2021, said to be an emergency intervention database of poor Nigerian households, was not the...
When, on January 1, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari made one of his rare addresses to Nigerians, he harped on the insecurity situation in the country, insisting...
In this LongRead, you will find compelling a list of some Igbo politicians who may be eyeing Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, in 2023. Could...
Warning! Do not mistake this for a motivational. The looting of Nigeria has become so endemic that it is no longer spoken of in hushed tones....
On November 26, 2020, Nigerian authorities issued a terse statement saying wanted fugitive, Abdulrasheed Maina, had been traced to Niger Republic, Nigeria’s northern neighbour, long suspected...
The intriguing saga that has followed the trial of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, is one that would...
“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this...