President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been entangled in the diversion of N543.63 billion Natural Resources Development fund. The Nigeria Extractive…
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Much ink has been spilt in textbooks describing situations where autocratic states can behave badly. They abuse rights; they ignore…
Today marks the 59thanniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at the…
On the occasion of the 59th Independence anniversary of Nigeria, the country’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
The entire Trump presidency has been a sequence of “watch this space” moments. Dismissals and political executions; attacks and distractions;…
The obviously notorious herdsmen are currently busy making a big political statement in Kogi State just as Christians are busy…
The problem of the Nigerian nation is prebendalism (political systems where elected officials and government workers feel they have a…
Akì í mú ìbọn tetere. One does not hold a gun carelessly. (Always be careful in handling dangerous matters.) So…
A Western Nigeria group, Coalition of Yoruba Nationals, has said that it will pull the Yoruba ethnic nationality out of…
The tributes have been dripping in heavy praise: former French president Jacques Chirac and mayor of Paris, the great statesman;…
Former Ekiti State Governor in Western Nigeria, Ayodele Fayose, has come under a severe bombardment by an Islamic group just…
This is certainly not the best season for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a supposed interventionist agency that is…
China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it might be approaching a level of formidable heft…
Favour was ready to start her first year of university when a man approached her mother with a proposition for…
This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second…
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that;…
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians and the international community that the domestication of the integrated Sustainable Development Goals (iSDG)…
Former 2011 Presidential running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one…
Two recent governance events underlined the waning strength of government in our democracy. Contextually, the waning strength of government is…
It had a good deal of desperate scolding. Sweden’s Greta Thunberg assumed the role of punishing advocate, a Joan of…
Plots to abort the perceived 2023 presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor (1999-2007) and an influential…
Process, not outcomes, is what engenders satisfaction and acceptability of elections. Elections are important to democracy, as they are the…
The Donald Trump administration appears to be busy stoking the fire for a possible oil war in the troubled Middle-East…
“We have no friends among you” – Justice Nikki Tobi The Supreme Court of Nigeria is the nation’s final court…
Mango is called the king of all fruits because of its numerous health benefits. The fruit has now become a…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has again come under the hammer of the Peoples Democratic…
A stone that is visible cannot destroy a hoe. Rwandan Proverb I am tucked in my hotel room in the…
He was the prototypical strong man softened by tactical reforms, blissfully ignorant before the fall, blown off in the violent…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist movement rooted in Eastern Nigeria, has urged the United Nations to intervene…
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has approved a $500,000 grant to support…