On 18 September 2023, President Bola Tinubu gave a speech from what could be called the grandest stage of them…
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In my last week’s column (Beyond the PEPT’s Judgement), I argued, among other things, that the Western brand of liberal…
The 6 September 2023 judgement by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) was honestly not unexpected. While the judgment did…
Military coups became the norm in several African countries shortly after independence until the 1990s when the current ‘wave’ of…
The 2023 BRICS Summit held at the Sandton Convention Centre, South Africa, from 22-24 August 2023, has come and gone.…
When doctors and nurses become serial killers chilly stories of Lucy Letby One of the chilling stories from the United…
There have been several conversations about President Tinubu’s ministerial nominees – the people nominated or not nominated, the size of…
If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hit the ground running, it was because problems chased him into office. Yet, it wasn’t…
Nigerians Need Grains Not Bullets The Niger war has not started, but an iron wall has been cast across Africa.…
The Second Russo-Africa Summit, which was originally scheduled to hold at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on…
As you drive on our roads, spare a moment to look at the people standing by the roadsides. Also check…
The recent coup in Niger against the democratically elected government of Mohammed Bazoum has again thrown into the front burner…
July 18 of every year, which is Nelson Mandela’s birthday, is celebrated across the world as Mandela Day. It should…
Monthly N8000 Cash Transfer: A Movement Without Motion? The recent approval by the Senate of the request by President Tinubu…
“This is not the type of student you expel. His records as presented by the principal show that he has…
In the past couple of days, Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS), Nnewi, Anambra State, who…
In the last two weeks or so, Ifa, gospel songs and singers appear to be on trial in Yorubaland. People…
It was John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who, in his 1923 publication, ‘A Tract on Monetary Reform’,…
Not long ago, multi-millionaire militant, Asari Dokubo, in an interview with Arise TV, had this to say about his own…
The mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group, against the Russian military,…
Yoruba Governors Are Ifa Priests Onibara consulted the Oracle to know what the future held for him. Ifa warned him…
Tinubu’s first three weeks in office have been packed with actions – fuel subsidy was removed on his inauguration, some…
The 29 May 2023 inauguration of a new set of power wielders highlighted once again the transient and ephemeral nature…
I am personally scandalised by the news coming from Ondo State about Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the state of his…
President Bola Tinubu Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s President since May 29 2023, once said that his lifelong ambition was…
“From tomorrow, don’t pity me. I applied for the job, I campaigned for it, and I got the job, no…
The Friday May 26 2023 Supreme Court’s dismissal of the appeal by the People’s Democratic Party seeking the disqualification of…
Leadership, especially in a fractious country like ours, is not easy. Jeff Boss, an executive coach and author of the…
The Benin people of Edo State salute themselves as Ugievbudu (someone with a bold heart). Two Benin indigenes spoke about…
IRRESPECTIVE of who eventually becomes the President, the person will face a huge legitimacy crisis from a big swathe of…
