A society whose essence has never known anything fundamentally ennobling and uplifting since the civil war, but rather wallops in the most despicable form of...
In my tribute to Senator Uche Chukwumerije, I had posited that, “Every age, every generation produces an iconoclast, an eclectic, eccentric, a quirky and unusual...
Prior to his victorious campaign in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari had contested in three presidential elections and never once did he promise to scrap the...
I met Ojo Maduekwe in April 2014 in Ottawa, Canada at the 50th birthday party of my colleague, Nduka Otiono, professor of African Studies at...
Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has a solid claim to the title of politician par excellence of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. In many ways,...
“This country is in a mess. So even this clean man owns foreign assets?” “Haba Emma, you are so controversial. What is wrong in owning...
I spent the last three years of secondary school being acquainted with and enamoured by a revolving door of Nigerian journalists, activists and lawyers – who...
The main reason many people don’t like to travel to their ancestral homes is because they don’t have their own house. That is also the...
If you remember Sir Rider Haggard’s novel, you will remember the eponymous protagonist, a most beautiful, wilful monarch, “She,” who must always be obeyed. Well, diminutive...
At the height of the electioneering campaign early last year, no one was in doubt that what Lagos State needed was continuity. After 16 years...
We must provide better allowances and adequate remuneration to frontline troops to motivate them and strengthen their esprit de corps....
We urge law-abiding Muslims and other Nigerians to eschew thoughts of anti-Trump or anti-American actions over this threat. Nigerians should...
If that day of quiet transition arrives, the clearest lesson may not come from critics or from rivals. It will...
As the final hours of 2025 give way to 2026, let us move forward with intention. Let us live as...
The strategic implication is clear. Drones are no longer force multipliers alone; they are instruments of territorial control. By dominating...