Before the stock market collapse that ushered in the great depression of 1929, the African-American community was a major voting bloc for the Republican Party. Surprising,...
I recall how on a day like this few weeks ago, just 2 days to the election I had a heart-to-heart discussion individually with the the...
The last few months had been a tortuous one for dear country. Since certain figures declared interest in certain political posts, the political atmosphere of Nigeria...
Last week, the All Progressives Congress, emerging from an emphatic victory at the just-concluded 2019 presidential election, wielded the big stick on some errant members of...
Nigeria’s huge population and profitable politics make the struggle to occupy public office intense. Many do wrongs to have their way and the incumbents hardly retire....
In 1973, a British Historian who specialised in northern Nigerian history, Anthony Kirk-Green, published a small book entitled “MUTUMIN KIRKI: THE CONCEPT OF GOOD MAN IN...
Both I have known for over a decade. Having reported national politics in my close to thirty-year career in journalism and privileged to occupy the editor’s...
In the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was awarded 15,424,921 votes by Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while...
As the dust raised by the 2019 Nigerian election settles and the frenzy over the results reach a denouement, the speed train is set to move...
Power is transient. Owning it doesn’t mean it’ll always be yours. Aiming for it doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s onetime second citizen and...