Tinubu’s Military Nightmare
There is a web of confusion swirling around the Bola Tinubu presidency. On one hand, sources from within his government are telling the media that there was attempted coup d’état…
There is a web of confusion swirling around the Bola Tinubu presidency. On one hand, sources from within his government are telling the media that there was attempted coup d’état…
Putting it nicely, Aparutu is the Yoruba word for a joker, a clown. In August 1986, when I first arrived at the wooden, fabricated office of PUNCH in Kudeti, Ikeja,…
I have been worried about the skewed narratives about Nigeria’s Super Eagles qualification for the FIFA World Cup Africa playoff tournament in Morocco next month. Most of these ignorant statements…
US President Donald Trump may be getting ahead of himself with the encouraging signs that, following the ceasefire in Gaza, the world might have another opportunity to end the Middle…
The grave is never satisfied, but other things compete with it for insatiability. I can’t help feeling that some members of Nigeria’s National Assembly will vie for the top place…
A familiar happy story in Nigeria: a 16-year-old graduating from a pricey private university, a 14-year-old accepted into medical school, a 16-year-old defending a thesis while classmates elsewhere are still…
On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in popular Nigerian imagination. And that’s probably to be expected for a man…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Nigeria’s lifeline from decades of rot in the petroleum downstream, has to fight every inch for its turf. The fight started 18 years ago, when the…
In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear…
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling with banditry and insurgency, and in a state whose political…