Is There A Backstory To Wale Edun’s Exit?
The short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the Minister of…
The short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the Minister of…
Six months after his appointment as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan appears determined to beat the record of Professor Maurice Iwu as the…
There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of…
In many parts of the country, the rains poured down earlier in the week, bringing much physical and psychological relief from the searing heat. The absence of electricity from public…
Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest…
This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) wants to hear, but it has to be said, even if the party digs its thumbs in its ear. It…
When six states in Nigeria’s South-West zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to confront social ills spreading across the region, they weren’t reinventing…
These are sad times. Who could have believed that after the US and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat…
My mother used to warn me that the words of my mouth could claim my head if I weren’t careful. She should have saved that warning for another man: Nasir…
There Was a Country, lamented Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s literary icon and one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Achebe’s title evokes many things in the mind beyond its primary thematic concern…