An Election The World Is Anticipating
A visit by any United States president, to any country opens doors and comes with immeasurable benefits. In some ways, it is better than hosting the world cup. Only 14…
A visit by any United States president, to any country opens doors and comes with immeasurable benefits. In some ways, it is better than hosting the world cup. Only 14…
In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan,…
When in Public Service, one never knows the shoes you step on or those who write behind your back especially when you are in the process of reform, requiring unsettling…
In logic, “argumentum ad ignorantiam” describes a deficit in reasoning whereby an argument is based on sheer ignorance. It is the most hilarious slip to make in a debate. To…
Events of the past few weeks in Nigeria illustrate how corruption has graduated into kleptocracy, leaving us in a society where the theft of public assets is so mature that…
Members of the National Assembly always seem to be at war with one head of a federal agency or another. The face-off usually starts with a threat of a public…
When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is a place where aircraft are housed, but it was way,…
When I led a team of The Point’s editors to have a Democracy Day chat with Pastor Tunde Bakare, in his presidential Amazing Grace Villa residence, I honestly did not…
There’s a wise saying in Yoruba land, which goes thus: “If you like, feed the entire city with pounded yam, egusi soup and stockfish on a daily basis, there’ll still…
An election had already taken place and a winner declared. But when outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi died early last month from complications relating to the coronavirus, it still…