Buhari Goes Rail-wire
Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line…
Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line…
Narratives of hospitals and clinics rejecting patients who are in critical condition is not new in Nigeria, but it is deserving of our solemn attention, focus and a solution. Not…
It has taken four whole years for President Muhammadu to take ownership and control of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party forged on the promise of making him president.…
There is a story that President Muhammadu Buhari likes to tell. He has done so many times in public and private meetings. It goes thus: “After we got inaugurated into…
An overview of elections in Nigeria since 1999 when democracy was restored to the country would readily reveal that winning elections through the ballot box has been herculean. From rancorous…
Is Olusegun Obasanjo a Nigerian or an African statesman? This is something that matters to him. To truly be either, he has to have inspired hope for the future of…
In the past one week, those who think they own Nigeria, and their cohorts, have been making magisterial pronouncements on the state of the nation. What they couldn’t get through…
In 1985, a deceptive military administration held power. Its leader, General Ibrahim Babangida, took Nigeria through an economic excursion that delivered unbridled hardship, causing violent protests and other reactions that…
I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have…
It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar.…