The Week of Trump, Johnson, Buhari and Democracy
Last week was filled with political drama in the United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. In each country, the leader was made to face the consequences of the problems they…
Last week was filled with political drama in the United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. In each country, the leader was made to face the consequences of the problems they…
I boarded a commercial airliner heading to Lagos from Abuja. I was already seated, and strapping my seat belt, when a young man approached me. He must have been in…
It’s an open secret that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State earned himself a place in the black book of the Nigerian Army. Since the December 2016 leak of an…
The Nigerian millionaire lawmakers have no reputation for making laws that have a significant impact on people’s lives. However, they are working hard to make two new laws that are…
Nigerian roads cannot be worse than they are today, unless we have returned to primitivity. Where can you travel to in Nigeria that would make you say, that was a…
Africa’s financial sector comes under global spotlights this week as chief tax officers of all the countries on the continent converged on Kampala, Uganda under the auspices of African Tax…
Five years after becoming a minority party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) looks pitiful in disarray. It has become a sorry spectacle of the party it used to be, devoid…
Everything has its time, and we are missing an opportunity to control the epidemic of sexual harassment by lecturers of higher institutions in Nigeria. This is the right time for…
So, after all his thunderous imprecations and venomous profiling of the Wazirin Adamawa as “hopelessly corrupt”, OBJ could not resist the temptation of a N50m “egunje” from the same tainted…
Nearly 40 years after leading his people to freedom from British colonial rule, an Africa giant and former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, departed. Many obituaries will be written…