Many Nigerians may not know some state governors, but it is hard to find a politically conscious Nigerian who does not know Governor Rochas Okorocha of...
Permit me to use this medium to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari on the success recorded so far on the war against Boko Haram. Besides, I commend...
In the age of “alternative facts”, the media has been awash with fake news, “post-truths” and outright untruths; where people claiming to be authors or journalists,...
Last Monday, November 27, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a 30-member tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee for the negotiation of a new National Minimum Wage for...
“I hear say Atiku don port oh, from APC to God knows where…” “He used to be a Customs officer. Going from one port to another...
This week, I propose to use one of financial market’s tried and tested logic to explain an intractable problem of honour in our public life on...
Now that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has finally slunk back into the PDP once again, the party that he once helped found and twice futilely...
Keeping a weekly column such as this can be quite exerting; but the otherwise tedious task of getting a topic to write on is often simplified,...
Since last Wednesday’s visit of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the Akure residence of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the media, particularly the social media, have been...
In this season of the presentation of budget estimates by the executive and their consideration by the legislature, it is imperative to interrogate budgeting for education....
“When we talked about exiting recession in the second quarter of this year, many people did not believe. We are, (however) optimistic that our forecast to...
At first, it tingled and jingled our ears like rattling fake news. A military coup d’état that sought to end the 37-year reign of Zimbabwe’s Robert...
The resignation of Robert Mugabe on Tuesday brought the one week tragi-comedy that followed his overthrow as Zimbabwean President to an end. The world had witnessed...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has finally resigned a week after his former political allies and the army took steps to get him out of office. The...
I am happy for Willie Obiano. He was re-elected as governor of Anambra State and his victory is good for our democracy. As much as godfatherism...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has been in the news lately over the outcome of the competence test he administered on teachers in...
Since August, I have been the anchorperson of a programme on television called ThisDay Live where we discuss political matters – local and global. The programme...
Nigerian ethnic groups are enduring the pains, rather than enjoying the gains of unity. From 1960 to date, successive governments, both the militarily imposed and the...
Despite the minor hitches observed in the just concluded Anambra elections, the election was adjudged by election observers as peaceful, orderly, free and fair and credible....
Somewhere out there, right now, is one rich and powerful Nigerian. We do not know how he made his money, but we have it on some...