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Nigerian politicians seem determined, from all indications, to wrap the country’s contributions to the evolution of democratic governance, in infamy. Where, the country once stood as a beacon of hope for the black race, the present crop of political leaders seems out to rubbish any hope, that anything good can Continue Reading

Institutions are very important purveyors of a country’s successes and quality matters. Institution in this case is not about a building or a school in the ordinary sense of usage. It has to do with an organisation or agency inaugurated by a government to carry out some specific functions on Continue Reading

Nigerians must consider themselves ‘indebted’ to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), first, for giving new meanings to the once-familiar concepts of ‘principles’, ‘morality’, ‘law’ and ‘constitutionalism’, and second, for insisting on operationalising them in their new, but self-assigned opposition role in the ongoing Rivers fracas. Thanks to the august body, Continue Reading

Sir: Dr. Tope Fasua, the special adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Economic Affairs, was recently on channels television where he made some striking observations. He cast doubt on the data which puts Nigeria’s poor at about 100 million before adding some interesting insights on the Naira to Dollar Continue Reading

A few years ago, T.Y Danjuma, a well-trained and respected military leader in Nigeria,had urged people in his State, Taraba, to defend themselves. I suspect that he said so in order to get the authorities to do something drastic to provide security for his people. Since then some other persons Continue Reading

In a heartfelt Easter goodwill message, Hon. Busari Yakub, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has extended warm greetings to Christians in Ifedapo Federal Constituency, Oyo State, and Nigeria at large. In his goodwill message, signed on April 20, 2025, highlights the significance of the Easter season and Continue Reading

There can be no better way to interpret or situate the position of PDP Governors’ Forum on the ongoing discussions about political mergers or coalitions other than to conclude that the governors have something up their sleeves. Rising from a meeting in Ibadan, the governors declared that the party will Continue Reading

A sort of romance is steaming between Obi and Atiku, but a wedlock is forbidden by the gods. Not even the courts can help. The crises eating away at both the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party sought succour at the judiciary, culminating at the Supreme Court. Each had Continue Reading

Many within my sphere of influence have expressed tremendous exasperation about the situation of the world right now, especially their inability to fathom a hopeful clarification and even more importantly, resolution of the widespread destruction of stability, security, productivity, peace, and rationality, in sum, prevalent chaos. In this article I Continue Reading

China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 decision to “open the windows” and let the world’s capital know-how to blow in. In Nigeria, the same decade Continue Reading