While Nigeria bleeds, the presidency chases titles abroad BY Peter Obi
It is alarming that we now live in a country of titles and honours without any passion for the people’s plight. While the Presidency basks in the euphoria of titles, St.Lucia, our people are being killed at home. A nation where children cannot go to school because some of the Continue Reading
Boko Haram and Islamist separatism in Northern Nigeria
Nigeria’s complex, complicated security challenges, which have seen the northwest corner ravaged by trans-border bandits, farming communities in its north-central parts pillaged by killer herdsmen and its north east axis over run by Boko Haram insurgents has reduced Africa’s most populous country to the continent’s largest human slaughter slab. Fifteen Continue Reading
How Trump’s citizenship policy affects Nigeria (2)
According to OECD statistics of Official Development Assistance, the US is the biggest foreign aid donor, distributing $48bn in 2021, with about a third of that sum going to sub-Saharan Africa. Over the 2023/2024 financial year, the US said it had donated almost $3.7bn. It’s hard to say what conclusions Continue Reading
Barr Akeem Agbaje Mourns Former Oyo Chief Judge, Justice Afolabi Adeniran
Barr Akeem Agbaje Mourns Former Oyo Chief Judge, Justice Afolabi Adeniran Barr. Akeem Agbaje, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a two-time gubernatorial aspirant in Oyo State, has extended his condolences to the family, friends, and professional colleagues of the late Hon. Justice Afolabi Adeniran, former Chief Judge Continue Reading
Okeogun APC convenes stakeholders’ meeting, hails turnout
As part of preparatory activities to put its house in order towards a smooth 2027 general elections , the All Progressives Congress,APC in Oyo State ,OkeOgun chapter ,has convened a high level strategic meeting. The meeting held on Monday, 30th June 2025, at Aborisade Hall, Igbope, Orelope LG, had in Continue Reading
Matters arising at APC and PDP
So sad that Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, until last weekend, chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not stay further at the helm of the party, to welcome the next batch of opposition governors defecting to his party. Three more are said to be on the queue to be Continue Reading
APC And Abdullahi Ganduje’s Resignation
It is now confirmed that Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, 75, Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has resigned from his position as Chairman of the party. He has had quite a storied career as a politician, serving under Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso as Deputy Governor of Kano State, 1999 – Continue Reading
As Fubara capitulates!
Expectedly, opinions have remained divided on the truce between the feuding parties in the Rivers State crisis as hammered out by President Tinubu, particularly in terms of what it bodes for the peace of the state. Going by the sketch of the details already in the public domain, it is Continue Reading
Benue killings: Those Nigeria must appease
The Inspector General Of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, during last Tuesday press briefing at the Force Headquarters in Abuja confirmed the arrest of 26 suspects for their alleged involvement in the massacre at Yelewata community, Benue State during which over 200 people including women, children were mindlessly killed inside their torched Continue Reading
Tinubu’s local wins post-ECOWAS chairmanship
On the evening of July 1, 1964, a weary but elated Lyndon B. Johnson walked into his White House residence after a day of frantic vote-counting on Capitol Hill. His political adversaries in the Senate had finally dropped their 114-day filibuster, clearing the way for the passage of a law Continue Reading