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As if blessed with clairvoyance or possibly having a premonition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s imminent death, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, seemed to have stirred up the debate around the former President’s political strength and likely impact on the 2027 election, even in death. Continue Reading

After what seems to be a long lull, the hydra-headed campaign for “true federalism” via a brand-new constitution is back in full swing. It’s been a while, really. The Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians, says it is working on a draft constitution for the country. The group criticised the Continue Reading

  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Busari Yakubu, popularly known as Donbay, has thrown his hat into the ring for the House of Representatives seat in the Saki West, Saki East, and Atisbo federal constituency in 2027 general elections. The APC Chieftain made the declaration at separate APC Continue Reading

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Busari Yakubu, popularly known as Donbay, has thrown his hat into the ring for the House of Representatives seat in the Saki West, Saki East, and Atisbo federal constituency in 2027 general elections. The APC Chieftain made the declaration at separate APC stakeholders’ Continue Reading

  A group of Nigerian professionals abroad, the Omituntun Initiative in the Diaspora (OID), has described the newly prestigious chieftaincy title conferred on Oyo State, Governor, Seyi Makinde, as the Aare Omoluabi of Akure Kingdom, as a result of Makinde’s outstanding promotion of Yoruba cultural values, commitment to public service, Continue Reading

  Barrister Akeem Agbaje, a respected legal luminary and distinguished member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has clarified recent speculations regarding his role in the ongoing political developments surrounding the Ibadan North Federal Constituency by-election. Contrary to reports and insinuations circulating within certain quarters, Barrister Agbaje has not anointed Continue Reading

I arrived in the United States in the fall of 2021 to start postgraduate studies, only to find myself engaged in conversations about Blackness in ways I had never experienced in over 30 years of life in Africa. Suddenly, I constantly faced questions that never really came up for me Continue Reading

In 1908, a German company known as the Nigerian Bitumen Company recorded the first oil prospecting in our nation. The prospecting activities continued until suddenly, out of a web of a complex series of events, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Bosnia, was assassinated in 1914. On June 28, Continue Reading

In a shocking display of lawlessness, Governor Okpebholo of Edo State recently made a public declaration that has rattled democratic sensibilities and provoked widespread concern about the state of governance in Nigeria. Addressing a political gathering in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area, the Governor openly declared that a Continue Reading

The local government election held across 20 local government areas (LGAs) including 37 local council development areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State on July 20 partly symptomised the ills afflicting local government system in Nigeria. The poll, for which the movement of an estimated 28 million residents of Nigeria’s most populous Continue Reading