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The dance of the absurd taking place in the media space in recent times couldn’t have been had President Buhari not ordered for a Forensic Audit of the Books of …

“One life taken in cold blood is as gruesome as millions lost in a pogrom.”—Dele Giwa (Nigerian Journalist assassinated in 1986) After five whole years of seeking admission into the institution …

The powers-that-be of Nigeria take great pleasure in describing the country as the “Giant of Africa.” A towering giant is not expected to have a very small-minded leader. A giant …

Tomorrow, May 29, 2020, is what used to be referred to in Nigeria as “Democracy Day,” but now it will only serve as the anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and that …

Please, let’s get something right. There’s no leader who has ever ruled Nigeria that has ever meant bad or evil for Nigeria. None!!! They have always meant well for the …

Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional provisions. If, in the worst-case scenario, COVID-19 subsists …

In our very eyes, the world is changing without a prior notice. Corona Virus that started as a local health challenge in China is now a global phenomenon. Till date …

During the current COVID-19 lockdown, Nigerians who have never paid tax in their lives are mouthing off on social media left, right and centre that government should feed them, yet …

Covid 19 has become an enlightening and an unusual event.  What is incontrovertible is that there is a huge gulf, a chasm of indescribable proportion between the “Governors” and we …

Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had performed below the high expectations of many Nigerians and had rightly earned their rejection, I highly dreaded the disastrous …

The power of imagination cannot be over emphasized in our world, simply put, it is the ability of the human mind to construct images. Imagine two separate rooms both infested …

How exactly is the lockdown helping to halt the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria? Or put another way, how is the Buhari regime which announced the lockdown in three locations, …

There is no better warning about the growing confusion that seems to be gradually beclouding the federal government’s response to the coronavirus challenge than the belief it betrayed last week …

Rarely ever in our systems of government, be they military autocracies or civilian democracies, do Secretaries to the Federal Government (SGF) make news headlines. Nor is it customary to pay …