When Senate President Godswill Akpabio recently declared that Nigeria’s elections have “improved tremendously” since the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) left power, his words struck a familiar chord — the triumphant…
Let’s take a trip to Umunna, that is, the kindred setting where the families meet. I’m making this journey to break kolanuts with the ebullient homey of many titles –…
A national earthquake is quietly ticking down to Monday, October 20, 2025 — the planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow march in Abuja spearheaded by activist Omoyele Sowore and the “Take It Back” movement. While…
Somewhere in Nigeria today, a mother still lights a candle for a son who will never return home. His killer, once convicted, now walks free — released by the stroke…
In recent public discourse, it has become common to hear that Nigeria’s debt has somehow “shrunk” under President Tinubu’s watch. But that narrative is dangerously misleading — it obscures the…
When Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) was nominated by President Bola Tinubu as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), many welcomed the choice as a bold…
When President Tinubu recently granted clemency to 175 convicts — including over 40 illegal miners, around 28 drug traffickers, and several murderers — public outrage followed swiftly. The pardon list,…
The venerated writer of the Black Power epoch, Obi B. Egbuna, once put forward this question: Why is it that God uses the good people while the bad ones use…
Osun State is currently in the grip of paralysis, crippled by a malfunctioning government that has turned project management into a farce. A review of recent projects reveals a glaring…
The political developments in Osun State provide a case in point that lays bare the clear trend in Nigeria’s democracy. Whichever side of the ideological fence one may be tempted…
Life, a “transparent pearl” (Shan Sa), is often recognized for its fleeting nature: “a flash of a firefly in the night” and “the little shadow which runs across the grass”…