The All Progressives Congress is now frequently called Nigeria’s main opposition party or group. Which designation raises the question: what exactly does the APC stand for? Or—a different question: In …

Edo state is part of the oil region of Nigeria and has been in the news recently for the wrong reasons. The politricks of “one man, one vote” mantra of …

Going by the dexterity and zest with which Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai awkwardly throws his weight against the government and, most times, the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan, one cannot …

I was shocked to hear the President say that we do not have a modern army.  We don’t?  What then has been happening to all the billions that go into …

General Buhari took his misfortune and fall from grace to grass like a stoic to the extent that he kept mum when his new boss Sanni Abacha killed Nigerians at …

The spate of insecurity under the Jonathan administration has been alarming. Most Nigerians will agree that the president lacks the capacity to ensure the protection of lives and properties of …

After the bomb incident of 14th April that took scores of lives and maimed many, the government let out a plea asking kind-hearted Nigerians to come donate blood to victims …

Most disgruntled Nigerians consider themselves quintessential whistleblowers. And there can be none who is the undisputed champion of the lot than Lamido Sanusi, the suspended commander-in-chief of the Central Bank …

In the US for example, Nigerian ethnic communities are as segregated as America was in the days of John Edgar Hoover. Everybody is in his tent except occasionally. Where there …

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing …