Litres, Not Language
When the leadership of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers,(NUPENG) walked into the Presidential Villa last week and told President Bola Tinubu “thank you,” my first instinct was…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Nigeria – A Republic in Freefall
Nigeria is not being governed; it is being managed like a private estate in which constitutional boundaries are treated as decorative suggestions. Under President Bola Tinubu, political brigandage has been…
Tinubu vs EFCC, Trump vs US Attorney
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, EFCC, got a court order to freeze Osun State government’s bank account, but President Bola Tinubu asked the EFCC to reverse the process. In the same week,…
Abacha’s Death and the Republic of Rumors
Nigeria is a country where facts go to die and speculation thrives like mold in a damp room. It is a place where official silence is treated as a governing…
Atiku Abubakar 2027 Presidential Bid: Last Stand?
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's sixth presidential bid in 2027 faces declining vote totals, a fractured PDP, and a splintered opposition. We examine the numbers and structural barriers that will…
Editorial: Tinubu, EFCC and Freezing of Osun Accounts (2)
The emasculation of Osun’s elected government is not an isolated misjudgment. It is part of a wider and deeply troubling pattern in which partisan fiat appears increasingly comfortable replacing constitutional…
Editorial: Tinubu, EFCC and Freezing of Osun Accounts (1)
Nigeria has never lacked for strongmen. What it lacks chronically, tragically, is strong institutions. And so the country finds itself once again in familiar territory: a federal government behaving not…
Renewed Hope, Real Numbers And A First Lady Who Delivers
Nigerians love to complain, and often we have every right to. But every once in a while, a story comes along that deserves to be told simply because it is…
Between Bishops And Tinubu
Since the Catholic Bishops’ visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the storm of reactions to the event has not abated. For a visit that was supposed to be private, the…
Editorial: The Unedifying Afterlife of Obasanjo and Atiku
There is a peculiar species of post-governmental pathology that infects the retired statesmen of the developing world, wherein the dignity of former high office is systematically bartered for the cheap…