President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted as saying in far-away Washington DC, United States that he has done his level best for Nigeria! Can you imagine that! And can you beat it! It would appear that Nigerian leaders always need to japa to far-away countries to make statements that are better told to the Marines! Hear what Buhari was reported to …

There’s hardly any country in the world that you will not find Nigerians, with most of them doing great things in different fields of human endeavour. In Houston, Texas, the energy capital of the world, a Nigerian is the leading liver transplant surgeon. What of Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General …

I have never had fun reading a piece of lamentation masked as a press statement, as I did the one released by the Director of Communications and spokesman of the Enugu State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation. The lawyer-turned-election publicity expert must have packed the frustrations of his party men into a tight press release of just five relatively …

Samuel Ioraer Ortom’s name is well-known in Nigeria’s subsisting democratic dispensation. The Benue State helmsman is something of a “comrade governor”, who is well-spoken, vocal and an activist. He is never shy of baring his mind on issues of fairness, equity and justice. He reminds you of Adams Oshiomhole, the khaki-wearing ex-trade unionist, turned governor of Edo State. His voice …

Let me start with a story told by an unrepentant critic of one of our former Presidents. There was no love lost between the two, and the antipathy was mutual. That former President is a rather forceful personality, and loves to have his way. It’s either his way, or no way. One day, while he still occupied the Presidential Villa, …

Despite his famous zeal, stamina, energy and verve, Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo had to learn when to draw the brakes. There were times his spirit was willing, but his body weak. He had to succumb to the body clockwork to catch some rest. If he still desired to drag his body, he was tactfully restrained by his aides. I …

Back through the ages I go wandering once again Back to the season of my youth I recall the bags of rags that someone gave us And how my mama put the rags to use… – Coat of many colours, Dolly Parton There is nothing new that will not become old; even our world (as we know it today) will …

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the February 2023 election shocked many by his outburst earlier in the year. Among other aliases, Tinubu is famous for the traditional title, Jagaban (lead warrior), bestowed on him years ago by the people of Borgu in Niger State. Out of a meeting with Muhammadu Buhari who he …

It’s quite refreshing that after many years of dithering over this vital issue which strikes at the heart of survival of many ethnic groups in the country, the Federal Government has now approved a new National Language Policy which makes the mother tongue the language of instruction at the primary level, that is the first six years of education. It …

By Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga It is laughably tragic that the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY and Arise News Television, Mr Nduka Obaigbena has the temerity to pretend to be a guardian of public morality in contemporary Nigerian media practice. The fact that this character is an unscrupulous hustler and blackmailer who has done tremendous damage to the journalism …