By Segun Ayobolu At last, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), this week, formally announced, via a recorded video shared on social media, his aspiration to contest the 2023 Presidential election in a bid to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. This move has been much speculated and anticipated despite the good Professor’s hitherto public reticence on the matter. …

Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity …

By Emeka Ozumba It is the season of comings and goings in political districts across Nigeria, particularly in Anambra State which just ushered a new Governor into office. Interestingly, Anambra is one of those states with a unique gubernatorial election cycle. Aside choosing the next President with the rest of the country, the state is also engrossed in the search …

By Louis Odion “Yes, next?” “Sir, the next person on the list”, continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met some time ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to maintain the house …

By Emmanuel Ado Nasir El- Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state, is guilty by association. First is his close association with Muhammadu Buhari, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is not particularly popular in a section of the country. Another is El-Ruf Nasir El- Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state, is guilty by association. First is his close association …

And so, it is that the narration surrounding last Thursday’s modest but significant inauguration of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo is not about the how well he wished to progress Anambra State as the seventh civilian to govern over the state created 31 years ago, but the side attracting involving two famous women. Only an insignificant number has taken the time …

Umunne m Ndi Anambra, I applied for this job; my party, (the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA) shortlisted me, and you—umunne m Ndi Anambra— interviewed and employed me as your chief servant, with Dr. Onyekachukwu Gilbert Ibezim as my deputy. God ordained this moment and we are grateful to Him and to you all for the privilege to serve you. …

It was four days to his 57th birthday. It’s exactly five years ago on Sunday, 5th March 2017, that Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, one of Nigeria’s finest, most innovative and most resourceful journalists of recent time, died in continually befuddling circumstances. He had attended the 80th birthday celebration of his erstwhile benefactor and boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s pioneer President in the current …

It’s obviously not the easiest of times in our country currently, what with severe fuel scarcity exacerbating the other existential challenges we have been coping with. In some areas, there’s no fuel, no electricity, thus translating to severe energy crisis. Yet some other people have children, wards, dependents, relations in Ukraine, currently being bombarded by Russia. I have one, daughter …

Three hundred and forty Naira – yes, N340 – for a litre of Premium Motor Spirits (PMS) by the year 2022! Unlike other milestones such as the esoteric Vision 20:2020 by which Nigeria was to have been catapulted into the league of the first 20 economies in the world at the finishing line of the last century, the N340-per-litre of what …