The results of the zeal, commitment and passion of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to leave Lagos State far better than he met it are becoming palpable every passing day. Unwaveringly intentional and focused to beating his own record, the governor has, in the last five years, been setting new template and new direction to making the State of Excellence excel in …

I had wanted to write on the proposed 2025 federal budget when it was presented to the National Assembly for consideration late last year but other interests crept in. Immediately President Bola Tinubu sent a revised proposed budget to parliament increasing it from N49 trillion to N54 trillion, I knew it was time to visit the matter. President Tinubu’s first …

When Muslims are in power, we are out of power. And when we are out of power, we are completely out of power — Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Tuesday, 11 February, 2025 When one had thought that Saturday Tribune editor, Lasisi Olagunju’s “Are Yoruba Muslims Truly Marginalised”? had adequately answered all questions and doused the fire of the clamour for Northern Nigeria-fashion …

Nigeria has just had one hell of a week. Like an evil spirit, hell hovered over Nigeria with fraught silence. To stave it off, Muslims will seem to have recited the Quranic verse of the Yaseen to keep the evil away. Christians banned and banished. Hell held on regardless. Hell was first let loose when a hellish temperament of the …

Opposition politicians have revved up their engine again ahead of the 2027 election. They are busy meeting, engaging in visitations, regrouping, and strategising under various platforms. And recently at a two-day event in Abuja themed, “Strengthening Nigeria’s Democracy: Pathway to Good Governance and Political Integrity”, some of these opposition figures huffed and puffed, upbraiding the present government and disparaging President …

The recent outburst of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu against Canada’s visa denial to Chief of Defense Staff, General Christopher Musa and half of his team represents a serious diplomatic blunder for Nigeria. Publicly telling Canada ‘go to hell’ is reckless and deeply embarrassing. A country should conduct international relations with decorum and strategic maturity. It’s key …

I did my post field presentation in 2010 thinking that by 2011, I should be done with my PhD but I was wrong. A friend of mine who finished in the same Department (Political science) and the same Faculty (Social Sciences) was the first person to draw my attention to what I have come to tag: “The Politics of Abstract”. …

The deliberate destruction of the Nigerian university environment began in earnest with the appointment of Prof. Humphrey Nwosu as the Chairman of Nigeria’s electoral umpire, known then as the National Electoral Commission. Nwosu was a lecturer at the Political Science department of the University of Nigeria when General Ibrahim Babangida called him up in 1989 for the position following the …

Hardly is it suspected that the physical defines undercurrents that eventually lead to the physical either as condensation or as pressure. Unaware of the undercurrents we simply conclude that what we do not see or feel does not exist. We have scientists to thank; with their microscope the world now knows that there are living organisms bitterly fighting themselves in …

The Federal Government has brought to the table beneficial ways of transforming and developing the country at regional levels. With this new development, where the Federal Government could not reach in terms of (a) Infrastructure (b) Health care (c) Empowerment schemes (d) Agricultural development (e) Management of environmental resources and (f) social welfare, the regional commissions will attend to them …