Seasons of politicking have always excited me through the ages. They come with multidimensional appeal and inspiration for both the creative writer and the recorder of history in motion, the journalist. They are characterised by sights and sounds, specific to the season. They throw up slogans and sound bites, rhymes and rhythms, frills and thrills, which ring and re-echo in …

Presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, has insisted that President Bola Tinubu is deeply aware of the struggles Nigerians face, countering accusations that the President is indifferent to citizens’ hardships. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on Sunday, Onanuga dismissed social media nicknames labelling president Bola Tinubu as “T-pain” as mischievous, reiterating that the President is committed to turning Nigeria’s economic fortunes …

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga has said that President Bola Tinubu dismissed five ministers from his cabinet on Wednesday based on Nigerian citizens’ perception of them and empirical facts. In a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, a year and five months into the Tinubu administration, five minister were relieved of their appointments. They …

Bayo Onanuga is not from Lagos. He is from Ijebu Ode, Ogun state but has appropriated the rights to live in Lagos and have a say in what happens in the state to the exclusion of others. He is playing similar card at the national level, hence the need for right-thinking Nigerians to halt his dangerous drive that may have …

The Supreme Court judgement on 11 July, granting financial autonomy to the 774 local councils and recognising them as the third tier of Nigeria’s governance architecture, was truly historic. It was perhaps the most remarkable judgement ever delivered by the apex court in recent times, as it used its power to interpret the law to give a different meaning to …

The President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga has made it clear that he never claimed the crypto trading platform, Binance, was aware of $10 billion penalty or that Nigerian regulators decided same. “I said our government may impose heavy fines on Binance for what happened. I never said Binance had been informed about the fines or …

Former spokesman of presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Bayo Onanuga is now Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy. A renowned media professional, Onanuga was named on Friday into the Ministerial Coordination and Strategy team of the Presidency along with Ms. Delu Bulus Yakubu (Senior Special Assistant to the President on Humanitarian Affairs and …

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not govern the country from abroad, according to the a spokesman of the now defunct presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. Some Nigerians had said that Tinubu would rule from London like President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in the British capital on medical ground. Featuring on Trust TV’s Daily …

Accomplished journalists and writers, lawyers of immense stature, and professionals of all hues are stripping themselves and dancing naked on the altar of political partisanship; even those who pretend at calling them to order are no less guilty of similar offences! May I not fall into the same miry clay! The stakes are high: the presidency of Nigeria is touted …