A few days ago, two of our former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari, men who are in their 80s, were in Paris, France to testify in favour of Nigeria in an arbitration case in which Nigeria stands to lose US$2. 3 billion if the case goes against us. Before they set out on this patriotic, extremely sacrificial journey, a …

That Baba Obasanjo (former President Olusegun Obasanjo) has an almost child-like emotional attachment to the public-owned refineries under the trust and care of the NNPC Limited (NNPCL) is not in doubt. It is also not difficult to explain why that appears to be the case. He can indeed assert some level of claim/credit for the construction of two of Nigeria’s …

Nigeria’s northern geopolitical neighbour, Niger Republic was effectively an annex of our country under the rulership of the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari. At every given opportunity, Buhari never failed to advertise the consanguineal connectivities between him as an individual, and Niger Republic, and indeed between his traditional sociocultural origins in Daura in Katsina State, and Maradi prefecture in Niger …

After the sustained, unwarranted personal attacks I endured for eight years from northerners for unswervingly calling out what I called the “embarrassingly undisguised Arewacentricity of (Muhammadu) Buhari’s appointments” in a 2 February 2019 column titled Even Ahmadu Bello Would Be Ashamed of Buhari’s Arewacentricity, I promised that I would look the other way if a southern president returned the favour …

We are about to witness a mud-fight between two gods of integrity. In a Nigeria where the mantra is, if you see something, say something, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, elected to say something. And he did say something last Wednesday. “We talked about inflation, where has it come from? It’s come from eight …

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Chief Wale Edun has blamed the current inflation in the country on printing of trillions of Naira “without productivity” during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which ended last 29th May. During an interface with the Senate Committee on Finance on Wednesday, the minister said: “We are going to audit …

Politics apart, the aggregate of opinion is that Nigeria is in a very bad shape; opinion is divided, though, on what needs to be done to return it to a better shape. Has this become a mission impossible? Can Nigeria be salvaged or is it beyond redemption? Is the task of our heroes, past and present, condemned to being like …

A former presidential aide, Mr. Reno Omokri has said that Nigeria is suffering from worsened insecurity because the past administration of Muhammadu Buhari failed to rearrest terrorists who were illegally freed from prison. During the Buhari administration, hundreds of terrorists on motorcycles invaded Kuje prisons in Abuja on 5th July 2022 and, according to reports, freed over 600 of the …

Former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Femi Adesina said that stress from a long foreign trip with his principal led to him almost collapsing during a presentation at the headquarters of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abuja. Adesina said the incident happened after flying 17 hours from Seoul, the Republic of …

With insecurity in the rise, President Bola Tinubu vowed on Tuesday to stamp out remnants of Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers in the country. At the public presentation of publications on the Muhammadu Buhari administration in Abuja, President Tinubu spoke glowingly about his predecessor, who also used the occasion to apologise to Nigerians for the pains of some reforms embarked …