President Bola Tinubu will be among world leaders who will grace the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as the sixth President in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga said the President Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday for Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Serving as …

The door of life is binary; it opens either ways, inwards or outwards. So goes an age-long wisdom. When the ThisDay newspaper, on 1 January 2025, announced President Bola Tinubu as its Man of the Year pick, emotions of Nigerians ran riot. Was that decision a product of editorial science or newspaper shamanism? Nigerians asked. To many, the newspaper’s editors …

Many people think — though erroneously – that Man or Woman of the Year, Person or Personality of the Year is given only to saints; even devils have a right to it, and have many times been so “rewarded” in the past! The award is usually a recognition of who impacted lives the most, globally or within a geographical location, …

The new year, 2025 will witness positive developments in Nigeria’s economy, President Bola Tinubu has projected. In his New Year message on Wednesday, the President said that, not only have economic indicators pointed to a positive and encouraging outlook for the country, the evidence have began to manifest. “Fuel prices have gradually decreased, and we recorded foreign trade surpluses in …

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has denied accusations from the Presidency that he threatened President Bola Tinubu over the controversial tax reform bill. In a statement on Tuesday, Mohammed’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mukhtar Gidado, strongly refuted the claims, calling them a misleading face-saving tactic by the Federal Government. The Presidency had recently responded to Governor Mohammed’s …

President Bola Tinubu has extended his deepest condolences to the government and people of the United States of America on the passing of their 39th President, Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Sunday. Carter was a beacon of service to humanity, demonstrating to leaders worldwide the profound impact of dedication beyond the highest office. As a …

I have been asked severally what my opinion was on last week’s Presidential Media Chat. First, I must commend the presidency for hosting the chat, though belatedly after 19 months of holding back. When the people hear directly from their leaders and not from third parties they didn’t elect, it affords them opportunity of psycho-analyzing the man at the helm …

It is important to address the concerns raised in Farooq Kperogi’s recent article, Tinubu’s Buharisation of NNPC, and to clarify some of the misconceptions about the operations and leadership structure of NNPC Limited (NNPCL). First, employment, promotions, appointments, and movements of business leaders at the NNPCL are not influenced by ethnicity, tribe, religion, or political affiliation. Therefore, decisions within the …

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 …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed heartfelt condolences with the government and people of India on the passing of former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. India’s Prime Minister between 2004 and 2014, Singh died Thursday at the age of 92. His official visit to Nigeria in 2007 was historic as he earned the distinct honour of addressing a joint session …