Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the renaming of 15 airports after some prominent Nigerians. One of them – Maiduguri International Airport – is named after him. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by the Head of Press and Public Affairs of the Ministry of Aviation, Odutayo Oluseyi. According to the statement, the airports include Akure International Airport …

A former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has said President Muhammadu Buhari  has set traps for the incoming successor, President-elect Bola Tinubu. He disclosed this while highlighting the failures of the outgoing administration. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the eighth National Assembly, said President Buhari wanted his regime to look better. He also accused President Buhari of …

Which of the following three things do you think should break Ibrahim Babangida’s heart the most: The opportunity he missed being a national hero and an international statesman with the annulment of the 12th June 1993 presidential election won fair and square by Moshood Abiola; the death of his wife Maryam; and his present state of health? Despite Babangida’s many …

Change, change. Sai Baba, sai Baba. The words that filled the streets on Tuesday, 31st March 2015 after the then President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat and congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the presidential election. Sadly, the darkness and chaos to come was unprecedented and drastic. Buhari emerged from the All Progressives Congress (APC), established in February 2013, as …

President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation for the last time on Sunday, and said emphatically that is leaving Nigeria better than he met it eight years ago when he first assumed office. President Buhari, a former military Head of State, leaves the stage tomorrow for his party’s candidate in the last presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who beat a …

Barely 48 hours to the inauguration of another administration, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his eight years tenure has doubled Nigeria’s infrastructural fortunes. In a statement on his verified Twitter handle on Saturday, President Buhari said that Nigeria’s stock of infrastructure to Gross Domestic Product have grown significantly by 20 per cent under his watch. He noted that without investing …

President Muhammadu Buhari will at 7:00 am on Sunday deliver his farewell message to Nigerians. In a statement on Saturday evening, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said: “President Muhammadu Buhari will make a farewell broadcast as President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on Sunday, 28th May, at 7 am”. He advised television and radio stations, …

As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to exit office on Monday, a Nigerian journalist has expressed displeasure over his eight years administration. The Canada-based former newspaper manager, Chief Femi Shodunke said that the souls of those killed and kidnapped under President Buhari’s administration would haunt him forever. Reacting to a statement that President Buhari would be addressing the nation on Sunday …

The title of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s account of his stewardship as Nigeria’s President kept plodding in my mind as I thought through a heading for this piece. Nigeria’s third President of the Fourth Republic authored My Transition Hours, which was published in 2018. It captures the breathtaking frenzy and flurry of activities and developments preceding, and immediately following his contest …

By design or default, politics – like governance – is an art and a craft of infinite variations. It is definable in hope and despair; expectation and doubt; fair play and chicanery. In its art form, the ideals of democracy are dainty and purposive. This product of the fine points of human nurture ,natural justice and democratic culture was founded …