President Muhammadu Buhari will commission five projects in Lagos State in January 2023. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the projects include the first phase of the Blue Line rail from Marina to Mile 2, and the groundbreaking of the second phase of the project from Mile 2 to Okokomaiko. Others are the Lekki Deep Sea Port, Imota Rice Mill, the 18-kilometre …

Five years after he was reported dead and his clone named Jibrin from Sudan stepped into his position, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he did not find the rumour funny. In 2017, President was so ill that he spent considerable time abroad to take care of his health. For a long time, his traducers insisted that President Buhari was …

Let me start with a story told by an unrepentant critic of one of our former Presidents. There was no love lost between the two, and the antipathy was mutual. That former President is a rather forceful personality, and loves to have his way. It’s either his way, or no way. One day, while he still occupied the Presidential Villa, …

Ahead of his 80th birthday tomorrow, many political leaders have been congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari and eulogising him for his service to the nation. They included the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege; and Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In a statement by his …

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged to the ECOWAS Court of Justice by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over illegal pipelines and oil theft. In a statement on Sunday, SERAP said that it filed a lawsuit against the current administration for its “failure to probe the operations of illegal oil pipelines between 2001 and 2022, …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday unveiled the re-designed Naira notes as proposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). On Tuesday, CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele had said that the President would unveil the newly designed N1,000, N500 and N200 notes. The unveiling marks the first time in 19 years that Nigeria would redesign its currency notes. Last month, Emefiele …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate removal of Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah as the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Fadah is barely six months in office. Appointed in May, Fadah took over from Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim as the 19th person to hold the position. President Buhari, who has earned a reputation of keeping government officials …

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction – Pablo Ruiz Picasso President Muhammadu Buhari has been the butt of cruel jokes in the past one week! What the president must have thought was innocuous, social media read meanings into it such that Buhari would be wondering what really went wrong! In fact, the president and his spin …

Mother, mother/Why/Why was I born Black? – Okot p’Bitek in Song of Lawino As I woke up on Friday morning, lay in bed and performed the routine of prayers, meditation, and introspection, it ministered to me that we die every day but also wake up every day, until, finally, we die one day never to wake up again. Or, if …

We set forth at dawn, because ahead lay a long haul journey. Fifteen hours of flying, as we headed to Seoul, South Korea, to attend the first World Bio Summit. It was not the longest journey one had taken. We had been to Japan, which was 16 hours. As much as I don’t dread flying, nothing beats having your feet …