Opinion

A few weeks ago, the streets of Twitter were aflame with the hashtag #Securethetribe, an offshoot of a space hosted by Tariq Nasheed which was aimed at examining the effects of immigration on black Americans. In this space, Tariq Nasheed, a…

The news circle in Nigeria is now being dominated by stories of “adulterated” petrol in circulation at petrol stations. But petrol in Nigeria has been adulterated, inferior, low-quality, and toxic for a long time, and I’ve called attention…

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an interventionist agency created for the development of the oil-producing region of the country. Well, it is meant to be an interventionist agency, but one thing is crystal clear. Despite…

It has turned out that it was actually Buhari himself, not the Aso Rock cabal, who wanted Goodluck Jonathan to succeed him in 2023! Apparently, even members of the cabal were disquieted by this. The cabal played along for a while…

Foundational Black Americans are Black Americans whose ancestry can be traced back to slaves shipped to the Americas, from Africa.

Anyone who has monitored Nigerian political punditry in the institutional news media and on social media in the last few weeks would be led to suppose that only candidates of the improperly named All Progressives Congress (APC)—who are…

There is discordant tune among top Government officials on the contentious issue of removal of fuel subsidy. After a recent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan informed State House Correspondents “that the…

Imagine a freshman college student, seated in his dormitory room. Frozen, with sweat dripping and pouring down his body, his heart is racing with pinpoint pupils. He is wondering if it is the effects of tramadol he had taken some minutes…

On August 27, 1985, he was taken out of Dodan Barracks, the then seat of government, in Ikoyi, Lagos, by those who had overthrown him in what was popularly called a palace coup. President Muhammadu Buhari was not to return to a place…

The recent funeral of the late Aku Uka of Wukari, traditional ruler of the ancient Jukun empire, one of the oldest in the Nigerian territorial area, was a spectacle to behold. Thanks to social media and the democratization of audiovisual…

The Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari last week. Two names were very prominent in the assemblage: Margery Chuba Okadigbo, the Chairman, and Constance Harry Marshall.…

I was a Director of Communication for Alhaji Bashir Tofa's campaign organisation. I also later became the chief returning officer at the INEC Headquarters during the Presidential elections results compilation in Abuja. Now that he is…

There’s a City of David, not in Jerusalem, but in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. If the biblical City of David was magnificent, this one is no less so. If the earlier was a sight for sore eyes, the latter equally…

They were born just like any other person. They have fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, wives, children, just like the next man or woman. They pound their beats, in thunder, lightning or rain. The sun beats them till their eyes almost pop out…

The purpose of the President’s trip to Turkey, December 16th to 19th was to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, with an appealing theme: “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity.” Our national…

President Muhammadu Buhari marks the age of 79 on Friday 17, without the joy of being with the family and the country he governs, seeking to maximize bilateral benefits in critical areas of Nigeria’s safety, survival and economic…

When he popped out of his mother’s womb 79 years ago in rustic Daura, now in Katsina State, nobody could have predicted that he would bestride the country, nay the world, like a colossus. Who could have predicted that a honest man, Mai…

Let’s go down memory lane. In May, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari had led the Nigerian delegation to London to attend the global anti-corruption summit being hosted by the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron. We arrived London…

You have probably seen something on social media, which I consider a parody of lie merchants against our country. We will talk about it in a minute. But let me take an early digression to recall the story of a teacher we didn’t…

What’s the deal for youths in the country, particularly from the Muhammadu Buhari administration? That is a question that often comes from different quarters. Well, the deal for the largest demographic composition, representing about 65%…

I watched Lai Mohammed’s press conference where he tried to punch holes in the Lagos #EndSARS Panel Report. Before I destroy the seven grounds raised by Lying Lai in his futile attempt to cast aspersions on the courageous work by the…

UniIlorin rarely courts publicity. During my service year in 2008, the most outstanding trait of their crop of graduates was prompt mobilization for the mandatory national youth service scheme. That, coupled with their hitch-free…

There’s no institution that cannot atrophy or degenerate, if like a fish, it begins to rot from the head. And that was the story of the Nigerian Army at a point in time, when there was a deliberate policy to emasculate and debilitate it,…

As you read this piece, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team are in the French capital, attending the Paris Peace Forum, a gathering of about 30 Presidents and heads of governments from around the world. The Nigerian leader is among the…

He rarely speaks on things that do not have to do with the work of the Kingdom, which he is completely sold out to, and has been engrossed in for over 50 years. In fact, he exemplifies the words of the prophet that “he shall not strive, nor…

Dire warnings of the end of the world are as old as civilization itself. But each year as the countdown to United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) begins, they grow in volume and intensity. Recently, senior United Nations officials …

There are millions of us around the country who follow Muhammadu Buhari passionately. Some got enlisted in 1984 when the man was military head of state. Others joined along the line as the principal was Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund…

On the first anniversary of October 20th, 2020, like many Nigerians, I have struggled with coming to terms with the sobering events of that day. My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives, loved ones, sustained injuries,…

I was a child during the Nigerian Civil War but I have good memories of the destruction and death from the war itself and the death from kwashiokor of at least a million children who died of starvation. I remember the death of my uncle…

The plethora of arguments centering on the unjust structuring of the Nigerian federation by the British Colonial masters, which has given the north unfair advantages over the south in the distribution of national resources and allocation of…