Cooking democracy: Is INEC chef or mere waiter?
In the kitchen of Nigeria’s democratic experiment – where the smell of reform and the smoke of recycled promise swirl together – the Independent National Electoral Commission has once more…
Editorial: Femi Otedola’s Making It Big in a Rigged System
Femi Otedola has gifted the world his memoir, Making It Big: Lessons from a life in Business. A generous gesture, indeed because nothing says “self-made” like a billionaire explaining how…
Power sector: The watts that weren’t! – By Abiodun Komolafe
There was a delusion that the privatization of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalization of the…
Editorial: America’s Assault on Nigerian Free Speech
The United States has long positioned itself as the world’s champion of liberty, democracy, and free speech; and never tires of lecturing the world about censorship and human rights. Yet,…
Editorial: DNA Tests Are Blowing Up Nigerian Families
Nigeria is sitting on a family time bomb; and DNA tests have lit the fuse. The latest Smart DNA report just dropped, and it’s a nightmare that should terrify every…
Editorial: Raye and NYSC’s Cowardly Assault on Free Speech
In the annals of Nigeria’s long and shameful betrayals of liberty, the withholding of the – NYSC discharge certificate of Ushie Rita Uguamaye – known to millions by her social…
Editorial: Kwam1 Must Face Justice, Not Just a No-Fly List
When the rule of law bows before celebrity, the skies grow dark. Last week, Chief Wasiu Ayinde Marshall aka Kwam1, turned Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport into his personal stage,…
Editorial: El-Rufai, ADC, and the APC’s Meltdown
There comes a moment in the life of every failing empire when it begins to mistake criticism for treason, and opposition for madness. The All-Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have…
Editorial:Tell Your Papa & Tinubu’s Shameless War on Free Expression
Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly…
Editorial: That Depressing UNICEF Report on Nigerian Children
There is no eloquence left for this shame. Only rage. Cold, righteous rage. Nigeria, the self-proclaimed “Giant of Africa,” has become a tomb of innocence. A nation where childhood is…
Editorial: Kemi Badenoch – A Dangerous Obsession Consuming Nigerian Officials
There is a stench rising from Nigeria’s political elite, and it is the rancid odor of cowardice masquerading as patriotism. Their unrelenting obsession with British Conservative Leader, Kemi Badenoch has…
Super Falcons: Queens Of Africa – By Reuben Abati
Nigeria’s senior female soccer team, the Super Falcons are the Queens of Africa given their superlative, dominant and creative performance, their resilience, and agility at the just concluded Women’s African…
Editorial:”Tell Your Papa” & Tinubu`s Shameless War on Free Expression
Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly…
Editorial: Power-Drunk and Constitutionally Illiterate Senate
Once again, the Nigerian Senate has demonstrated that power, when wielded with impunity, becomes indistinguishable from tyranny. With the recent court ruling invalidating the six-month suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan,…
Editorial: Atiku’s Exit from PDP and the 2027 race
In what may be the most consequential political move of the post-2023 era, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has formally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), severing ties with…
The Buhari I Covered: A President Misunderstood
When I joined the State House Press Corps in November 2015—six months into President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term—it felt like history was being written in real time. He had swept…
Editorial: Nigeria & Trump’s Undiplomatic Visa Snub
The world must now look, with eyes unblinking and voice unbowed, upon the latest act of diplomatic derision committed by the American leviathan dotard. Cloaked in the tattered robes of…
Coalition Or Continuation? Nigeria’s Politics On Repeat
In Nigeria, politics is many things, but boring is not one of them. We have a political culture where the pot never stops calling the kettle black, where defectors become…
ADC: Déjà vu all over again?
This phrase was coined by Yogi Berra, a famous American baseball player who is remembered for many iconic phrases now known as “Yogi-isms.” Of this particular construction, Yogi, who died…
2027: The Clamour For Jonathan’s Return
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, there has been subtle clamour for former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s return to active politics to contest the presidential election. Nigerians championing this call…