Sometime in January this year, a senior Lagos-Ibadan journalist called my attention to a news story in which Hannatu Musawa, President Tinubu’s Minister of Art, Culture,...
Nigeria’s democracy is once again standing before an uncomfortable mirror, and the reflection is neither inspiring nor hopeful. What should have been a season of political...
Yesterday, human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, called my attention to a simple but important legal point that has been lost in the public discussion of...
The rumour sounds like a political heresy: Peter Obi, the face of Nigeria’s 2023 ‘Third Force’, reduced to campaign Director General (DG) for Atiku Abubakar in...
The dust may not have fully settled on the conventions of what is gradually emerging as the three main political parties in the country, the All...
INEC said it investigated its chairman and found him not guilty of the allegation that he tweeted partisan support for Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election...
With INEC’s overtly partisan, intentionally illegal, and possibly remote-controlled withdrawal of recognition for the David Mark-led ADC, Nigeria has officially reverted to full-on Abacha-era suffocation of...
Although structural, political, and economic conditions appear to constrain any credibly concerted impediment to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 reelection chances, at least from my admittedly...
Now that Abdullahi Ganduje has issued a (tepid) denial of Nasir El-Rufai’s televised allegation of his complicity in Abubakar “Dadiyata” Idris’ unexplained disappearance, I have a...
There was a time when Adams Oshiomhole’s name was synonymous with resistance, courage and labour struggle. He was the voice of the voiceless. He was the...