Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba ethnic group in consequential federal appointments, the presidency circulated...
2025 has not been easy on Nigerians. The economy has looked far from bright; the weather has been suffocating; and costof living has been stubbornly oppressive. With...
By Farooq A. Kperogi When vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were “Fulani herdsmen,” countless Hausaphone Muslim northerners sent...
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As he settled in to deliver the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on 2 April 2025, presiding judge,...
by Tonnie Iredia Late Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the outstanding Nigerian who led the team that conducted the June 12, 1993presidential election recognized worldwide as the best in...
In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described...
By Farooq A. Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of Rivers State and his illegal imposition of a retired military...
I have just picked up my phone after breaking my fast to find multiple missed calls and countless messages about an alarming development: President Bola Ahmed...
It was February 24 2010. For weeks, the rumor mill had been in overdrive as speculation about President Yar’Adua’s health took on a life of its own. Some...
In the week in which former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai abandoned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to chart a different political trajectory with the Social Democratic Party...
At the outset, it’s worth noting that no nation or organization on this planet would provide a loan equivalent to half the size of a borrowing...
By Abayomi Akinbo The Tinubu administration’s decision to dust off the Oronsaye Report as a cost-cutting measure in the face of economic challenges was greeted by...