After confab, what next?
After four months of deliberations, the national conference will finally close shop on July 17. That is 11 days from now.
After guzzling billions of...
For Nigeria’s democracy, a new dawn
There are many people still in shock over the outcome of the governorship election in Ekiti, the state that prides itself as the “fountain...
Ekiti: Election as war
Penultimate week, our team of editors went to Ado-Ekiti to interview Governor Kayode Fayemi, one of the most cerebral governors in the country today.
Coming...
Politicising a ‘sacred stool’
Nigeria is in dire straits. And the reason is evident. We are in the silly season of politics and elections are around the corner....
Tinubu’s ambition, APC’s dilemma
There is no doubting the fact that former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has done well as a politician. He has...
Democracy, 15 years after
Nigerians celebrated 15 years of the country’s return to democracy on Thursday, May 29. This is the longest time the country has had uninterrupted...
The North, not Jonathan, must rein in Boko Haram
Two events concentrated my mind last week – the escalating violence in Nigeria with its mounting human toll and the coup in Thailand.
On May...
Chibok, my worry
After being in denial for one whole month, President Goodluck Jonathan finally planned on May 15 to visit the besieged Chibok community in Borno...
Nigeria: What a tragedy
Many times you hear “patriotic Nigerians” qualifying their country with such phrases as “giant of Africa,” “our great nation.” There is nothing wrong in...
Leadership lessons from South Korea
In his concise but revealing book, The trouble with Nigeria, the late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, stated emphatically that the only trouble with...
