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with Chidi Amuta Democracy and adversity are strange bedfellows. Hungry and deprived people either troop out to vote or look the other way at election time. Deprived people who observe

By Okey Ikechukwu Our people say that a toad which, facing an identity crisis, ventures into the air under the mistaken impression that it is a bird quickly falls back

Umaru Tanko Al-Makura There are seasons in the life of a nation when politics must rise above the pursuit of advantage and rediscover its larger obligation to society. Nigeria is

Olusegun Adeniyi Following his capitulation, (Major Chukwuma) Nzeogwu was brought to Lagos and admitted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where I went to see him. I asked why

I was startled at the weekend to see the announcement by retired Air Marshal Saddique Baba Abubakar, former Chief of Air Staff and former Bauchi State APC governorship candidate, that

Every language has words that travel. Wahala needed no translation when it crossed from Yoruba into Nigerian English and then into global consciousness. Everyone knows what wahala is. You need

Postscript by Waziri Adio In less than eight months, Nigeria will hold another presidential election, likely to be as fiercely contested as the 2023 version, if not more. The final

Olusegun Adeniyi Despite Standing Rules practically exempting him from serving as a principal officer in the 8th Senate, the name of a certain Godswill Akpabio was announced in plenary as Minority Leader on 28th

REUBEN ABATI Beyond the suffocating air of Nigerian politics, which gets far more problematic by the day, with its unending twists and turns, there are more sober happenings within this

REUBEN ABATI The most remarkable incident in Nigeria in less than a week, is all things considered how a political coalition has turned out as a collision, literally and figuratively,