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On Monday, August 4, 2004, one week after he made a speech at the Democratic Party’s convention in Boston, I wrote a column for the Nigeriaworld called “Obama:...
The 2023 presidential election is pregnant with history in ways no other election year has been in recent memory.
Nigeria is often referred to as the giant of Africa. This reference used to be reasonable when considered from the positioning of the country, its human...
When Obasanjo favoured northern Christians in appointments during his administration, he defended his action by insisting that he was guided by considerations of competence, not religion...
I was fed up with the unendingly immature political melodrama and indiscipline of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary and national convention on June 7,...
The 7th Abia State House of Assembly ably led by Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji is and will remain committed throughout its lifespan to the deepening...
As of right now, the auguries are looking quite favorable for Tinubu to emerge as APC’s nominee in tomorrow’s primaries but, as the cliché goes, a...
I was processing the news of the vicious murder and burning of a 30-year-old man by the name of Ahmad Usman by a mob of wretched,...
In Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unusually acerbic and desperate political speech in Ogun State on Thursday, he dropped four unmistakably broad hints that he will transition to...
There is no question that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the main character in the movie of APC’s 2023 presidential politics. Others are mere pawns or supporting...
With the help of Aminu Tambuwal, Atiku Abubakar has defeated Nysom Wike to win the PDP presidential primaries. I’ve seen people exultingly proclaiming that Atiku will...
I am officially emotionally divested from the possible outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Irrespective of who wins it, Nigeria will at best remain the same...
The only major political party that INEC's 6-day extension of the primary election timetable is designed to benefit is APC. There's no question about that. PDP...
There seems to be a heightened (social media) obsession in Nigeria to call people out for what crimes they haven’t (yet) condemned—or that they have condemned.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which also masquerades as Eastern Security Network (ESN) or Unknown Gun Men (UGM), has stepped up premeditated mass murders of...
I am intentionally appropriating, and extending the semantic boundaries of, the term “blasphemy” for this piece because it seems to be the only term that inflames...
