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If anyone needed a compelling argument against electing old and lethargic leaders whose breasts the milk of human kindness has long dried, the response by the present administration to the recent killings in the Yelwata community of Benue should suffice. For a round of violence that consumed an estimated 200 people, the press release issued […]

    Candidly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done very well with June 12 by taking the narrative from where President Muhammadu Buahri left off, and choosing to give that date, the history and the symbolism of it, form, style and substance. President Buhari, despite the somnambulism of his administration, it would be recalled, suddenly […]

There ought to be a law prohibiting certain categories of people from obtaining higher degrees in obscure higher institutions in their localities.  Even without one, there is an obvious risk for both the student and the institution.   I have covered Mrs Jonathan for years and yet did not know, until she mentioned it in […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Democracy Day address before the National Assembly was delivered with polish, poetry, and patriotic fanfare. But beneath the florid rhetoric and the saccharine invocations of June 12 lies a sinister contradiction: a government that claims to cherish multiparty democracy while actively orchestrating its demolition. Tinubu’s speech was not a celebration of […]

There are about 30 places around the world named London after, well, London, England’s capital.  About 18 of them, including three key cities, are in the United States.   In Nigeria, there is a “small London,” as the village of Abiriba in Abia State is informally called. And then there is a “London” in Delta […]

Thursday was President Bola Tinubu’s second anniversary in office.  He was a happy but deluded man, identifying, in his anniversary speech, “undeniable” progress.   “I proudly affirm that our economic reforms are working,” he declared.  “We are on course to building a greater, more economically stable nation.”   He was alluding to his abrupt termination […]

When I first heard Minister of Works David Umahi say that the Lagos-Calabar Highway would be completed by January 2026, I spilt my coffee.   “I assure you that by January next year, God willing, we will have this road completed,” he was quoted as saying during an inspection tour on Wednesday   I lost […]