Opinions

Love in Tokyo is the title of a 1966 film that became a hit at the box office. Since then, when men and women, boys and girls show affection to one another publicly, you often hear “love in Tokyo.” But we only landed in Tokyo, and took a 30 minutes’ drive to Yokohama, Japan’s second […]

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport, was commissioned over40 years ago, and remained, Nigeria’s premier gateway, until,the new Abuja, International Airport was opened for use this year. Regrettably, in retrospect, since, the MMIA was commissioned, no major attempt was made to refurbish and sustain smooth running, customer friendly, operations at this,earlier, celebrated, aviation facility. Presently,aviation hubs […]

The impropriety was simply mind-boggling and inexcusable, but the assault of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who was attacked by members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Nuremberg, Germany last Saturday was pathetic, disgraceful and devoid of any perfunctory exaggeration. The video of the incident that went viral on […]

“So, did you join the #RevolutionNow protests yesterday?”   “Which Revolution?”   “The #RevolutionNow protest led by Omoyele Sowore. The security people grabbed him ahead of the August 5 protests, but the Grand Coalition for Security and Democracy still came out in full force in Lagos and Abuja.”   “Yes. Yes. We did. But it […]

  In the spirit of the anti-corruption drive of the Buhari regime and given the way and manner this drive has gone to fumigate the public finance sector of governance, especially at the federal level thereby freeing humongous resources that were hitherto fleeced by operatives of government, there is this wish writ large in the […]

Outright shock, disbelief and disappointment united most Nigerians in their reaction to the much awaited cabinet list unveiled Tuesday by Senate President Ahmed Lawan. After dithering and spasms of indecision, the 43 ministerial nominees fell short of expectation in view of its composition; but more because the President gave himself almost two months to search […]

Over 47 days after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in for a second term, Nigerians are still waiting for him to name his cabinet. Despite the President’s promise to appoint only people he personally knows, the wait continues, engendering a palpable impatience with the long agonizing wait. Given that the cabinet is the starting point of […]

Even by their own ignominious standard of delinquency and bad manners, the video footage of Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo, assaulting a women in a sex toy shop in Abuja, where he had gone to make some purchases and his conflicting statements over what transpired, including his tepid and belated apology set a new low, in […]

Today is exactly 35 days since Buhari was inaugurated for a second term in office. It is also exactly 127 days (more than four months) since the President was presented a Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission after being declared the winner of the presidential election conducted on February 23 2019. Since […]

The Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, finally bowed to pressure to step aside from the pulpit to pave the way for the investigation of allegation of rape made against him by Mrs. Busola Dakolo. He announced his decision in a statement just as the Christian Association of Nigeria […]

With the election of the leadership of the National Assembly, which sees APC taking full control of both chambers, there are these tall expectations that governance in the next four years will proceed at a faster pace than in the last four years where the National Assembly leadership operated as the defacto opposition to the […]

Today’s reflection was inspired by Buhari’s recent reiteration of the determination of his government to run ‘an inclusive government ’. Speaking recently when he received a delegation from Nasarawa State, led by Governor Abdullahi Sule, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari was quoted as saying: “In the next four years, I want to assure you […]