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The cabal led by General Mamadou Buhari used by the Britain and the West to overthrow the best government Nigeria ever had since independence could not have chosen a better name. The APC (Armored Personnel Carriers) is the most destructive force to have hit Nigeria and by proxy the entire African continent. The nation Nigeria […]

Over 100 days after President Buhari took office, Nigerians are still waiting for him to name his full cabinet. Despite the President’s promise to do so this September, the wait continues, engendering a palpable impatience with the long agonizing wait. Given that the cabinet is the starting point of good governance, few Nigerians fault the […]

As the Senate probes the power sector under the administrations of former presidents Obasanjo, late Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, it is difficult not to worry about Nigeria and its epileptic electricity, which has become an albatross, defying all possible solutions. Nigerians have suffered untold hardship as a result of no electricity and the nation’s economy […]

Images of refugees attempting to reach Europe through any and all possible means have dominated global media for weeks. Yet recent action by EU leaders to address this crisis, although laudable, in no way addresses the underlying challenges fueling the waves of migrants heading for European shores. Most of the migrants are refugees from war-torn […]

I have always wished the day would come when the people of Lagos will call their leaders to account for the way they managed the state’s resources, when the people will sit in judgment and punish the unrighteous servants who took them for granted. Well, that day hasn’t exactly come yet. But we have been […]

It is difficult not to reflect on the Buhari administration’s symbolic gestures in the absence of much-awaited substantive actions. Last Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Shehu Garba, announced less than N30 million in his personal account with Union Bank Plc, company shares, 270 […]

In a manner that was sufficiently self-indicting and far from being evocative of any civilized democratic values, some former ministers who served under erstwhile President Jonathan rose in angry protest over what they said was an “unduly partisan, ill-intentioned and bad faith vilification” of the Jonathan administration by the Buhari government. “We, the ministers who […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to outline the direction and goals of his economic policy. Even so, major players in the country’s economy are already feeling the impact of specific policy decisions as they are emerging. For a wide segment of these critical players, the impact is negative, even grave. Under Mr. Buhari’s watch, the […]

On September 8, 2015, it will be 100 days since the swearing-in of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President and his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) defied the odds and swept to office on the back of a near hysterical clamor for change. The March 28 presidential election was a historic victory, as it was […]

In the height of his very public fallout with then President Jonathan, Gen. Obasanjo wrote in an 18-page open letter that one of his grouse with Jonathan was that the latter had set up himself as the president of only the Ijaws.  I wonder how Obasanjo is feeling this morning after Buhari unveiled a kitchen […]

The passage of Prof. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, foremost diplomat and Nigerian Ambassador and Head of Missions in the United States of America, is a great national loss; but it is also an occasion for the country to celebrate a truly great life and a quintessential diplomat who stood to be counted when it mattered. By […]

This piece is not about former President Goodluck Jonathan, but it is important to focus on him to help us understand our current predicament. In June 2012 when the former president made his infamous “I don’t give a damn” comment during a presidential media chat, I knew immediately that it would define his presidency. As […]