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One bright day in February 2017, Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, told a rally of her husband’s Zanu-PF party: “One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper. You will see people voting for Mugabe as a corpse. I am seriously telling you – […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, barely a day after official campaigns began for the 2027 presidential election, Atiku pledged to restore petrol subsidies if Nigerians elect him president. That pledge, more than anything he has done lately to dislodge Tinubu, is the clearest signal yet that he is prepared to wrest power from the president. Before now, Atiku […]
Continue ReadingKunle Olawunmi is a retired Naval Commodore, former Deputy Director of Defence Administration at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), and Professor of International Relations, Diplomacy, Strategic Studies. In this interview with PHILIP IBITOYE, he discusses Nigeria’s governance failures, constitutional reform, Yoruba self-determination, the implications of President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the Yoruba people, amongst other issues. […]
Continue ReadingIn his Independence Day address to Nigerians, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday declared that Nigeria has moved beyond the difficult phase of his administration’s economic reforms, saying the country is entering an “age of prosperity” focused on jobs, production and improved living standards. He made the declaration in his Independence Day address to Nigerians as […]
Continue ReadingIn a suit was filed on Monday September 28, the African Action Congress (AAC) has dragged President Bola Tinubu, the Attorney General of the Federation and other senior government officials before the Federal High Court in Abuja over the President’s failure to transmit power to Vice President Kashim Shettima during his prolonged vacation outside Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingThere is something profoundly unsettling about the selective elasticity of the Tinubu presidency’s capacity for outrage. Its vocal cords appear to be in fine fettle when Catholic clerics call attention to the misery that government policies have visited on Nigerians. Those same vocal cords mysteriously retreat into quiescence when a prominent Muslim cleric transforms the […]
Continue ReadingThe high- level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, Vice Presidents, Ministers, and at least a Crown Prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been established in June 1945. […]
Continue ReadingThere is an old Nigerian joke about Noah and the Ark; author unknown. God warned Noah that a flood was coming and gave him six months to build an ark. But this Noah was a Nigerian. Before he could cut the first plank, Nigeria happened to him. How did it start? “And the Lord spoke […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja on Sunday, August 30, 2026, to begin a three-week working vacation in Europe as part of his annual leave. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, disclosed this while speaking with journalists on Sunday. The statement said: “Tinubu will depart Abuja on Sunday (today) […]
Continue ReadingA disturbing pattern of unending, self-destructive administrative chaos in appointments to consequential public office positions is defining the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government, which signposts Tinubu’s lack of control of his government and the reality of a shadowy, disorganized, feuding and mercenary cabal of conscienceless influence peddlers in the Presidential Villa. Muhammadu Buhari pioneered this sort […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has on August 28, 2026 filed a legal application in a U.S. federal court pleading to block the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Department of Justice (DoJ) from releasing unredacted law enforcement records on him from the 1990s. Aaron Greenspan, transparency activist, had filed […]
Continue ReadingAtiku Abubakar, former Vice President, has fired back at President Bola Tinubu, describing his attack on his proposed petroleum-sector intervention as the insolent sermon of a failed economic experimenter who mistakes Nigerians’ capacity to endure suffering for evidence that his policies are working. The former vice president had said he will restore oil subsidy if […]
Continue ReadingUS District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to process and release non-exempt records concerning a 1990s Chicago drug investigation linking current Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. US Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, has initiated action in federal court to comply with the US courts’ orders concerning […]
Continue ReadingIn the build-up to 2003 when the then incumbent Governor Olusegun Osoba was seeking re-election on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and then incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo was also seeking re-election on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, the political slogan in Ogun State was ‘Segun L’oke, Segun Ni’sale’. The idea was for voters in […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has approved salary increases ranging from 30 to 80 per cent for personnel of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, with about 250,000 personnel expected to benefit from the new pay package. Approved by the President, the salary increase will take effect from September 1, 2026, according to a statement issued by the Special Adviser […]
Continue ReadingA grandson of Uganda’s former military ruler, Idi Amin Dada, is Aziz Abdul, better known as “Ringo.” Like his grandfather, the young Ugandan is a super-heavyweight boxer who competed at the Commonwealth Games, which ended yesterday, August 2. He left the ring at the weekend convinced that he had been denied victory by a biased […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians Today, we celebrate not only democracy but also the enduring Nigerian spirit. For 27 unbroken years, since May 29, 1999, Nigerians have chosen their leaders through the ballot, witnessed peaceful transitions of power, and resolved disagreements in courtrooms and legislative chambers—not through violence. We have experienced the longest stretch of civilian rule in […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi, the 2027 presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over what he described as excessive borrowing and poor fiscal accountability. Obi said Nigeria’s total public debt has risen to about N200 trillion, which he attributed to what he called “imprudent governance” under the current administration. The […]
Continue ReadingBorn on 29 May 1926, former Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade turned 100 last Friday, making him the first West African leader in history to become a centenarian. But the remarkable story of Wade is not just about age. A long-time opposition leader, Wade ran for president four times in a period spanning 22 years, beginning in 1978, before […]
Continue Reading“Tinubu Must Go” protests took place in Port Harcourt on Monday, June 1, , with hundreds of residents, youths, and coalition leaders taking to the streets to demonstrate against soaring inflation, severe economic hardship, and government policies. Demonstrators carried placards and chanted slogans calling for the president to step down. See the video below: Happening live […]
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