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There 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 […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, Dele Oye, has lamented the unprecedented rise in public debt under the current administration, noting that the N65.9 trillion borrowed by the Bola Tinubu administration in the last 24 months exceeds more than five times the total debt Nigeria incurred in the first 55 years […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has secured the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket with 10,999,967 votes, defeating his only rival, Stanley Osifo (16,504 votes) for the 2027 general elections. If you thought you knew where President Tinubu’s strongest political backing ought to come from, these 2026 APC primary figures might make you rethink everything. The North-west […]
Continue ReadingFor more than a year, a conscientious, cosmopolitan retired senior military officer from the North has told me that his worst fear for Nigeria is the prospect of terrorists and bandits from the North extending their bloodstained tentacles into Yorubaland. He said it would provoke the sort of communal convulsion that would take on a […]
Continue ReadingLeader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church (IESC), Primate Elijah Ayodele, has revealed that some important members of the international community will not support Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027. In a statement signed by Osho Oluwatosin, his media aide, Primate Ayodele made it known that the president has all it takes to defeat the opposition parties, […]
Continue Reading“Where you have a warrior culture, you have heroes.” That is how the unusual character of Ibadan is explained on page 856 of Professor Toyin Falola’s 1,012-page history of the city. My eyes caught the line as I watched Saturday’s opposition political summit in the city. Opposition politics in Nigeria is post-apocalyptic, its script reads […]
Continue ReadingI was at Ada, Osun state, the other day, for the funeral ceremony of the founder and proprietor of the iconic Micom Golf and Hotel Resort, Prince Michael Ayantunde Ponle. Naturally, I went to commiserate with the widow, former deputy governor of Osun state and my admission officer at the faculty of social science, University […]
Continue ReadingAfrican Democratic Congress (ADC) has warned President Bola Tinubu to be concerned about a possible electoral defeat in 2027, saying that widespread hardship and worsening living conditions have eroded public confidence in his administration’s policies. The ADC, in a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said Tinubu appears increasingly detached […]
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