Third force: Peter Obi shook the political establishment in 2022 when he chose to run as presidential candidate of the obscure Labour Party. He captured the imagination Email: [email protected]...
Subsidy, fuel: Crude oil has been good to our nation. Very good, indeed. It is easy to rhapsodise our oil wealth and the little village, Oloibiri, where Email: [email protected]: 08055001912 Crud...
Judicial: When a doctor errs, he increases the population of the cemetery. When a judge errs in a criminal case, he increases the prison population. Think of the men and women who went to hospitals to...
I anchored a Newswatch cover story on our judiciary in May 1986. The story, Judiciary on Trial, was published in the issue of the magazine dated May 26, 1986. The decision to write the story arose fro...
It is not usually wise to jump to conclusions when something jolts the system in our political kingdom. It may raise hope that things are about to change. It is not usually wise to jump to conclusions...
President Bola Tinubu took the care of his fellow struggling Nigerians, also known officially as the poor, to the next level last month when he subsidised transport fares for those travelling home and...
President Bola Tinubu is energetically marketing the country to foreign countries and their businessmen. He has showcased the refurbished face of an investor-friendly country to the Arabs, the German...
I thought these two important items would be on Jagaban Bola Tinubu’s plate on his assumption of office as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One is the high cost of governance about which ...
Alhaji Dikko Umaru Radda, governor of Katsina State, launched his local security outfit, Katsina Community Watch Corps, on October 10. He rose to the existential security challenges facing his state. ...
The first hundred days in the life of a new administration is a respected American political ritual. It dates back to July 1953 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the phrase in a radio broadc...
