Yesterday, we lost a comrade, mentor, friend and teacher, Dr Ṣẹ́gun Ọṣọbá. He was a patriot and socialist who was deeply committed to Nigeria. He was 92 years old and passed on peacefully at his Ijẹ...
Sadly for me, my fifty years of the study of political science has not helped me much in understanding Nigerian electoral politics. After 27 years of electoral democracy in the Fourth Republic and sev...
With the passing of Professor Adamu Baikie on Friday, 12 December 2025, Nigeria and indeed Africa lost a great intellectual, institution builder, and architect of modern education. He was someone who ...
I spent the last few days trying hard to understand the on-going rebasing of the Nigerian economy starting with the rebasing of the consumer price index. I watched the statistician general of the coun...
The star is not John Dramani Mahama, who has just been sworn in as the President of Ghana even if he too is a winner. The star is Ibrahim Mahama, no relation of John, a spectacular young artist we dis...
Last week, I watched members of the House of Representatives bitterly complaining about the contents of the Cybercrimes Act which they had themselves passed into law this year. They angrily directed t...
Premium Times carried a report yesterday posing the question whether people are losing hope in democracy. It outlines findings of an International IDEA survey which shows that voters in 19 countries, ...
Without warning, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has raised the electricity tariff for most urban households by 300% on the basis of a big lie. According to the Vice Ch...
The Federal Government alongside the governments of the 36 states are considering the creation of state police. This followed an emergency meeting between President Bola Tinubu and state governors at ...
“Anybody who headed a military regime subverted the wishes of the people… We all subverted the wishes of the people.” General Ibrahim Babangida (Tell Magazine, 7/12/98) Forty-three years ago, on the 1...
