Tracking Nigerian public projects – By Sonala Olumhense
In the end, last week’s Arise TV interview with the Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, ended somewhat productively. I had moments when I feared an outbreak of fisticuffs across…
Daring the Dangote monopoly – By Lekan Sote
Nigeria’s tribe of pseudo-socialists and Marxists, who hardly understand the demands of economics, appear to be behind their trade union ideological kinsmen who are fighting Dangote Refinery, possibly on behalf…
Nigeria @ 65: What manner of celebration? – By Kunle Somorin
There is a kind of miracle that does not announce itself with fireworks or fanfare. It does not wear medals or make headlines. It simply endures. It survives the storm,…
Bola Tinubu’s ‘anti-corruption war’ – By Sonala Olumhense
Strictly as a calendar issue, I would never have put the name Bola Ahmed Tinubu and combating corruption in the same sentence because I could identify nothing in his track…
Wike’s U.S. Property Scandal: When Political Hubris Meets Global Accountability
In the theatre of Nigerian politics, few figures are as combative and unrelenting as Nyesom Wike. The former governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory…
Tinubu-For-Life. For Where?
By some curious coincidence, the subject of tenure elongation and extension of Presidential term limits caught the headlines in the last few days in Nigeria. In Accra, Ghana, at an…
To elevate Nigeria’s youth – By Sonala Olumhense
As everyone knows, I am extremely critical of the EFCC, which was established as Nigeria’s hope for a saner society. My criticism is even sharper each September, the month in…
Killing The Opposition Softly: The Wike Template – By Nasir Aminu
The frustrating thing about being in opposition is that you have to fight so many battles with various institutions, like the judiciary and the law enforcement agencies, that are supposed…
Wole Soyinka and the Ridwan Akinfenwa phenomenon – By Sonala Olumhense
I share Wole Soyinka’s outrage: the roar of a celebrated writer and Nobel Prize winner whose accolades travel ahead of him wherever he goes. A man who has taught in…
Our Man in France – By Reuben Abati
“So, where is President Tinubu, my brother?” “What do you mean where is President Tinubu? He told you and everyone else that he is travelling to France and the UK…