I am a proud citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, legal practitioner and a politically conscious and concerned compatriot. I write this open letter to you with a deep sense of passion, untainted patriotism and good intent for…
TODAY, I woke up with a sigh of relief, in expression of happiness, because Nigeria has come to the terminal date of the nationwide protests, organized in objection, or disagreement with what the protesters called, bad governance. Bad governance…
IN October 2001, the management of The Punch sent me to the South-East, ostensibly to coordinate political reporting for the newspaper in the zone ahead of the 2003 elections. I then made Abia my base, from where I roved around…
THE 10-day nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that end today, known by the reduplicative compound “Zanga-Zanga” in Hausaphone northern Nigeria, have ruptured the coalition that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu managed to build with a portion of the northern Nigerian Muslim political establishment…
MANY Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike have repeatedly asked me if the Supreme Court was not wrong in its interpretation of section 162(3), (4), (5) and (6) of the 1999 Constitution and what happens to the allegedly wrong judgement. They want…
THE Nigerian Bureaucracy sulks .There is hardly anything done for national interest. Every file or every. assignment is an opportunity to make money or advance a personal interest. The Nigerian Sports bureaucracy is worse. Hijacked by a cabal, they have…
NOTHING illustrates the dreadful and dire consequences of our situation, the misdirected situation of Nigeria, particularly those of us living in northern Nigeria, than the above quotation from the French political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I picked the quote from…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu should count himself lucky. What he feared most has happened to him. What his predecessors in office could not do, he has done effortlessly. What others before him, including him, had used in the past…
ACTIVIST lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has accused business mogul, Aliko Dangote of using Nigeria’s money to become Africa’s richest man yearly. Adeyanju said Dangote had killed a lot of businesses in Nigeria because he hated competition. The constitutional lawyer disclosed this…
THE nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that are convulsing the neoliberal fundament of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration are redefining and redrawing the contours of protests in Nigeria in many significant ways. Although I’ve been on the road since Thursday, here are…
