Away from the happenings in the Middle East, and in the light of a lack organisation by opposition, I wish to reiterate a point I made about this time in 2023. Whether you like him or not, studying President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political career is basically studying applied Nigerian power politics in slow motion. There…
In the cutthroat arena of Nigerian politics, where loyalty is currency and betrayal is the ultimate power play, President Bola Tinubu wields his blade with Machiavellian precision—slashing through allies the moment they outlive their usefulness, leaving a trail of discarded pawns in his wake. “Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate…
The head has always held a prominent and spectacularly unique position in human evaluation and in most cultures it has been accorded spiritual significance. The head is regarded in biblical terms as both the symbol of authority and source of authority in human relationships. The biblical Jesus is regarded as the head of the Church…
The news of 58 out of 146 students making First Class degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, has garnered attention. Many of the comments were derisive of it. They wondered how this could have been and whether it was not an affirmation of the ubiquity of the low quality of education, decline…
Don’t try and be on any diet in Lagos and then go for any of these owambe parties. I am begging you! See me, I was doing well on my diet plan and seeing small small results o. We then went to one of those Lagos lavish parties. Good crowd. Good venue. Very good music….
Growing up in my corner of the world, long before I ever boarded a plane or held a U.S. visa in my hand, one artist schooled me on the matters of the heart. Lionel Richie. His voice was a balm, his pen a compass. Out of his many masterworks stretching back to his days with…
If they were not venomous, snakes would probably garland the necks of the rich and the influential to delineate social class. With a body handwoven by its Creator, the snake is the most awesome creature, epitomising engineering fluidity among wildlife. Its fleeting mobility, intricate symmetry, stretchy sinews, delicate precision and frightening fatality define a brute…
News of the death of Jesse Jackson has prompted a flood of tributes across the world. Many of them rightly celebrate a man who stood, for decades, at the barricades of the struggle for civil rights in the United States—marching, organizing, speaking, and insisting that Black lives carried the same dignity as any other. He…
When the October 2025 alleged coup was linked to several officers attached to the office of the national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, I was extremely troubled. I never doubt the loyalty of Nuhu Ribadu to president Bola Ahmed Tinubu and to the Nigeria nation but the fact that military men assigned to work with him…
As Rivers State moves steadily toward the 2027 governorship election, 3 dominant political forces shape the emerging landscape: Governor Sir Siminalayi Fubara’s bid for continuity, the enduring grassroots dominance of Minister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike’s Renewed Hope political family, and the strategic posture of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at both national and state levels. The…
