Tinubu Biting the Bullet from Day One
Tinubu Biting the Bullet from Day One President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is under fire for announcing that petrol subsidy is...
Thursday
What Should Tinubu Do About The National Assembly
Two presidents in the last 24 years provide interesting examples of how to relate with the National Assembly. And between...
Dangote Refinery Challenges Global Narrative
It started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction....
The Fowl of Mecca and Nigeria’s Census Palaver
We have a measurement problem eloquently illustrated in a Yoruba tale about a Mecca has-been. The fellow in this tale...
A British Example in Our Rascally Times
When King Charles, the head of the Church of England, is crowned on May 6, there would be two very...
Africa: Why Does Burna Boy Rock More than Nigeria’s Elections?
From Accra to Cape Town images of Nollywood, Nigeria’s popular movie footprint, are a common staple in homes across the...
INEC Server and Other Election Day Stories
For the third time since 1999, I voted at a general election on February 25 and did so without much...
Dear President Buhari, Before You Step Down, Step Up
Dear Sir, You are without doubt an enviable man for so many glaring reasons. One of which is that you...
Osinbajo: A Leader for All Seasons
Trying to fit him into a mold can be sometimes problematic. I have always thought of him as a teacher...
What Really Matters to Obasanjo
The last thing he wants to hear is that he desires anything other than what is good for Nigeria. Hero...
Nigeria’s election and the pollster’s albatross
With all the predictions of Armageddon and doubt about whether Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls would hold it does...
Looking back, facing forward as Nigeria decides
It’s hard to imagine that it’s nearly eight years since. This time in 2015, I was over the moon with...
Musings After 48 Hours with Raila Odinga
At first, he appeared to be the most unlikely candidate for the task. After his fifth attempt at running for...
A leader like Jacinda Ardern
A leader like Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand doesn’t come in tens. Not even in twos. And so, it was...
Why they shoot friends and spare the enemy
Her funeral rites would have begun on Wednesday, January 11, but were postponed because her family, along with the Nigerian...
The Trouble with Obasanjo’s Wish
I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own...
America, watch your back!
Former US President Donald Trump didn’t just happen to the United States. He hit the world like the climax of...
The letter, the spirit, and The Letterman
If there was a prize for Nigeria’s number one letter writer, journalist-turned-lawyer and one-time minister, Tony Momoh, would appear to...
Soludo’s Whistling Kettle And Peter Obi’s Closed Tea Cup
There is a reason this column is titled “From The Fence” and has remained so for a long time, though...
Will Ghanaian President Survive This Storm?
Not so long ago, he was the poster boy of what looked like an African renaissance. Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo didn’t...
Cabals of Nigeria: Past, Present and Future
Some words suffer prejudice, that is, they are not allowed to ‘explain’ themselves or to be put in right context...
Do campaigns have to be bloody to win?
If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what...
Kukah’s Stories and Broken Truths
If you haven’t had a good laugh, you have not been with him. And anyone who knows him knows I’m...
Have The Hustlers Finally Ousted Kenya’s Dynasties?
One of the ironies of politics is how easily fiction becomes reality, and reality, precedent. Before our eyes, the president-elect...
Will machines replace journalists, too?
The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the...
Election Gambit: Australia, Sri Lanka and Politicising Asylum
When it comes to the tawdry, hideous business of politicising the right to asylum, and the refugees who arise from...
7 things to know about the 2023 elections
Election time anywhere in the world always brings with it telling effects in the society in every aspect; from the...
What History Says About How Buhari’s Successor Will Emerge
I think the most frequently asked question today is, who will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari? With over 35 aspirants openly...
Dariye, Nyame, serial decamping: Abuse of constitutional democracy
As controversial as presidential pardon is everywhere in the world, that of Nigeria is truly bizarre. For President Muhammadu Buhari,...
Dear President Buhari, Look At The Mirror, They Are Praising You Away
Dear President Buhari, Greetings and hope this meets you well. It is a honorable thing to seek to be...
