Euro-America War: What are they thinking in South Africa?
In this inaugural newsletter, I talk about the difficult balancing act in South Africa, a new development in the payment...
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The criminal takeover of Nigeria
On May 29th, a certified drug dealer and the head of the mafia that has held Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital,...
Traffic Congestion In Abuja: A Growing Concern
Traffic Congestion In Abuja The Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Abuja is one of the leading states in Nigeria with the...
A peep into history – 4
Which of the following three things do you think should break IBB’s heart the most: The opportunity he missed being...
Buhari’s Dance to the Grove
I travelled to Edo North over the weekend. On our way, the cab I boarded had a flat tyre shortly...
A peep into history – 3
A young man was led into my office as the editor of The PUNCH one day decades ago; his name:...
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster of Civilization’s End
It involved bringing out the irregular or peculiar from society’s peripheries – at least as popularly perceived at the time. ...
The Sudan crisis and lessons for Nigeria
Last week, I traced the history of the current conflict in Sudan to the Janjaweed genocide in Darfur between 2003...
Sudan: The chicken is coming home to roost
As the 2023 sudan conflict continued the Janjaweed militia – a conglomeration of Arab-speaking pastoralists and camel traders recruited to fight...
Adamawa’s Bìlísì and Nigerians in war-torn Sudan
Crime and criminality are not gender biased. Nigerians should have no doubt about it. Whatever a man can do, a...
Fabian Ajogwu and Paradox of Corporate Governance
Over the weekend, Prof. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN, resigned from the Board of Directors of Seplat Energy PLC. This piece would...
Sudan: The Rogue Generals And The Stolen Revolution
When the deposed incarcerated Sudanese dictator, Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bechir, was in power he was made to look invincible. He...
Peter Obi: A Tsetse Fly Perching On The Scrotum
There is a Peter Obi witch-hunt that is ongoing. Undoubtedly, certain forces are after him. You can call it Obidients-phobia...
Awolowo and His Modern-Day ‘Disciples’
“…I do not stand here as the man who gave your land to the people of Idanre. I stand here...
Iwuanyanwu And The Proverbial Eran Ìbíye
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is the Chairman of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders. The octogenarian has been in the news...
Nigerian Supreme Court: Cowardice and strategic defection
Last week’s Supreme Court judgment granting all the reliefs sought by sixteen states against the federal government’s currency redesign policy...
Bola Tinubu, oun t’o lóó dà lo dà yìí o
The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where,...
Russian and African Legislators Meet, And What Next?
The Russian Foreign Ministry and the State Duma (the lower Chamber of Parliamentarians) have agreed to hold the next International...
Re-engineering Nigeria from the Viewpoint of Utopia
The root meaning of the word “utopia” is very interesting. And its trajectory from ordinary language to intellectual construct has...
Russia and South Africa: Emerging Challenges and the Way Forward
The Valdai Discussion Club has held brain-storming session on the topic “Russia and South Africa: Is Africa closer than it...
Post-2023 Policy Advisories: Youth Unemployment and Job Creation
In this piece, the focus of my policy advisory will be on the critical connection between education, unemployment and job...
Lady Diana, The Heir And The ‘Spare’
Lady Diana Harry William The then Prince Charles and now King had to wait patiently for 70 odd years to...
Change Agent Reformer- Leader Nigeria Needs in 2023
In May 2015, when he was sworn in as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, retired Major General...
Nostradamus: Of predictions and prophecies for 2023
By Bola Bolawole This is the period of the year when people make their New Year’s resolution, which is usually...
Buhari’s parting gift of a bleak Christmas
By Bola Bolawole Whereas Christians in many parts of the world celebrate December 25 every year as Christmas Day or...
Country for Bad Dreams: Vandalism on the Nullarbor Plain
“This is quite shocking,” declared South Australia’s Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher. “These caves are some of the...
Emefiele In The Eye Of The Storm
CHARLES OKOH Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank Governor, would go down in Nigerian history as the most controversial occupant of...
Russia Looks More Like A Virtual Great Power Than Genuine Development Partner for Africa
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh In its quest to strengthen post-Soviet relations and especially in the context of the emerging new...
Democracy without accountability: Nigeria’s unique democratic model?
Christopher Akor As a student of Nigerian government and politics, I cannot stop reflecting on the aberration that is...
Osun lootings and Oyetola’s jejune alibi
By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 When the new Osun State governor, the dancing-Senator now turned dancing-governor, Ademola...
