Sunday, August 16, 2026

Azu Ishiekwene

September 25, 2025

A cabal in plain sight wants more

We need more risk-takers like Dangote, not self-serving unions and unionists feeding off our misery.

Aliko Dangote and Dangote Refinery
September 19, 2025

Useni’s fight for London house from the grave shames us

Should the Nigerian Bar Association pretend that it’s OK for lawyers to contrive and invent evidence actively without a rebuke?

Useni’s London house
September 11, 2025

An unusual view of banditry

If they talk like bandits, strike like bandits, and leave behind a trail of sorrow, tears, and blood, then, for me, they are bandits, jihadists, criminals, and terrorists.

Bandits attack
September 11, 2025

Why Jonathan won’t contest, whatever the courts say

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Labour Party’s presidential flag bearer in the last election, Peter Obi, are perhaps the two most serious contenders.

Goodluck Jonathan in PDP dress
August 28, 2025

Nigeria’s top oil boss walking into a trap 

It’s fine if Ojulari fancies his task as raising the dead, but a long, distinguished list of his predecessors who tried were lunch for the beast.

Bashir Ojulari
August 25, 2025

Putin as the president’s medicine

Beyond Trump-Putin lovefest, Zelenskyy’s brinkmanship, and Europe’s indifference to genuine Russian concerns about being encircled, something must give for peace to take hold.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
August 14, 2025

What Happened In the Matter of Bayo Ojulari?

Audit queries are not unusual in accounting, and issuing threats over a six-year “unaccounted” sum that focuses mainly on assets and not liabilities is foolish.

Bayo Ojulari
July 24, 2025

Peter Obi’s dangerous game

Obi has fallen for the seduction that his salvation lies with joining Atiku, Amaechi, and former Governor Nasir El-Rufai in a coalition to nowhere. I’m shocked.

Rotimi Amaechi, Peter ObI and Nasir El Rufai
July 17, 2025

Musings on Muhammadu Buhari

If indifference and aloofness plagued Buhari’s presidency, this became even more palpable towards the conclusion of his second term.

President Muhammadu Buhari
July 10, 2025

Again, Trump’s way or the highway

Apart from Trump’s way and the highway, there is a third way for those willing and able to pay the price.

Trump sitting with Ramaphosa