Tinubu’s Independence Day speech: Between aspiration and description
I listened to the independence message of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. His struggle to assembly plausible statistics to push across…
And Oskar, the Skido, just skidded off
Like the old block, the chip, Oskar, was intentional in style, taste and delivery. For instance, if you mistakenly did…
Even for labour unions and their leaders, there is expiry date
In product manufacturing, especially food and drugs, there is something called expiry date. It is the date set on the…
Tinubu: A call to refocus the reformer
The rest of us are not doing enough to help President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reform Nigeria. Here is a…
The recurring decimal called ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has its own idea of how public universities should be funded and operated…
When the bench and bar in Warri sat and stood for Shaba, the police officer
It is not the type of story one hears every time about the Nigerian police. To command a consensus of…
Tinubu must hear this: The North is marginalised
Amid the pains, we are always not too willing to give President Bola Ahmed Tinubu any flowers. On impact, his…
Coalition presidential ticket: Open letter to Atiku Abubakar
Dear Waziri, Last week, I ended on a hopeful note. That, it is possible to dispatch Caesar for Rome to…
Peter Obi and the new face of politics
Peter Obi has worked himself into a box of control instruments. He is the barometre with which pressure on the…
A coalition and its many tendencies
It is too early to worry about the coalition to fight Tinubu in 2027. Even if the lion is ensnarled,…
Nobody is learning from the mistake of Buhari
It is like no lesson was learnt. I had expected that after the demise of former President Muhammadu Buhari and…
Buhari: The making of a tragic hero
Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari died on July 13, 2025. He wasn’t quite the coward alluded to by William Shakespeare in…
Coalition beware: Tinubu is not Jonathan
The one that is already in and seated is called APC. The one that is outside and itching to be…
The graveyard peace in Rivers State
Peace is the complete absence of strife. It happens when all sides have accepted the given conditions as negotiated by…
Letter to General Musa on Okuama five forever in detention
Dear CDS, I am writing to bring your attention back to Okuama. Perhaps, it is not a very nice thing…
Amaechi’s endless voyage of reinvention
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has a way of saying the right things to court public attention. He talks as if he…
2027: Between the streets and the State House Asaba
Delta State politics follows a pattern. It is a turn-by-turn arrangement to ensure that the governorship of the State follows…
The development of underdevelopment
THIS is not the best of headlines. It contradicts common sense. The lexis and syntax are yelling for a harmonious…
