Tinubu’s damning Buhari verdict and why the President shouldn’t be Moses
Last Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally emptied his chest about his now late, latter-day political partner and presidential predecessor,…
Arewa and 2027 sucker theory
EVEN before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced on Wednesday, during the inauguration of his armada-esque campaign council for his re-election,…
Osun and anti-Tinubu campaign in the North
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu is supposed to be a native of Osun. At least the governor, Ademola Adeleke, openly made the…
“Mama” @ 80 and other birthday stories
LAST Monday, the pioneer Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Chief (Mrs) Oluremilekun Debbie Olowu was 80 and…
Koro Ibo, Oladejo and Lagos APC search for ransom
Last Thursday, I found myself in a “political” space with the Director General of the Bola Tinubu/Kadri Obafemi Hamzat Campaign…
PHCN’s hideous tariff hike
I read somewhere recently that the government said it preferred that consumers be metered than for PHCN to hike tariffs.…
PhD @28, Original Japada: What a slogan!
FOR multiple reasons, my preference will always be for suave people, particularly, men. The root of the adjective is in…
South-West and the weight of “Alajobi” votes in 2027
IN 2023, of the 8,794,726 votes that sent Mr. Bola Tinubu to Aso Rock presidential villa, only 2,279,407 of them,…
The man who will be president
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should not have been president in 2023. He really was almost not. A witness told me the…
Robbing collective Peter to pay selected Paul?
Another anarchist was on the prowl last week. He threatened to deny peaceful Nigerians their fundamental and constitutional right to…
The gospel according to PBAT
THE headline of this column isn’t original to me. I had titled the piece “Osun and what belongs to Caesar”…
Omisore’s bombshell memoir and Babafemi’s prophecy
Last Sunday, Senator Iyiola Omisore and I had a fairly lengthy conversation about Nigeria and her politics. He had read…
Onaiyekan, President’s aroko and an enemy’s playbook
IN his successful re-election run in 2019, then-Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai, cocked a snook at the Holy Quran’s prodding in…
Badejo-Okusanya: Again, S/West gets into unwanted dispute
PENULTIMATE weekend’s win of the Nigerian Bar Association’s presidency by Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, is the third consecutive time her South-West…
Uba Sani, Speaker Abbas’ feud may cost Tinubu
IN the build-up to the recently concluded nomination exercise of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), it wasn’t a secret…
Will Umahi go the way of Gallego, Khan?
THIS Friday, July 24, the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague, Netherlands, will determine…
Divine verdict and bó ba o pá Osun politics
OSUN, the state of the Living Spring, is awash with dead bodies and flowing from its tributaries is the shed…
Nasarawa and the que sera sera sermon
HISTORICALLY, there was a man regarded as the world’s first trillionaire in dollars. That was long before his modern version,…
Ozekhome: Travails of a legal luminary!
PROFESSOR of law, Mike Ozekhome (authorities say he can’t answer Silk for now), has always been a colourful personality, maybe…
Let’s pray for the president!
JUST like the country he presides over, President Bola Tinubu looks run-down. The saying “like father, like son” is mainly…
