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I can’t remember having met Mr Tunji Disu personally. But I am happy to inform him that many of my colleagues who spoke about him when he was appointed Inspector-General

Boisterous “Mr.Goody Goody ( not the real name)was on his way to Ghana. But he is fondly identified by his friends as  flamboyant, boastful,  and  likes to jolly jolly where

At the end of my series on Dangote last year, I really did not think that I would not return to that fascinating subject. Indeed, I am rather surprised that

Hatred of foreigners in South Africa is a perennial feature of that society subjecting Nigerians there to an increasingly dire fate. Fresh indications are that the sentiment runs deeper than

My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of engagement with development partners (especially with such multilateral institutions like the World

Politics in my dear Ekiti state has always been highly spirited. The state, carved out of the old Ondo state in 1996, earned a reputation for political volatility in the

There is a peculiar species of Nigerian politician who mistakes noise for authority, name-dropping for power, and the passage of time for the conferment of ill earned relevance and Senator

In a 28 October, 2024 interview recorded by AJ Ghambari, then-United States Vice-Presidential nominee to President Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, who is a veteran of the US Marine Corps and

There is a familiar rhythm to governance in most democracies. As election cycles draw near, the machinery of state often slows, sometimes deliberately. Attention shifts. The calculus of power takes

At exactly 7:10 am on the 103rd day of 2026, Dr. Lola Kosoko, a 46-year-old soil scientist with 18 years at a Lagos State public university and over 38 peer-reviewed

Thursday’s court decisions have left the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) facing uncertainty and division as they look ahead to the 2027 general election, reports

As the election cycle draws closer, the guide rails of democracy that enable citizens to tell what is real and what is not real are under increasing attack. Truth, without