President Tinubu during his recent inter-faith breaking of the fast with members of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the leadership of the Inter-Party Advisory
There is a certain ritual that has become almost ceremonial in Nigeria’s annual budget season. A president walks into a joint session of the National Assembly, presents a fiscal plan
For now, the joke is on Nasir el Rufai, the petit former governor of Kaduna State in his travails with anti-corruption agencies over allegations of corrupt practices. As governor, El
In the theatre of national security, there are moments when the stage stops behaving like a stage. The curtains remain drawn, the actors continue to speak, but the audience begins
Africa, on March 17, set a woeful record: anointed its 2025 continental football champions from the boardroom, after sacking the field winners! You could trust Morocco to gripe and whine
SIR: Since the return to democratic governance in 1999, and more pointedly from 2003, the politics of second-term governorship in Benue State has followed a troubling and predictable pattern. It
SIR: In an increasingly interconnected world, a country’s global relevance is shaped not only by the strength of its domestic policies but by the depth of its diplomacy—how effectively its
SIR: In every political cycle in Nigeria, emotions often run higher than reason. Too often, we reduce complex national challenges to one individual. We point at a leader and label
May 2016. British Prime Minister David Cameron, had, during a Buckingham Palace reception by Queen Elizabeth II ahead of an anti-corruption summit in which Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was in
Nigeria’s ambition to build a $1 trillion economy by 2030 is no longer a rhetorical flourish; it is an economic necessity and the administration of President Bola Tinubu appears bent
Retired, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Taiwo Lakanu, who is the Chairman, Committee on all Police Matters and the Representative of the South West in Police Service Commission (PSC)
The Cross River State Government, weekend, commenced the disbursement of a ₦500 million business loan facility to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), signalling a decisive pivot to a people-centred