President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is arguably Nigeria’s most successful political godfather alive. Over the past 16 years, Jagaban has successfully installed his preferred candidates as governors of Lagos State. Beyond installing governors, he has also installed 85% of all political office holders in Lagos State. His political influence extends beyond […]
Opinion
English philosopher and psychologist Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” (1820-1903). He is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserts that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply to human societies, social classes, and individuals as well as to biological species developing over geologic […]
One of the unfortunate things the Nnamdi Kanu issue has revealed about the Igbo political and civil society ecosystem is that most of those at the helm of discussions or those who have been given authority to speak on behalf of Ndigbo have chosen treachery as a leadership strategy. Rather […]
What is happening with governance in Nigeria at the moment? Indeed, it is not a ruse to say that the quality of governance has never been this appalling and scandalous in Nigeria which is regarded as the biggest black democracy in the World. What with the suffocating celebration of poor […]
On Tuesday, a final nail was drilled down the coffin of the last vestige of judicial distraction on the legitimacy of His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma as the duly elected and legitimately affirmed governor of Imo State, when the Nigerian Supreme Court took Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome […]
The Chief Undertaker of Imo PDP, who, until recently was the National Secretary of the same Party he has invested most of the last five years trying to destroy has come out once again to prove what we have all known about him; that fraud is his biggest talent in […]
In the shadows of our homes, an insidious crime often unfolds unnoticed, perpetuated by silence and ignorance. Domestic violence, a scourge that thrives without witnesses, finds strength in the ease with which it can be brushed aside. The Spring of Hope for Girlchild Development Initiative (SHoGDI), led by the indomitable […]
Former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Defense, T Y Danjuma yesterday in Enugu State described a former minister of petroleum, Allison Diezani-Madueke as exceedingly corrupt. The retired general argued that Diezani’s record of corruption is yet unbeaten in Nigeria’s political history. Inasmuch as the retired military chief has […]
I actually played the iconic song of Fela Anikulapo Kuti titled ‘Teacher, don’t teach me nonsense’, throughout the period of drafting this piece on the most recent position of Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Lateef Fagbemi on the dangers to the nation’s economy posed by the […]
There is not a single one of the opposition candidates in the last governorship election in Imo State who didn’t know he was going to lose the election, and I can tell you that there is none among the key contestants; Athan Achonu and Samuel Anyanwu, who wouldn’t have supported […]
