The cover picture and subject matter of this piece comes from China. It was used by even a non-Nigerian newspaper to illustrate the coming emptiness of streets in China in the wake of its de... Read more
Ahead of the February 2023 presidential poll in Nigeria, former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has released a letter endorsing one of the three leading candidates, Peter Obi of the Labo... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA The founding moment of the Obasanjo/Atiku love-hate relationship would be difficult to pinpoint immediately but early 1999 remains the turning point in that now conflictual i... Read more
Is the Peter Obi presidential project as fragile as to be hypersensitive to criticism and such that any criticism of him makes the critic vulnerable to mobilisation of collective anger and h... Read more
By Ike Okonta Sonala Olumhense, the distinguished journalist, attended an event in New York last week where Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, gave a speech. According to Ol... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq “First they came for the communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a s... Read more
By Ike Okonta Professor Patrick Utomi graciously received Chiedu Ezeanah, the poet and journalist, and I in his hotel suite in Rockview Hotel, Abuja on a rainy Friday evening in early July.... Read more
By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The wisdom that if the eye is not fixed on the sky, it has nowhere else to makes any sitting president vulnerable to probing engagement. There is though the late Prof Eskor T... Read more
The point is that the presidential candidates of both the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) have totally captured the political space, overwhelming th... Read more
