“Aunty, I’m not coming to school tomorrow. The police killed my father.” – Emmanuel Jumbo-Ochigbo When six-year-old Emmanuel Jumbo-Ochigbo got into the blue-coloured Golf hatchback to...
I don’t know why a few state governors are running around, dragging President Muhammadu Buhari by the hem of his agbada to save them from the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) congratulates Nigerians for coming out en-masse to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, February...
As the final results of last week’s presidential poll were released, three broad groups emerged: Those genuinely surprised that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku...
If you walk by sight you cannot help approaching Saturday’s presidential election with a heavy heart. The candidates of the two major parties, Muhammadu Buhari of...
These days Nigeria is treated as either the continent’s worst joke or the world’s laggard for democracy. From Nairobi to Brussels and from London to Washington,...
At this rate, President Muhammadu Buhari may beat former military President General Ibrahim Babangida to the record of collecting the most abusive letters from a former...
The first sign of chaos is the number of senior advocates of Nigeria who offered to take up the matter free of charge. Often, when you...
Get this straight: Atiku Abubakar will lose the presidential election on February 16. I’m not Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka or one of the tongue-in-cheek seers whose...
The general election in 51 days will be different from previous ones in nearly two decades in many ways. Money is one way. At this time...
With less than two months to go, concerns by the opposition that next year’s general elections would not be free and fair appear to be getting...
Exaggeration is the most common strain of fever at election period. Politicians make voters – and the general public – believe that the world might end...
It’s difficult to say which one was worse: the original falsehood or the misinterpretation and rebroadcast of its parody as gospel truth. The fugitive and self-acclaimed...
