Opinion

My phone pinged: “Tell Mark Essien they are coming for him.” I had no idea what that even meant. It was a forwarded WhatsApp message that someone had sent to a friend of mine. All I was doing was trying to convert PDFs from the 2023…

In the drug world, names like Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, Griselda Blanco, Roberto Suárez Gómez, including the controversial Manuel Noriega, were regarded as among…

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Thursday, said that the office of the Senate President should be zoned to the southeast. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, National Coordinator, HURIWA,…

Historically, elections in Nigeria have always been chaotic. But this year’s elections were taken to a new level. The elections were land mines laced with crude improvised electoral devices (IEDs) such as violence, intimidation,…

No woman likes a clingy, insecure man. But that is what we Yoruba's are becoming, a frightened, insecure and second-rate nation. So fearful that we can’t even accept one of our own because his mother is Igbo. There was a time when the word…

Ace journalist, Mr. David Hundeyin has lambasted those he referred to as 'Yoruba ethnoracialists' supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is a renowned "drug lord". Mr.…

INEC had four years and significant resources to prepare for elections which are the bedrock of democracy but again signally failed to discharge its simple duty in the full glare of the watching world. Millions of Nigerians, though starved…

The last eight years or so in Nigeria had to convince even the doubting Thomases that we have not been living in normal political times. With a paralyzed leadership, most Nigerians have had their intelligence vacated or ruptured. The…

Let us forget Peter Obi for a moment. Like Atiku Abubakar, Obi is busy right now gathering and "collating" evidence for his challenge in court of the "victory" of Asiwaju BAT Tinubu in the presidential election. Now what does one say about…

There’s a long and storied history of rigging in Nigerian elections. With election results behind us, it seems Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be the Nigerian President for the next four years. The 2023 presidential election is bound for the…