Analysis

It was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the…

This is the ABC of Osun State governorship election case for a layman. Let me just explain what happened to you in the simplest of ways. 1) The BVAS is truly a game changer and should ordinarily be above manipulation. 2) The BVAS…

Stingy is a very common word, which in simplest definition means "ungenerous or unwillingness to spend money". We have dug deeper to see if any dictionary definition says stingy means unwillingness to spend money unnecessarily. Of…

In this piece, we are of the conviction that Nigerians are a step away from being clinically pronounced 'dead' in terms of commitment to defend democracy and constitutionalism and this threshold will be determined by the quality of the…

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic - Williams E. Gladstone. The argument for Muslim/Muslim ticket found…

"Alhaji Tanko Yakasai is unknown to the All-Progressives Congress, APC. Everyone is entitled to their view, but what we do know is that his insight in a recent interview does not come from within the party or the President’s team. His…

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Thursday, charged the Independent National Electoral Commission to put in place seamless mechanisms for the registrant HURIWA charges INEC to ensure…

Growing up, there was this expression we took both as a joke and a rebuke for one exaggerating: no one who examines him or herself has ever failed. This maxim filled the mind while hearing or reading President Muhammadu Buhari score…

The more I think of it, the more I realise that there is an access that needs to be granted before one can see farther than his nose. By that access, this writer warned that the 2014 merger, if it succeeds in bringing Buhari in, will…

Street wisdom dictates that those in glass houses don’t walk naked. This seems lost on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and the flagbearer…