BY IDUH ONAH FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s recent promise to restore fuel subsidy if elected president in 2027, though…
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BY OWEI LAKEMFA THERE were the beautiful political party dresses, worn with pride as their wearers danced in the streets…
BY LANRE OGUNDIPE EVERY change at the top of Nigeria’s civil service carries significance far beyond the ceremony of handing…
BY IDUH ONAH ALTHOUGH this column ordinarily appears every Wednesday, I have found myself compelled by both reason and sentiment…
By Max Amuchie IT BEGAN, unexpectedly, with a telephone call one evening in May. I was at my desk in…
NIGERIAN politics is so serious that it is no longer left in the hands of politicians. Or so it seems.…
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli THE NIGERIAN ruling class under the…
Introduction IT IS GETTING to almost five decades (since 1982) when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) started persuading…
BY OWEI LAKEMFA IT APPEARS the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of world oil passed before…
BY LAWAN MUSA DANLAMI NIGERIA’s democracy is facing a subtle but increasingly disturbing challenge: the growing tendency of political power…