MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas O’tega Ogra, senior special assistant to the president on digital communications, engagement and strategy, has criticised Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, over his recent praise for Argentina’s economic reforms. On August 11, Obi had said hunger and poverty in Nigeria are a result of incompetent leadership […] Read more
By Muhammad Sabiu MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas At a two-day summit held recently in Kaduna, the organisers of the event the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation invited top government officials to interact with stakeholders from the North on the administration of President Bola Tinubu. While, top government functionaries insist the region has got its fair share […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Monday Lines My literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years ago, Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, cursed his enemies in a song that they would challenge a moving vehicle, stand arrogantly in its front and […] Read more
By Dr Wumi Akintide MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Facts are the only tools that the Tinubu’s Critics and the Opposition from the North or South can only use to decide whether or not Tinubu would deserve to be re-elected in 2027 It’s only fair to let the voters decide which candidate gets their votes based on […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Since the ADC’s unveiling on July 1 as an opposition coalition platform, he said, divisions between the North and South-East have grown more pronounced. Dumebi Kachikwu, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has alleged that northern political elites are urging former President Goodluck Jonathan to run in the […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Everyone who cares now knows that subsidy removal is merely a fancy term for taking money from the previous oil cabal and giving it to governors and the president who’re frittering it away on frivolities while the people suffer. Today’s column focuses on Femi Falan’s advice to Tinubu […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In the kaleidoscopic turbulence of Nigerian politics, where discord often drowns out dialogue and egos flare like Harmattan wildfires, the 10th Senate under Senate President Godswill Akpabio has emerged as a lighthouse of stability, reform, and nation-building. Since its inauguration on 13th June 2023, following the proclamation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Take It Back (TIB) Movement has vowed to launch a nationwide protest in response to the reported detention of its convener and 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, by the Nigeria Police Force. According to this newspaper, Sowore arrived at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on […] Read more
By Bola BOLAWOLE MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas (PUBLISHED IN MY “TREASURES” COLUMN ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE WEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST, 2025 EDITION OF THE NEW TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER). “A fruit, as they say, does not fall far from its tree. And when we develop the habit, and savour the taste, of throwing ourselves into a fray, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Good Riddance to Rubbish: A Response to Kemi Badenoch Dear Kemi, By Idris Muhammed Abdullahi Let’s be clear: the Vice President of Nigeria does not speak for all 200 million Nigerians and certainly not for us. He was being generous when he called you “one of us.” But from the sound of […] Read more
