By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Monday Lines (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 20 April, 2026). “Even a corpse put in a coffin will defeat Tinubu in 2027.” ADC chieftain and northern politician, Buba Galadima, gave that promise at the ADC convention last Tuesday. He was wrong. The corpse, the coffin and the […] Read more
By Wale Adeleke MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Under international law, any unilateral attempt by a state to blockade the Strait of Hormuz would face serious legal objections. The Strait qualifies as an international strait used for navigation between one part of the high seas or exclusive economic zone and another (UNCLOS Art. 37). It is therefore […] Read more
By Clifford Ndujihe, Luminous Jannamike & Olayinka Ajayi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas LAGOS — The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has snowballed into a full-blown political war, with three rival camps laying claim to the soul of the party in what insiders describe as a fierce “winner-takes-all” struggle ahead of the 2027 general […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas This week’s Saturday column talks of Tinubu’s rumored bid to impose a Lagos boy “Yoruba” governor on multi-ethnic Kwara and the risk of igniting ethnic backlash and deepening the exclusion of a region of the state that has never tasted power. Tinubu’s Yoruba Agenda Risks Deep Rupture in Kwara By Farooq A. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas I watched a faction of the ADC conducting what they described as their party Convention a few days ago & it was pitiful. I saw an overcrowded hall filled with hot, sweaty, men & women, most of them looking worne, tired & undernourished. They wore orange caps & were using pamphlets & […] Read more
By Bola BOLAWOLE MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Prussian war strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, defines war as the continuation of politics by other means. In other words, when diplomacy fails, nations resort to war to achieve the same objectives they had set out to achieve with diplomacy. Thus, war is not an end in itself but a […] Read more
By Dr. Richard Ikiebe MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Nigeria’s recent history has exposed the limits of our leadership model of 27 years. Partisan politicians, as presently organised, are trapped in short-term, extractive incentives. Technocrats in government, however competent, have mostly failed when inserted into that same political machine. Together, they represent failures of design, and not […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In the high-stakes theater of Nigerian politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu operates with a level of intentionality that is often misunderstood as mere luck. His leadership style is not built on accidental patronage, but on a rigorous, multi-tiered vetting process designed to ensure institutional continuity. May be you have heard of “The […] Read more
Sunday Wale Adeniran writes from Abuja MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Will they bring back fuel subsidy? Will they reverse the floating of the naira? Will the unification of the exchange rate in both the official and parallel markets be reversed? Will they cancel the student loan which everyone has attested to that a student does not […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Monday Lines War commanders die cheap deaths; farmers are murdered on their farms, traders in their shops, landlords vanish on their lands, tenants in their rented rooms; students abducted from their studies. What more must happen before we become what Italians would call “Paese dei Morti” (Country of the […] Read more
