By Wole Olaoye There are only very few instances of humiliation and frustration that can compare with what the average Nigerian goes through in a quest for a US visa. You would think America was Paradise or something close. You would think that the applicant’s very life depended on the granting or denial of that […] Read more
Basil Okoh The widening crisis in the Delta State chapter of the PDP is both alarming and shameful, as the Okowa faction which is backing Sherriff Oborevwori continues to sink deeper into desperation and dissonance. The report that jobbers for Sherriff have moved into Oghara town to look for 1999 graduates of Oghara Grammar School […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG In that Video, the VP Candidate of APC is saying he will be in charge of SECURITY and Lead Nigerian Troops, while Bola Tinubu will Handle the ECONOMY, Whaaat!? 😱😱😱 Do you Understand the IMPLICATION?! We will talk about Tinubu Handling the Economy and Lagos being the 3rd largest Economy in Africa (BIG […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has confessed that the supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, are everywhere. He stated that the ‘Obidients’ have ideas and vision. While cautioning the big political parties, (PDP, APC), Fani-Kayode advised them to play their cards very well. In […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye To what extent does the last presidential election in Kenya foreshadow what is likely to happen in Nigeria in 2023? I am not one to draw undue parallels, knowing as I do that there are different intervening variables and sub-texts which may render a blanket generalisation sterile. However, there are many similarities […] Read more
By Ken Chioma It’s going full circle. Like a cyclone routing the weeds in a farmland of wheats. The Peter Obi-Yusuf Datti movement, aka Obi-Datti movement, has become all that’s the beginning and the end of discourses in Nigeria. It’s an awakening that has all the trappings of a revolution. It’s indeed a revolution and the […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In this week’s Saturday Tribune column, I argue that ASUU’s insistence that it will punish students, who’re mostly from poor homes, by continuing with the strike or making them have automatic “spillovers” because the FG won’t pay them for work they didn’t do while on strike is both cowardice and […] Read more
Basil Okoh The critics of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party show a clear pattern and intent to defame him by tying him to an irreverent and tumultuous youth population and agitations for IPOB and Biafra. They want to make him a tribal and regional candidate against the groundswell of evidence of national likeness […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju Like graceful, snowy egrets basking in the afternoon light, the Pyrates Confraternity sailed out last week on the streets of Lagos. In white and scarlet, they did it with much noise and got lots of shrieks from owls and bats of the night. It was their outing; the beauty of their song […] Read more
By Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi Unofficial historical records claim that Muhammadu Buhari’s father was a poultry farmer from Niger Republic who came to settle in Northern Nigeria and eventually married a Kanuri Muslim from today’s Borno State. Muhammadu is therefore the 1st generation Nigeria citizen from the Buhari lineage. What a privilege for him to […] Read more
