Tinubu’s Chatham House absurdity and attack on press freedom
About two months ago, I received a surprise call from a loyalist of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
About two months ago, I received a surprise call from a loyalist of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate...
For most of his seven-and-a-half years in office to date, President Muhammadu Buhari ran Nigeria with such insouciance that suggested...
Professor Charles Soludo, governor of Anambra State and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is a first-class...
Before the 1993 presidential election, General Ibrahim Babangida, then military head of state, made a profound statement. He said: “I...
State governors have an outsized presence in Nigerian politics. Indeed, Nigerian state governors are probably the most imperious yet ineffectual...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, is a woman with strong political and social consciousness, who is outspoken and unafraid to...
Last week, I wrote that Nigeria lacks sophistication for issue-based campaigns because, too often, politicians talk with utter ignorance yet...
Ask most Nigerians, they would say they want issue-based politics; they want election campaigns to be issue-based. Countless column inches...
A few weeks ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research and analysis arm of the renowned Economist media group,...
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s vice-president, is a man of God, a pastor. Like all men of God and pastors, he...