Editorial: Guard Peter Obi, Save Nigeria
A democracy is tested not by how it treats those who govern, but by how it protects those who seek to replace them. That is why the recent alarm raised…
Editorial: Confiscation of Malami, Emefiele’s Properties & Matters Arising
The architecture of despoliation, wherein the Nigerian State abandons the tedious inconvenience of the judicial process and a court trial to embrace the profitable efficiency of confiscation under the guise…
Editorial: Misplaced Triumphalism Over Freed Oyo Children
There is something profoundly insulting about a government that stages a victory parade every time citizens are rescued from criminals who should never have captured them in the first place.…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Diplomatic Slumber over Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians
For a nation that prides itself on being Africa’s giant, Nigeria has developed a curious habit of behaving like a timid bystander whenever its citizens abroad are brutalized. The latest…
PFIPC scandal: All smoke, no mirrors – By Sonala Olumhense
When something truly curious happens, such as the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) scandal, we pivot to outrage. But that is when you learn the most about yourself and…
Editorial: PFIPC – What Did the Presidency Know, and When Did It Know It?
It is an established maxim of English constitutional history that the British Empire was acquired in a fit of absence of mind. The Nigerian state, it appears, is currently being…
Editorial: PFIPC And Tinubu’s Omnipotent Con Artist
It would appear there is no limit to the odium Nigerians will suffer at the hands of the administration of President Bola Tinubu, because just when the regime seems to…
Abdullahi Ganduje – How Art The Mighty Fallen?
In the grand, chaotic theater of Nigerian politics, power is often measured not by the longevity of one’s ideals, but by the volume of currency; both literal and metaphoric, that…
Editorial: Deregistration of NDC & Matters Arising
With barely seven months remaining before Nigeria’s next general election, the architectural plans for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election are becoming flagrantly obvious. It is a strategy that relies less on…
Editorial: Democracy Day in a Republic of Fear and Insecurity
President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day address was an exercise in a peculiar form of political optimism: the sort that flourishes most luxuriantly when reality is at its bleakest. One almost…