Opinion

THIS was first published on September 23, 2019. Considering the recent moves to return Nigeria to regionalism, I see the need to repeat it. Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities fashioned out …

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday said that the Sultan of Sokoto was much more than just being the Sultan, as he represented an idea. Shettima added that the Sultan was an institution that everyone including himself revered. He said “The Sultan is the Sultan of Sokoto. But he is …

Last week, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf painted a pathetic picture of the state of primary education in Kano. “Above 4.7 million pupils are sitting on bare floors to take lessons while about 400 schools have only one teacher for all classes subjects and all pupils,” said Yusuf who put the …

On 12 June – a day set aside to commemorate 25th years of Nigeria’s unbroken democratic experience last week Wednesday – President Bola Amhed Tinubu tumbled and fell. That’s the consequence of choking off the president from visible dystonia or huntington disease, a genetic disorder that causes involuntary muscles contractions …

President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day broadcast of 12 June did Ibadan incalculable dishonour. The speech celebrated heroes of Nigeria’s 25 years of civil rule with very scant mention of Ibadan’s fight against the tyranny of military rule. Was it an institutional slight of the city of Ogunmola, the great warrior? …

He loudly told Edo people that he abhors godfatherism and frowned at any attempt by anyone to input that he was a godfather. He blackmailed political leaders in the state that the reason they were against his politics of egocentricity was on account of his stance against godfatherism. He whipped …

Tamino was a man about town. He played on the field and sowed generously. He gave himself as well as his substance. He was the Nigerian version of Don Juan. He knew where all a girl’s buttons were and once he got his fingers on them, he kept them there …

  As far back as December 29, 1987 ( 37 years ago), Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, had already taken on the Federal Government of Nigeria on behalf of the Nigerian masses regarding the issue of subsidy removal on petroleum products. Ozekhome had sued the then military dictator, President …

(Monday Lines, published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 10 June, 2024) “A large percentage of them are from Niger Republic, Mali, and Chad.” The six South-West states are being overrun by an army of homeless young men of unknown address and of mystery background. Some snakes have beauty; their …