By Punch Editorial Board AS they gathered during week-long low-key activities marking the country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary, Nigeria’s thoroughly discredited political leaders, despite their hypocritical precepts, could not ignore the prevailing mood of melancholy among…
By Akin Osuntokun What are the corollaries of either the All Progressive Congress, APC or the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP winning the 2023 presidential election? If Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu ticket wins the election, the…
By Akin Osuntokun If there is any behaviour that triggers palpable indignation in me, it is the dismissal and trivialisation of requisite urgent constitutional reforms in Nigeria. And this was precisely the behavior exhibited by…
By Ata Ukuta The recent radio interview where former President Olusegun Obasanjo said “My advice for Nigerian youths is that they should never let anybody tell them that you are the leaders of tomorrow. If…
By Ata Ukuta When the Speaker of the House of Representatives was vying for the speakership in 2019, he felt his God and religion would be an impediment. He quickly jumped ship from being an…
By Akin Osuntokun The choreography and orchestration began with the imposition of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC. Then in cahoots with so called Independent national electoral commission, INEC,…
By Sodiq Oyeleke The Peoples Democratic Party asked Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, to “stop his empty lamentations over the persistent banditry in the state”. Instead, the party urged him to “be on…
By Eddy Odivwri Last week, I promised to revisit an interview the then Gen Mohammadu Buhari granted this newspaper, in December 2014, as he was yet aspiring to win the presidential ticket of the All…
By Eniola Bello For several weeks now, Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has been running a daily front page strip advertisement, in at least four newspapers, which are, on the surface, a campaign for new…
JOHN ALECHENU takes a look at the faceoff between the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party over the removal of oil subsidy by the APC-led Federal Government prior to becoming Nigeria’s…
