Oath of office: Nigerian governors swear allegiance to the president. Why?
This subject has gestated in my in-tray of column ideas for some time. It first caught my attention during the...
- Thursday, June 25, 2026
BusinessDay
This subject has gestated in my in-tray of column ideas for some time. It first caught my attention during the...
One of the popular myths around Bola Tinubu, stemming from his time as governor of Lagos State, was that he...
Once upon a time, a political party bestrode Nigerian politics like a colossus. It governed Nigeria for 16 years and...
Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s new president, was determined to hit the ground running from his first day in office. He was...
The president of Nigeria is extremely powerful. He’s even more powerful than the US president. It is conventional to describe...
For over eight years, since I started writing a weekly column in this newspaper in 2014, I repeatedly called for...
In theory, Nigeria is a representative democracy; in practice, it is not. Unlike in a direct democracy, where people determine...
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai is an unrepentant religious bigot; a militant Islamic supremacist, who believes Islam is superior to Christianity, and...
General Ibrahim Babangida erred tragically and did a great disservice to Nigeria by annulling the presidential election of June 12,...
When General Olusegun Obasanjo became president in 1999, he was under pressure from the international community to tackle corruption frontally....