The Plumb Line

Former President Goodluck Jonathan asked the question "who is fooling whom?" concerning the coup d'etat that took place towards the...

The arrival last week, in the United States, of a high-powered Nigerian government delegation somewhat made me recall a popular...

William Shakespeare says in his political play "Julius Caesar", "The heavens themselves blaze forth the deaths of princes." And so...

I, apologetically, have borrowed the title of this piece from Visha Nipaul's first novel "The Suffrage Of Evira". It satirizes...

Nigerians are a very excitable people. Happenings in far away lands are lapped up with glee. But there is also...

A fortnight ago, President Tinubu did the unthinkable, whatever made him do it. The timing was inauspicious; the occasion was...

Americans, specifically, lovers of democracy, are crying daytime murder of democracy in their country - what we have come to...

President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has been in office for slightly over two years. In this time he has been treated...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, last Tuesday, marked our National Day with a televised broadcast but he cancelled the traditional parade....

About four days ago, I chanced upon a still of some dozen elegantly dressed women apparently arriving in a shopping...