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Peter Obi. Peter Obi has the best chance against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 of all opposition candidates. Former ...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari Divested of military authority, Buhari's passion for rooting out corruption became an albatross. His Aviation Minister, ...

Whether he threatens more tariffs for de-dollarisation or uses divide-and-rule to weaken the world, especially developing countries, they must make ...

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State Switching off or stepping outside our comfort zone now and then can be beneficial ...

“And yet, Mr. Azu expects his readers to clap like trained seals. To swallow each sentence like sugar-coated arsenic. To ...

It’s an irony that, in its moment of travail, Iran is now looking to Qatar and Egypt, two countries that ...

Eric Teniola, who worked with Uncle Sam in PUNCH between 1977 and 1981, as Oyo State editor, Constituent Assembly editor ...

Professor Ishaq Oloyede Oloyede’s tears may seem insufficient to assuage a nation in grief, but he has demonstrated, over the ...

Ibrahim Traore (PHOTO CREDIT: Council on Foreign Relations) Traoré is not Sankara, a fact that may be lost on Burkina ...

GDP or not, Onanuga’s rejoinder will not avert the question of whether Nigerians feel better off. This government's difficult decisions ...

Mr. Atiku Abubakar (Photo Credit: concisenews.global) If the PDP is serious about a future, and Atiku cares about it, he ...

The Pope chimney watch... waiting for the white smoke... Yet the encyclicals of Pope Francis, his willingness to confront dogma ...

As we move closer to 2027, the actions of the children of newsworthy politicians will be a valuable lens by ...

The book ends the way it starts: with existential questions about love, life and meaning, viewed from Power’s Swedish soul ...

Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool Contrary to what Rubio would have the world believe, Rasool’s “cardinal sin” was championing the case against ...

Senators Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Godswill Akpabio. With only four women out of 109 senators (both chambers of the National Assembly ...

It would be remarkable if Babangida took responsibility for his mistakes and apologised... Instead of the five-letter word – sorry ...

NSA Nuhu Ribadu The job at hand is to dig us out of that hole, a significant point Ribadu made ...

Professionally, tomes have been written or said about his significant contributions to Nigerian letters, as a consistent public intellectual of ...

  States are not in short supply, yet because of primordial greed, the campaign for more will not abate until ...

We already know how the war against China will end: Beijing will make new friends and spread its influence elsewhere, ...

...if the prevailing Trump model takes hold in Britain or elsewhere in Europe, even detention camps in Manus or Nauru ...

President Donald Trump It doesn’t matter. Trump is not pretending he is on this mission to save the world. He’s ...

United States' President-elect, Donald Trump Only exceptionalism could have provided that chance. Only exceptionalism could produce an Obama and eight ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will remain the PDP's albatross, despite his efforts to act as its best card. Those ...