Tag: Wole Olaoye

I am Government. This regime is lucky to have me. I hold the knife and the yam. I will cut ...

Enter the bulldogs. Every party has at least three prominent ones. Some have fancy titles to suit their plastic egos, ...

For me, as we approach 2023, the political parties and their presidential candidates should be telling us how they are ...

IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu arrives Federal High Court in Abuja. ...the appellate court declared Kanu’s abduction from Kenya to Nigeria ...

Late Olugbenga Owolabi In this age of digital surveillance, it is nothing short of a national embarrassment that kidnappers would ...

It was sweet music in my ears considering that we are on the march again, politically speaking. The Nigerian political ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State ...perhaps a more apt description of the strongman of Rivers State, considering the dogged ...

We know how we arrived at this sorry pass and what we have to do to exit the debtors’ club. ...

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) I propose that we scrap TETFund. Imagine if, instead of using outfits such as TETFund to ...

Bishop Matthew Kukah As the mighty and the lowly recently gathered in Abuja to celebrate his 70th birthday, even Kukah’s ...

For this writer and many people in my generation, there is absolutely nothing existentially crucial about visiting America. In all ...

Like the Taliban, Ansaru is strategic in its use of violence, exercising restraint to win the local populace and mounting ...

Migrants risking their lives while trying to cross into Europe. Picture credit: AP Foto/Irish Defence Forces Earl Lewis admonishes us ...

Nigeria's Tobi Amusan has won a Gold medal in the Women's 100m Hurdles at the World Athletics Championships, after breaking ...

The other parties who have been making a meal of the exposé are probably asking themselves, “Why didn’t we think ...

I wish all the candidates good luck in their never-say-die quest for power. Politics, after all, is a gamble. Scott ...

Medium Security Prison, Kuje So, while the jackals of ISWAP are feasting on defenceless citizens and the leaders are pussyfooting ...

President Muhammadu Buhari Perhaps it is now late in the day to make any fundamental change. But the president can ...

To the children of the Ajanakus who were suddenly made orphans through the killing of both their parents, and to ...

...I don’t think the Nigerian presidency should be reduced to the pedestrian level of the usual Nigerian political roulette of ...

Watching the drama of Senator Okorocha’s arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had all the elements of ...

The longer our undergraduates roam the streets instead of being in school, the worse for the country. Already, the university ...

May the soul of Deborah Samuel and the souls of all other victims of mob lynching through the mercy of ...

If Jonathan embarks on this trip of self-demystification, he will lose the halo he has won since he conceded defeat ...

Many people start winding down on their work schedule when they clock 60 years. Sam would have done the exact ...