WE don’t all sleep and face the same direction, so the Yoruba say in one of their popular proverbial offerings. In the last week, however, happenings in Ibadan, Oyo State, have defied that saying.
In the unfolding scenario between the Senate and the Kogi Central Senator, Akpoti-Uduaghan would be in the position of Paris, who asked the question: “Can vengeance be pursued further than death?”
While writing on this issue in her Funke Egbemode on Wednesday column in the Nigerian Tribune of September 10, my sister and prolific essayist, Funke Egbemode, chose to speak in parables
“The documents ASUU has been referring to as agreements were just proposals that were never signed,” he had stated on Thursday, August 28.
Sometimes last year, I was in a conversation with a former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Saturday, August 16, 2025, was set as a landmark date that would witness a unique event in the annals of Yoruba, Nigeria, if not African contemporary history.
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN,
added a political touch to the absurdities that unfolded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, on August 8 and 10, respectively.
In May 2022, the nation’s socio-economic and political system was shaken to its core when the news of the suspension and subsequent arrest of the then Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, hit the airwaves.
By Taiwo Adisa The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 election, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, started the debate more than a week ago when he raised the allegation of Northern marginalization. Soon afterward, the issue gained traction, with Northern leaders converging on Kaduna last week to echo similar sentiments. According…
Surprisingly, however, the 10th National Assembly has been somewhat lukewarm on the need to legalise these anti-electoral fraud tools, even when they are more than halfway through their tenure
