BAT 2023

The on-going anti corruption war by the Buhari regime is a joke. So says the heavily-dented President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. So says all those presently charged for one form of corruption or the other. To them, what is going on is a comedy, a circus show and not anything about fighting corruption. Even […]

I love Nigeria, I sincerely do because I possibly have no choice, I could love America, England, Poland, or even neighboring Ghana, become a Nigerian-Arabian or Israeli born Nigerian it makes no difference because we are Nigerians, we are who we are…very special in our own way. So, I love Nigeria, the land where everything, […]

Secrecy as they say, creates confusion and opens up the space for wild speculation and conspiracy theories. Nigerians believe fervently in the adage that nature abhors a vacuum. So the more secretive the government becomes about President Buhari’s health status, the more some Nigerians move in to feel the void with their own theories and […]

For the Sumerians the word “Mumu’’ means creative reason, in other words, that which creates all things. The Babylonian priests see the god Marduk as the creator of the world. Marduk was identified with the word “Mumu’’. The early Greeks of the Milesian school of philosophy said: “the cosmic substance is reason, wisdom and harmony. […]

Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, can describe the Leader of the Opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as a “mutton-headed old mugwump” and an “Islington herbivore” how on earth should we describe our very own President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria?  As each day passes he looks more and more like the colourful creature called Golum in J.R. […]Read More

The Weekly Trust of Saturday 4th March 2017 (Page 39) carried an interview with Chief Okoi Obono-Obla in which several misleading accusations bordering on my political convictions and engagements in the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were made against my person. Chief Obla made the claims in his bid to promote his new book […]

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has warned Yoruba groups including the Afenifere over comments credited to the latter over the recent killings in Ile-Ife, Osun state. A clash between the Hausa community and the indigenes of Ile-Ife on March 8, 2017 led to the death of some Nigerians, most of them reportedly from the […]

Sometime in 2010, Nichi Vendola cried out loud to report a group of unruly teeangers who were consistently coming to harass him in his house in Bari. The youngsters would sometimes ring his bell or buzz at his front door and then belted out some homophobic chants before disappearing into the thin air. Nichi, who […]

Wednesday, 15th of March was the day Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was hoping to have his appointment confirmed by the much vilified Nigerian Senate after having been rejected the first time over a report written against him and sent to the Upper Chamber by the Department of […]

I’m Sarafa Ibrahim and I am a freelance journalist. I wrote a piece on the experience of some candidates who applied to the recently police recruitment. This was the experience I gathered from about 150 of them, upon investigation. I seek that it can be published on your reputable media. It is below sir Police […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has expressed its commitment to grow the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company’s, NPDC, crude oil production to 500,000 barrels per day by 2020. The Corporation said it would also grow NPDC’s gas production to 1500mmscf per day within the same period. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, […]

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adeshina, could not hide his joy as he announced with unrivalled glee the phone call of Mr President to him all the way from London. Certainly, this is not the first time President Buhari and Femi Adeshina would be discussing over the phone since the two tenants of Aso Rock moved to […]