Tinubu biting the bullet from Day One
Of the four preceding presidential inauguration speeches since 1999 from Olusegun Obasanjo to Buhari, none that I reviewed was nearly as audacious and as provokingly clear as Tinubu’s position was on perhaps the most crucial economic decisions as he took office.
Tinubu enters the week of gràgrà
Nigeria’s brand of politics demands that such demonstration of autonomy be ostentatious.
Now that Renewed Hope is here
No Nigerian leader, in recent history, has shown this stuff of forthrightness, attunement and expansiveness at such a capricious time as now in the life of the nation.
PMB lands softly on a sofa floor
Not fawning praise singing, but factual appraisal of opportunity given to serve the country, and to make a difference.
On eve of transition, Nigerian chef cooks up a storm
A country deeply divided by the outcome of the elections appears to have found a common ground in Hilda’s recipe.
As Nigeria prepares for the Zoom presidency
For every day he has spent in the country since being announced as Nigeria’s next president, President Buhari’s chosen successor has spent at least one and a half days outside.
Buhari’s last-minute provocations of Tinubu
Now that his tenure is ending, he said he had resolved to dispense with fuel subsidies by June 2023, a month after he would have left office.
The good in goodbye
When I step out of the Presidential Villa on Friday, May 26, 2023, it would be the last as an insider.