By Azu Ishiekwene

The next British general election is in 2029, but you could already feel the tremor from the council election of May 7.

The surge of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party is the clearest warning sign yet that Prime Minister Keir Starmer is living on borrowed time. The Labour Party is divided, its influence weakened, and Starmer’s days in Number 10 are numbered.

By Ofor Nwodo

In the words of Michael Jordan, “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, while others make it happen.”

By Azu Ishiekwene

The former Labour Party presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, thinks he is Nigeria’s most misunderstood politician. Why is it hard for us to see that his serial party flipping is not a sign of desperation but a tactic of survival for our own good? Why, even though he has flipped political parties five times in three election cycles, should he be compared to Vice President Atiku Abubakar in political vagrancy? Who is chasing Obi and his new soulmate, former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso? There are three possible answers.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Listening to Kenyan President William Ruto diss Nigerians with a smile from faraway Italy, one would think he had taken a page from Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard. It was obvious that Ruto assumed Nigerians spoke that variety of unconventional English rendered by Tutuola in his story of magical realism from Yoruba mythology.

By Max Amuchie

A nation does not declare its own decline. It performs normalcy — until the performance can no longer hold.

What follows is not an announcement, but a pattern — visible to those willing to look beyond the performance.

By Max Amuchie

A nation does not collapse all at once. It erodes — layer by layer, system by system — until what once appeared unshakable begins to give way under the weight of forces it can no longer contain.

“Comment Is Free, But Facts Are Sacred”.... Charles Prestwich Scott.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Let me state from this starting point that I am an accidental journalist, sort of; just like Nasir el-Rufai, ex-governor of Kaduna state, described himself as an accidental civil servant. But let no one mistake the reference to el-Rufai here to mean anything! He is neither friend nor foe!

By Bola Bolawole

It is sweet to be a champion! Ex-champion is a pill too bitter to swallow. Never to become an ex-champion is one of the prayers of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye (aka Daddy G. O.), General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, that has never failed to receive a thunderous ‘Amen”.

By Bolanle Bolawole

A few days ago, I came across the piece you will soon read here now and was attracted to it by the message; the medium of the message; and the personality the message was addressed to.

By Bola Bolawole

The country’s leading opposition political parties descended, last week Saturday, on the historic city of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state, sounding frantic - and they were right! The existential threat they said confronts them is more real than imagined.

By Steve Osuji

President Bola Tinubu doesn't seem to give a damn about Nigeria. It has become apparent that in all he does, he puts himself first. His cronies come second and his country a distant third. Consider his presidency: it's arguably the puniest since independence. As we know, past presidents and even military rulers, would headhunt the best and seasoned minds in the land and beyond to help run a new administration. This is especially so for the most sensitive cabinet positions like finance, economic advisory and strategic sectors like power and infrastructure.

By Chuka Nnabuife

One tree may not make a forest but one bold leader can spark one transformative revolution. That is precisely what is unfolding in Anambra State and across the South-East, where a new political culture is taking root under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).