Opinion

By Gidado Shuaib While I was in Kano for a friend’s wedding, I overheard a conversation that Uber drivers in Abuja have increased the cost of commuting from the airport to the city center to N15,000. Given the new price, I knew any time I returned to Abuja, I would have to trek home. As…

Monday 29th of May 2023 President Bola Tinubu, delivered his inaugural address as president of Nigeria at Eagle Square, Abuja. The Oath of Office was administered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola. Below is the full text. My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given…

By Femi Odere PDP spokesman, DanielBwala is a known mouthpiece of Atiku Abubakar’s failed (for the umpteenth time) presidential ambition. But in the crazy political world of the Turakin Adamawa where it’s now apparent that the water has since dried on the back of his fish, his lieutenants now seem to be trying their hands…

…..Stop this cheap blackmail against us, Delta Representatives reply Nigeria Pilot Publisher. …. Say allegations aimed at intimidation, extortion. Two Delta State House of Representatives members; Hon Nicholas Mutu and his colleague, Thomas Ereyitomi have raised the alarm over acts suggestive of blackmail and extortion by the Editor-in-Chief of Nigeria Pilot Newspaper, one Mr. Dennis…

By Abidemi Olalekan After failing to fulfil his promise to support power shift to Kogi West senatorial district after his tenure, Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello decided to offer Okun people in the zone a ‘Greek Gift’. He is well aware of the age-long clamour for a university in Okun land, so he decided to divide…

By Sulaiman AbdulMalik It was a dizzyingly unpleasant moment for Gov. Abdullahi Ganduge of Kano state, immediately the news filtered into the air of the Paris parleys between Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President Elect and his former boss now foe, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso over Tinubu willingness to co-opt the former Kano state governor into…

By News Desk In the next few days, many state governors will bow out of office. While some of them are leaving with their heads high, same could not be said of quite a number of them. There are worries over the backlog of salary and pension some of them would be handing over to…

The attention of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Kogi state chapter, has been drawn to a misleading publication credited to one Muktar Atima who, supposedly in error, was reported to have decamped from the SDP, as its chairman, to the APC. The report which showed him with His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the Governor of…

By Femi Adesina Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, said he never experienced any of his predecessor Reuben Abati’s wild claims about Aso Villa. Abati, in a piece he titled The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa, had postulated that that Aso Villa is haunted, and should be turned to…

*By Tunde Olusunle Since he became governor in circumstances which remain fuzzy over seven years ago, Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi State, has left no one in doubt about his totalitarian grip on the north central state. He is the be-all-and-end-all of the potentially rich, but pathetically indigent and decrepit state, whose style reminds…