President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s G20 Summit visit to India, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is coming almost exactly 61 years after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first PM of India, visited Nigeria. Don’t be frightened about investments in Nigeria… I have a team, and I am the captain of that team, and I assure you that we solve …
The Niger coup presents a diplomatic dilemma for the West African bloc whose new leadership is keen to entrench a new democratic order. ‘Nigeria is back’ Analysts say Tinubu’s prompt reaction has injected new energy into Nigeria’s geopolitical leadership in Africa after its conspicuous absence since Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure as president between 1999 and 2007. “With Tinubu’s posture, we can …
Parallels are being drawn between the 2023 election and the annulled 1993 vote, widely seen as the country’s ‘freest and fairest’. The polls in Nigeria will be held a few months shy of the 30th anniversary of the annulled 1993 presidential elections, widely seen as the “freest and fairest” in the country’s history. On June 12, 1993, as incoming results …
Obi has inspired a zealous movement of mostly youths and disrupted Nigeria’s traditional two-man presidential contest. Obi’s supporters say he has brought an unfussy style to leadership that downplays the privileges of power and has done away with political “godfatherism”, in which an individual handpicks an often less influential leadership candidate to exert influence over them, an entrenched concept in …