Fisayo Soyombo

Pe­ter Obi dis­rupt­ed Nige­ria’s pres­i­den­tial race with promis­es of mean­ing­ful change. But can he go all the way?

Ban­ning Twit­ter will not solve the Niger­ian gov­ern­ment’s many prob­lems.

Will the in­cum­bent man­age to ful­fil his elec­tion cam­paign promis­es?

It was not just bad weath­er and ar­son that de­layed the Niger­ian elec­tion.

On Sat­ur­day, Nige­ri­ans will be forced to choose the less­er of the two evils once again.

Nige­ria de­serves a sub­stan­tive pres­i­dent – not just in name but also in prac­tice.

On the 50th an­niver­sary of its bloody civ­il war, Nige­ria is strug­gling to pre­vent an­oth­er.

Niger­ian pres­i­dent’s war against cor­rup­tion will yield a be­twixt-and-be­tween re­sult: so much ac­tion, min­i­mal so­lu­tion.

Buhari’s un­clear health sit­u­a­tion rings alarm bells for Nige­ria’s fu­ture.

No Niger­ian leader, de­mo­c­ra­t­ic or dic­ta­to­r­i­al, has ever suc­ceed­ed in de­liv­er­ing so­cioe­co­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty to the mass­es.