A monopoly that many Nigerians have struggled to understand or entrepreneurs have battled to break is that of DSTV. It has, so far, defied nearly all competitions to dominate the PayTv industry in Nigeria. We can all recall how HiTV made a cameo attempt at shattering the monopoly. HiTV came like a thief in night, wrestle the rights to broadcast not only the English Premier League (EPL), which has a fanatical following in Nigeria, but also, the English FA, the UEFA champions League, and Europa Cup but in the morning; HiTv crashed. HiTv which signed to air these matches for…

It is now clear that the word ‘clueless’ frequently used to denigrate former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration by the All Progressives Congress cannot be more valid than now. Part of the propaganda the All Progressives Congress (APC) used as an opposition party to unseat President Goodluck Jonathan from power in the run-up to the 2015 presidential election was to constantly describe him and his administration as “clueless” in the way governmental affairs were run. At every forum before the election, the party through its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed and its National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun fondly used the word ‘clueless’…

When President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia conceded defeat after the December 1, Presidential elections in that West African country of 1.9 million people, the gesture was widely hailed and described as an indication of great hope for democracy in Africa and particularly for The Gambia, which Jammeh had ruled with an iron fist for 22 years. That election was also perhaps the most important political development in The Gambia in 52 years - the first change of government through democratic elections. The winner of the Presidential election, Adama Barrow, was the product of a coalition of opposition parties who…

There must be something Asiwaju Bola Tinubu knows or does that is beyond other politicians; for he is the only politician since 1999 that sponsors people into political offices and they remain faithful and loyal to him. In the three zones of the North as well as in the South-East and South-South, sometimes the relationship between a political godfather and a godson does not even last until the inauguration before turning sour. But in Tinubu’s case, no matter the attacks the public may heap on him about his political and financial stranglehold on his godsons’ tenures, they still remain loyal…