Nigeria’s story did not begin in 1960. Nigeria’s prolonged struggle with industrial development, economic diversification, and broad-based prosperity cannot be explained solely by post-independence policy failures...
BY HAMZAT WARIS “In saner climes” is a phrase figuratively used to express or refer to places or societies that are considered more rational, civilised, and...
When American drones struck suspected terrorist positions in Sokoto State on Christmas night, the operation was presented as a moral intervention. The White House framed it...
On Christmas Day, while men (and women) slept, President Donald Trump authorised a US military strike on suspected terrorist camps in Sokoto state, Nigeria. I woke...
Nigeria is a federation in name, but under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is beginning to look like a country governed from one city, for one...
The clock is ticking towards January 2026, the proposed start date for the nation’s new Tax Law. In the corridors of power, the focus seems fixed...
We woke up to a shocking report from the National Assembly that specific provisions of the Tax Administration Act had been amended by an unidentified group...
After reading my article on the failed coup in Benin Republic, a friend sent me a series of chats via WhatsApp. He wrote: “As much as...
As the economy bites harder and end-of-year festivities rev up, the routine “tax” on middle-class Nigerians (the few of them that still exist, that is) the...
“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.” – Alexander Pope. Wasiu Ayinde Adewale Omogbolahan Anifowose otherwise addressed...