Opinion

THE Providus Bank wrote J.Wesley Investment Limited, the…

By Femi Fani-Kayode “I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from” – Kemi Badenoch, MP. The Right Honorable Kemi Badenoch, MP, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom and…

The late Archbishop Benson Idahosa was once asked to comment on the “proliferation of churches” in the country. His rhetorical response…

The Nigerian police routinely outcompete themselves in absurdities, but the arraignment of 30 children last week in Abuja by the police for allegedly plotting a coup to topple the Bola Tinubu administration was…

The much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle of President Bola Tinubu occurred recently with five ministers sacked. Ten others were either…

President Bola Tinubu has increasingly become unpopular, especially in the north, without which his election as president would have been impossible in the first place. He won more votes up north than in the south,…

We fail to understand why President Bola Tinubu would jettison the well-considered recommendation by the National Economic Council (NEC)…

Just when you are tempted to give up on Nigeria, something happens and your hope survives another brutal assault yet again. The incident involving Hon. Alex Mascot Ikwechegh has once more assured me that Nigeria is…

When Manchester United’s elite highly paid players look at themselves in the mirror they should reflect on the poor support they gave to sacked coach Erik Ten Hag. He operated as a “dead man walking” since the beginning of…

Many Yoruba people voted for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or the Labour Party…

Two sets of tax bills supposedly drafted by the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which could significantly alter the distribution of Value Added Tax revenues among Nigeria’s federal, state,…

It is okay if you do not want to vote for former President Donald Trump in the November 5, US presidential election. But please, do not compare Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. It is not fair. Here are the top ten…

The Guardian newspaper is alarmed by the State House Press Statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy on October 26, 2024, on the newspaper’s lead story titled…

Praise the Lord! President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed ministers and heads of departments and agencies to reduce the number of vehicles in their convoys to three and their security personnel to a maximum of five.…

Members of my generation who lived or spent holidays in Lagos during the late seventies to the nineties remember men whose lives were…

Breaking News: The World Bank has endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic policy, suggesting that Nigeria must maintain its current reforms for the next 10 to 15 years in order to be able to transform…

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recently published a damning report on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing trends in Nigeria based on findings by a leading DNA testing centre in Lagos. According to the report,…

On the 19th of October, 2023, Nigerians will roll out the drums in celebration of a truly remarkable personage, who has left an indelible mark in the annals African history – General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former…

In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out and…

By Femi Fani-Kayode “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not but do lie — behold, I will make them to come and worship at thy feet and to know that I have loved…

One challenge every government since Obasanjo has faced is the growing cost of governance. The cost of running our democracy is among the highest in the world, consuming trillions of Naira annually. Servicing…

Well, well, well… what an eventful week! So eventful I was unsure of what topic to write about. I started out wanting to do a follow-up to my last article,…

In my last piece for the year 2023, precisely on the 27th of December, I posed the question in an article entitled: ABUSIVE GODFATHER­ISM: IS WIKE NOT OVEREACH­ING HIMSELF? It is now apparent that Wike has overreached…

“A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.” – Alexis de Tocquiville, 1805-1859”. African leaders also cannot gradually enlarge their minds just as they expand their appetites for…