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That price control judgment
On Wednesday, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the federal high court, Lagos, ordered federal government to fix the prices of milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles, motorcycles, motor vehicles, and their spare parts.…
What is killing our Obas?
It is a sacrilege to say an oba is dead in Yorubaland. But two obas were killed by suspected kidnappers last week in Ekiti State. Their remains are on display…
Rivers Powerless Governor As Kidnapper
I have since been compiling awards to be bestowed on Rivers State Governor, Siminalaye Fubara. By my calculation, he has won quite a number of…
The Cardoso Naira vs Dollar Chess Game: A Fight to the Finish
I have watched very keenly the flurry of activities in Nigeria's foreign exchange market in the past couple of days. It is obvious that the…
The politicisation of politics
Politics has probably one million definitions but, for the purpose of this article, I mean the art of winning, keeping or jostling for state power. There is nothing…
Exchange Rate Unification: President Tinubu Poisoned Chalice
From two dramatic back-to-back policy measures, the government of President Bola Tinubu is now engaged in a life and death struggle to bring order back into the…
All Hail South Africa
Two extraordinary events are happening in the world we live in right now. The first is that genocide is being committed against a people right before our eyes. The second is an extraordinary denial of that very same thing;…
Should The Government Leave Yahoo Boys Alone?
A recent viral video circulating on social media features an elderly man passionately advocating for internet fraudsters, popularly known as “Yahoo Boys.” In the nearly two-minute footage shared by prominent blogger…
‘Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics’ By Simon Kolawole
Nigeria is the world’s poverty capital. Most Nigerians live on less than $2 a day. Nigeria’s economy is powered by only 4,000MW of power. Even Republic of…
The many ‘sins’ of Asue Ighodalo
Let me make this declaration that if Asue Ighodalo belonged to any other party outside of the PDP, I would still have written this material as a proud Esan man just to address some issues so manifestly manipulated by…
For Netanyahu Will Be The Pebbles
Twelve years ago, when I visited England for the first time, one of the tourist attractions I visited was Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. I’d heard about the place way back in my school days because our neighbours and…
Northern interests versus national interest
Never mind their nationalistic posturing, many of our elite are at heart closet tribal champions and ethnic jingoists waiting to manifest. Squeeze them a little and they break out in their true colours. Their rhetoric…
Relocating CBN From Abuja To Lagos: Matters Arising
Pending when relevant protocols shall be completed, several key departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be relocated from Abuja its present headquarters to Lagos, which was its former base until the 1980s.…
Now That Dangote Refinery is Live
May I congratulate Alhaji Aliko Dangote for finally giving birth to a “bouncing” refinery after being in the labour room for a decade. It is heartwarming…
Will Dangote ever deliver cheap petrol?
Delays and setbacks in mega-construction projects are nothing new. It doesn’t matter which country you are in, the…
Abuja No Longer Safe, Nigeria Under Siege
As if the violent business of kidnapping had come to stay in the country given how it continued to thrive in parts of Nigeria, abductors through their recent fatal attacks in Abuja, seem to have turned the country’s…
Betta saga and the corrupt indoctrination of youths
We had begun to witness a major shift in political movements that’s giving rise to more youth participation in the governance of countries. More recently, Gabriel Attal, a 34-year old was appointed France’s…
Why the new minimum capital base for tier-one banks in Nigeria should be at least $5 billion
The issue of minimum capital base for deposit money Banks once again came to the front burner when the CBN governor recently indicated that there was a need to raise the minimum capital base of deposit money banks to put…
Nigerians Too Poor To Revolt?
Veteran politician Sule Lamido may not parade a chain of degrees, but he does appear to exercise his cerebral faculties admirably when trying to explain away the cul-de-sac to…
The Audacity of Impunity
Let me guess: because there was a widespread belief that President Bola Tinubu would run a corrupt, laissez-faire administration, some of his appointees…
OAU example of a pervasive National Malaise
Even when tribes and tongues differ, and religions differ, there is at least one thing that unites Nigerians; one thing that is as common to us as the air we breathe. It is the practice of self-interest above national…
Betta Edu: Is Any Money Missing?
In the last few days, the name of Betta Edu, the suspended minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation has been all over Nigerian news sites…
The Labour of Our Heroes Past
On the day Nigeria played Italy at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, I was inside a public bus. When I left our office in Ajao Estate, Lagos state, for a…
Emefiele: Probing the past is unnecessary morality hunt
In what has become a predictable pattern in our politics that whenever a new government comes into office, we will, sooner than later, be regaled with the financial misdeeds of the preceding government or…