Opinion

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…

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Delays and setbacks in mega-construction projects are nothing new. It doesn’t matter which country you are in, the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Let me guess: because there was a widespread belief that President Bola Tinubu would run a corrupt, laissez-faire administration, some of his appointees…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It is stale news that the fire-eating, yet compassionate, Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, is dead. He will no longer be referred to in the…

As 2023 comes to an end today, I promise you that some of the stranger-than-fiction events that shaped the year will not fade away with it. Some will be etched in our memories forever. As a custom in Nigeria, general election…

IF Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State felt the peace deal he signed before the president in Abuja last Monday left him with the short end of the stick, he did not immediately betray his feelings. There…

The removal of fuel subsidy and the move to merge foreign exchange rates, two headline reforms introduced by the Tinubu administration since late May, triggered problems such as high fuel prices and the depreciation…

Someone recently said on social media, and I agree in toto, that the exchange rate has the biggest impact on the costs of goods and services in Nigeria — far more…