Opinion

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…

President Bola Tinubu has been a fighter on both sides in the contestation of power between the presidency and governors. Last Monday and for the umpteenth time since his inauguration as president, Tinubu more than…

It was on the platform of the Arewa Economic Forum (AEF) that intellectuals, business people and retired public functionaries debated which one performed better between the military regime of General Ibrahim…

There isn’t a single soldier who served in Northern Ireland who didn’t curse, at one time, the events of Bloody Sunday under his breath. The hours spent in the bogs of South Armagh, or the back streets of West Belfast…

If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th-century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before…

As he marks his 81st birthday on Sunday December 17th, roughly six months after the completion of his two terms as President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari’s story continues to resonate with a nation that values honesty,…

During the crisis that followed late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip to Saudi Arabia in 2009, a number of prominent Nigerians advocated that the proper thing…

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and face-offs between godfathers and godsons in Nigerian politics. The open war between Chief Nyesom Wike, former governor of Rivers state, and Mr Siminalayi Fubara, whom he…

In its over 10 years of running, this Penpoint column has hardly treated any subject in more than two editions of its host title—Daily Trust on Sunday.  However, in deference to public interest in and concern over the…

From his days as an iron fisted military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari had cut the image of a brutal, no nonsense person, without a drop of milk of human kindness. Not so. People often condemn who or what they don’t…

The only thing that trumps the mocking viral videos of the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is the live footage of the state house of assembly being demolished on Wednesday morning by a…

I featured on an Arise TV Program, last month, where I “advertised” myself as a gubernatorial aspirant in search of a godfather that…

A few weeks ago,  I wrote that Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians is throwing up more heroes and villains on the global stage. A group of unlikely heroes consists of the many conscientious Jews, who have taken a…

Nigeria, as a state, has faced numerous challenges on its path to development. Among these challenges, the actions of political and…

“There is no peace for the wicked”- Isaiah 48:22. There is no greater truism than that which Prophet Isaiah, one of the greatest & most revered Prophets in the Holy…

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Pardon my French. I was saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” When the All Progressives Congress (APC) wowed Nigerians with the slogan of “change”…

•Prosecution turns persecution For Nigeria’s longest running chief banker of the modern era, the sight of Godwin Emefiele clutching to a big bible as he battled for bail in a Lagos court last July only…

One of the drawbacks of being in government in Nigeria is that you are daily occupied with pedestrians and you may have little or no time to…

As the saying goes: “To stumble on the same stone twice is a proverbial disgrace.” This wisecrack is more than a timely counsel as Nigerians eagerly await…

Most African countries, and even some non-African countries currently have a significant level of forex crisis. In an increasingly globalised world typified by Netflix, Starlinks, Elite Western University…

The CBN governor, Dr Olayemi Cardoso in his speech at the 2023 Banker’s dinner on Friday night indicated that there was a need to increase the capital base of banks operating in the country. In his words, he said “while…