Opinion

My February 2013 column, ‘Public Service in Private Interest’, related how our public service has proven incapable of mobilizing scarce resources for the advancement…

The Ondo impeachment drama is getting more and more carouser, as the hunter is turning the hunted, even as the original prey isn’t out of danger. It’s one big distraction that shouldn’t have been, and yet it is, no…

Two confessions at the outset: First, my heart goes to Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, Governor of Ondo State. He has my full sympathy for his illness, which has kept him from full-scale performance of his…

As of this moment, fuel prices have surged towards the N1000 mark, and the dollar to naira exchange rate has surpassed N1000. Palliative measures appear ineffectively sporadic, while the NNPC has once again assumed…

Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps taking a cue from their parents, children of successive Nigerian presidents…

A few days ago, I had an early night. I slept at 7:30pm — quite early for someone who normally goes to bed at 9pm. I woke up at 2am, took a leak and thought to continue my journey, but I was stranded. I started rolling —…

I admire Chief Dele Momodu’s passion and unwavering support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the current Osun Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke. However, the air he claims has been cleared over the…

Since the May 29, 2023 inauguration of public officers, some of them have been carrying on as if there is a prize for whoever emerges as the public office holder with the highest number of aides. They have been reeling out…

As the world watches in horror, the latest escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has thrust the Middle East back into the global spotlight. The morning of Oct. 7 witnessed a shocking turn of events as the…

The trending saga in respect of questions over the certificate issued to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Chicago State University (CSU) on his graduation from the school in 1979, seems to have come to another head…

May I, at this point, humbly retract certain claims I made in my article, ‘Tinubu and Atiku: Birds of a Feather’ (THISDAY, June 12, 2022), months before the…

“For it is not an enemy who reproaches me, then I could bear it; nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me, then I could hide myself from him. But it is you, a man my equal, my companion and…

The recent escalating insecurity in Nigeria, fueled by the activities of insurgents, bandits and ethnic agitations, has understandably…

A September 21, 2023, enterprise news report (i.e., a news report that’s not from a news release or a press conference) from the Daily Trust found that “Despite the numerous assurances by President Bola Ahmed…

One of the major but least discussed problems with Nigeria is its civil service. The civil service should…

Lagos, Nigeria’s most important mega-city, prides itself as the country’s Center of Excellence, but the poor state of its roads tells a different story. From the sprawling Mainland settlements to the business district…

Femi Adesina, a former media aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, last week said the former president regretted some of the decisions he took while in office and felt he could have done some things better.  Even…

“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.”  — John Wayne, US Actor Right now, nobody on earth has a tougher assignment than you. You have my sympathies. Because you lead a team of Deputy Governors, all new to…

Last week, I experienced one of the worst encounters in my 15 years of international travel. I was travelling from Abuja to the Swedish city of Gothenburg to attend the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference…

The Yoruba tribe seems to be witnessing a resurgence with the fraught emergence of their President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Yorubanization of our systems since this emergence, have risen in tempo and in noise to the…

Last week at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Iseyin, Oyo State, Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the republic ordered “traditional rulers” from Oyo…

The mantra of the world’s justice system is “Innocent until proven guilty” but the Netizens and the so-called social media activists seem not to be in the know. Since the news of the death of former Marlian Records…

My former neighbour, a civil servant, used to tell me how he was preparing carefully for retirement. “I am very cautious with everything I do in the office,” he would say, “because I do not want to be going to the…

In the realm of Nigerian politics, the stage is often set for gripping drama that could rival any Netflix series. Recent events in Edo state have provided a fresh serving of political theatrics, featuring the remarkable…