Opinion

In periods of oil prices hovering around $100 per barrel, Nigeria scoops approximately $200 million per day in revenues from the global oil market. Who are the major beneficiaries of these proceeds? Roughly two…

With the return of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, president-elect, to the country on Monday after a month’s vacation abroad ahead of his inauguration on May 29, 2023, as the 16th president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,…

I have seen different videos of students in the UK complaining about life in the UK. I have tried to look the other way, but I think some people may be truly ignorant about coming to the UK using the student route. My…

Now that the storm in the drama-filled Adamawa gubernatorial election has subdued, the two big contenders – Aishatu Dahiru Binani and Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri – will have the opportunity to retrospect, to strategise…

A society full of sinners judging sinners for sinning differently… Nigeria is a country where everybody is right, and everybody is wrong, it is a nation where when I am right, you…

Residents of Yola woke up last Sunday morning to the announcement of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Aisha Binani as ‘winner’ of the…

It has been acknowledged that the All Progressives Congress would not have won the 2023 presidential elections without the support of the North West towards Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign. Despite the North West…

There is a delusion that North sits somewhere dressed in babanriga, picking its teeth and relishing in its ability to make whomsoever it loves the president. This arrogant conception by political opportunists and their…

What we call elections may not pass any test across the border. I hinged all hope on Mahmood Yakubu, a man so exposed to decency and organisation, to change the face of INEC and leave the stage an eternal hero.…

All things are now ready. Last week, I wrote about the cleaning and clearing of my office in the State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The job is now done, and as a bride waits for her groom, the office now expects…

Olabode Opeseitan, a social commentator, consultant and global business developer, who interacted with the billionaire founder of Globacom and Conoil, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., for over three decades, 16 years of which he…

As the inauguration of the next Nigerian legislature, termed the 10th National Assembly, draws near, different people and groups have started plotting to emerge leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives.…

NIGERIANS have divided opinions about the efficacy of democracy in driving its development. There are constant threats to our democracy stemming from procedural and structural deficiencies in the system. At the core…

The lies are getting deeper; the propaganda steeper, and the curses and insults sicker. There should be limits to crudity. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is Nigeria’s president-elect and will be sworn in as president in a…

“There are two tragedies in life; one is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”-George Bernard Shaw The Pre-1999 Lagos was bedevilled with serious environmental and socioeconomic malaise of…

A new book by a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, interestingly places former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi in the middle of alleged contract…

The divorce epidemic in the world and its attendant crises in divorce property sharing assumed a different colour last week in the matter of Moroccan, Achraf Hakimi Mouh, and his erstwhile wife, Spanish actress, Hiba…

“The mass return of our people during this forthcoming population census will help us quantify the population of Biafrans in Nigeria. They have always told the world that we are a dot with an insignificant population”…

As the President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration winds down in glorious departure, mischief makers have rolled up their sleeves to drag in the mud the hard-earned credibility of Mr. Mele Kyari, the group managing…

There are endless peculiarities, I must here admit, about the 2023 presidential election, the least not being the outing of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). With the…

According to William Cullen Bryant, “truth crushed to the earth, shall rise again.” This truism credited to the great hero is…

Nigeria’s healthcare sector is dealing with a number of issues, including growing healthcare expenditures, a growing need for individualized care, and ineffective data management and sharing systems. One cannot overemphasize the…

It is not uncommon in Nigeria for one ethnic group to make another ethnic group the target of ethnic slurs in form of unfavorable, derisive or disparaging jokes, sayings, or riddles. Lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka…

About 12 months after President Buhari came to office, petrol price increased astronomically from N86.50 to N145, an increase of almost 67 per cent. At that time, crude oil was selling for $45 a barrel, and the…