Opinion

If I were to choose between the governed and its government, I will choose the latter. This is because it has been established that the former are fortune hunters who in a world of ‘survival of the fittest’, seize every…

Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president, made his sixth attempt to become Nigeria’s president last year, 30 years…

LAST week, the National Assembly undertook one of the major responsibilities assigned to it by the 1999 Constitution when the two chambers engaged the…

The thing about economic policies is that they have good and bad sides. The trick for policymakers, and indeed the people, is to focus on maximising the good and minimising the bad. But the larger responsibility rests on…

Unlike his predecessor, Nigeria’s current central bank governor, Olayemi Michael Cardoso, is unlikely to print money without the president’s approval. Tinubu did not pick him out of the blues. You could describe him as a…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…