Opinion

Not too many Nigerians expected the nation’s Covid-induced recession which hit the economy in the Third Quarter (Q3) to have disappeared in Q4 with an expansion of 0.11 percent. For one, I watched many economic experts…

On January 9, 2021, operatives of Amotekun – the quasi-state police outfit of south-western Nigeria – went to Aiyete in Ibarapa LGA, Oyo state, on a mission to arrest suspected kidnappers based on “intelligence” from…

United Kingdom, the small but mighty country which has the history of invading 178 or 90 per-cent of the countries on earth, has taken on the European…

Tayo Ogunbiyi pays tribute to Lateef Jakande, former governor of Lagos State Death, which legendary playwright, Williams Shakespeare describes as a necessary evil,…

The COVID-19 pandemic had a brutal impact on global trade. According to the WTO, global merchandise trade in 2020 declined by 9.2% and is projected to rebound with a…

Let me give due credit for the idea of this piece. President Muhammadu Buhari had said recently that elites in the country were not giving due…

There are at least two fundraising efforts ongoing for Sunday Igboho, now deemed a Yoruba freedom fighter. So far, one has garnered £43,024, raised out of its £100,000 goal while another one has raised about $4,000. A…

Namaste Wahala, the film directed by Hamisha Daryani Ahuja was billed as the must-see movie this last Valentine’s Day. It was to be a fusion of the best of Bollywood and Nollywood and that was a very interesting prospect. At…

The idea of having a near-perfect country out of a ruptured Nigeria is illusory. The composite parts of the country each contribute to the miasma of confusion that Nigeria is.…

David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Fani-Kayode, controversial, maverick, and feather-weight politician, is known to be loud-mouthed and inconsistent. Even…

The Africa Rising narrative, a result of consistent economic growth and political stability on the continent at the beginning of the millennium, has suffered a…

It is with a heavy heart, worry about Nigeria and a sense of impending doom that I am sending this message to my colleagues in the media . Let me begin with a question , what exactly will we gain if Nigeria descends into war?…

You won’t believe this. As the Lagos state governor-elect in 1979, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was so much in a hurry to hit the ground running that he…

There is more to Lai Mohammed than meets the eye. He is more controversial than he is understood. And he has chalked up quite a reputation for himself as an unabridged talker.…

Since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, women have not been given the chance to become president of the country and I think our great nation is making a mistake. If Nigeria has a woman as president, there are many advantages…

In politics, there are no permanent friends, permanent enemies and permanent interests. This is perhaps, the only way to explain widely reported moves of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, FFK. The former Minister and…

Leaders in the north must jettison the wrist-slap approach if they genuinely intend to arrest the growing insecurity in their domain, writes Shola Oyeyipo ......If truth must be told, the perplexing insecurity…

While the House impeachment managers have focused on events leading up to the Capitol breach, it was the real time response from Donald Trump to the rioters which yields…

In war, it is said that truth is usually the first casualty. While the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) continued its war on cryptocurrency (crypto) last week by threatening banks and other financial institutions…

Based on data by the Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), of the 10 million applicants that sought entry into Nigerian…

Against a wobbly Chelsea beating a path onto redemption with a new manager at the helm on Thursday, Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham appeared hapless, limp and disorganised,…

Even with a little more than two years to go as President and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, permutations over who will succeed Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock has…

Let me start with a Caveat: Don’t ever start an argument with this tall and brilliant man if you’re not well armed with the facts of the matter you want to take him on! I won’t forget in a hurry that fierce argument…

Looking at everything, it’s not all together a bad thing for the North to secede from Nigeria. The North is the only region in Nigeria that practically…