Opinion

It was the end of an era Tuesday when Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing Wailers passed away, aged 73. Bunny (original name Neville…

By Fredrick Nwabufo No region in Nigeria is a self-sufficient archipelago. None is more fortunate in human and material assets than the other. Each region has…

Chilling. I mean very chilling. I felt a shiver down my spine on Tuesday when I saw the video of “new” Niger Delta militants, with war weapons, threatening to bomb Abuja and Lagos because of the “underdevelopment” of the…

This week, the Nigerian Senate approved the nominated Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr.…

Let’s have a comic diversion today from weightier matters of our national life. Because what I want to discuss can only be comic, if not…

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…

As a cybersecurity professional, I’ve witnessed the digital threat landscape change rapidly. Today, with everything connected, cyberattacks are growing in number and complexity. Traditional security methods, once reliable, now struggle…

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…