Opinion

In the last few months since the death of the late Oniru of Iru land, Oba Abiodun Idowu Oniru, there is still a vacuum of leadership in one of the highly coveted royal seats in Lagos. Lagosians have…

Foreword by Donald Duke In this work Project Nigeria, Kunle Oshobi takes us through the frightening challenges that Nigeria faces against the enormous potential that it abounds and surmises the…

A News Analysis “I can’t breathe,” African-American George Floyd struggled to repeat as Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck last week in the U.S. city of…

If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer parlour facts – it is the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme…

                ‘Imagine if former President Bush, as Trump’s most recent Republican predecessor, backed a Democrat. Bush’s voice has the singular power to reach moderate Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters,…

This time, perhaps, is the most of the troubling and worrisome of times in the life of the Nigerian born crack international technocrat and president of the Abidjan based…

While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal attention both now and after COVID-19 – the increasing spate of…

It is so befitting. The rain maker leaves the world and still leaves us with an outpour this morning. I woke up to the biggest news today; the Benin reggae legend, Mr. Majekodunmi…

Take a hard look at America right about now. What do you see? Here’s what I see. A dystopia. Riots across the country. Cities on fire. A hundred thousand dead and counting. A…

Chess. In 1979, something happened that took the global oil industry by storm. A strike by 37,000 workers at Iran's national oil refineries led to massive protests; foreign workers fled…

America just passed the grimmest of milestones. A hundred thousand dead of Coronavirus. How can sense be made of a such a colossal number? The mind reels. It’s staggering. When I…

Across the world, as countries and economies slowly reopen, Africa lags behind. We were last to experience the coronavirus—and we expect to be the final continent to flatten…

There are many things that make you sad, even angry, about Nigeria. Recently, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) asked SMEs to pay N120,000 each for “compulsory fumigation” before they would be allowed to re-open after the…

Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is easy going but he is a complicated leader. He is unfazed by hate-driven criticism; he is unmoved by  sychophancy. When you praise him,…

One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ‘’promoting and supporting’’ democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of dollars ‘’promoting and…

First he has come like a thunderbolt from oblivion to our consciousness in the last 365 days defeating an incumbent Governor in an open direct primaries of the All Progressives…

Who are the ‘we?’ Speak for yourself only, some cynics would say on merely seeing the headline of this piece. They would add: “You can talk because you are in government,…

It sounds like déjà vu. But as the plot thickens, it is following the same story line. The Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank, AfDB, has finally bowed to pressure by the United…

I am now convinced beyond all doubts, reasonable, unreasonable, unreasoned, reasoned, reasonless, name it, that something is wrong with us, Africans!  Recently, there we were,…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed an executive order granting financial autonomyto the legislature and judiciary across the 36 states of the country. This would be…

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, Odion Jude Ighalo will become a Shanghai Shenhua player at the end of the week. This comes as his loan deal with the Red half of…

It is tough being a Nigerian. Every aspect of the Nigerian life, from the existential to the political is charged with presumptions and assumptions and suspicion. Buying anything on the street attracts deep anxiety; appointing…

Just two months ago, Governor Hope Uzodinma was making waves in the media for election based reasons. To the surprise of Imo state indigenes, home and abroad, Governor Hope Uzodinma of the APC was announced as the rightful winner…

This morning I wrote a short article on the new head office building of the NDDC. I commended the Minister  of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio and the management of the NDDC for their zest in bringing the…