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2023 and the Ndigbo question
After the leadership elections of the ninth national assembly in June, one fact stuck out like the proverbial sore thumb — not a single Igbo man or woman would be…
Bola Tinubu And His Date With Destiny In 2023
Fellow Nigerians permit me to say, it is no longer a secret that the former Governor of Lagos State and easily one of the most influential politicians in Africa,…
Remembering gangling Rashidi Yekini
Had I known that he shared the same birthday as one of the greatest football players in the history of the game, I would not have been wondering for years about where Rashidi got his prodigious goal-scoring…
Optimizing Access to Grants and Funding Opportunities for Women Led Social Enterprises in Africa
The Situation: According to a recent World Bank report, Africa is the only continent where more women than men choose to become entrepreneurs. However, despite…
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
A 91-year-old Nigerian corporate titan, who will not like to be identified, called in after reading the text of this column last week. He expressed his opinion on how Nigeria’s subnational governments — state…
If presidency goes to south-west in 2023, Osinbajo NOT Tinubu will get my vote
Why are Nigerian politicians ravished by the thought of election? They complot and machinate over it. And when they eventually get into office, they spend four years scheming for another…
Aso Rock soap opera: Will there be a sequel?
Nigeria’s first family, the Buharis, are embroiled in a still-developing story resembling one of Nollywood’s many Sunday-evening soap operas, the BBC reports. It is a story…
Dismantling the Ubas’ Hold on Anambra Politics
Azubuike Ubani posits that the era of Uba brothers’ stranglehold on Anambra political terrain is over. The politics in Anambra State, South-east Nigeria is an interesting and at times a dramatic one.Since the…
Speaker Pelosi: Power personified
The saying “life is stranger than fiction”, may conjure images of happenstances that defy the imagination and stretch incredulity. Such occurrences may even engender universal awe and delight. Permit me to…
A game of numbers: My take on Igbo presidency
I had an impromptu lunch at my niece’s place last Sunday. It was at such an inconvenient time that I would ordinarily have let it pass. We had our cultural harvest in church which meant a longer day at church.Then…
Nigeria’s opposition is missing – Presidency
Last week, the Nigeria’s senate majority leader reintroduced anti-sexual harassment legislation to parliament, following a serious exposé by the BBC of a sex for grades scandal…
One item missing from the budget
Over breakfast and the obligatory cups of coffee somewhere in New York late September, a bright and enterprising Nigerian lady was, as it were, preaching to the…
22 Years Without Fela: Who Will Now Sing for Us?
How time flies…even the passage of the most illustrious amongst us will come and go like beautiful a flower in a windy forest…only hardened devotees, blessed with great drive and passion, may lay some…
Let’s rather do away with House of Reps, it’s an unnecessary burden
The flatulent size of the National Assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria’s lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in a country where about 100…
On Chibok girls, David Cameron may be right
I have read both the accounts of the former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and that of our former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan on what transpired in the…
Re: $26bn Diaspora remittances: Where are the dollars?
The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo. I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any…
Aisha Buhari, better return before someone else takes over the other room
If Aisha Buhari was banking on the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder, she may need to hear another which goes, out of sight is out of mind. The First…
The wages of waste
Here we go again. Nigeria is set for a crisis over the implementation, or the non-implementation, of the new minimum wage. The federal government, empowered…
Deconstructing Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council
The news of the recent appointment of an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) by President Muhammadu Buhari has elicited interesting comments from various stakeholders both from…
How I cemented my friendship with Aliko Dangote – Bill Gates
Have you ever met someone new and immediately felt like you could talk to them for hours? That happened the first time I met Aliko Dangote. A couple years ago, he and I ended up going…
Benefits of CBN’s cashless policy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has re-introduced charges on the deposit and withdrawals of sums above N500, 000 to promote a cashless economy. But curiously, the policy seems confusing to so many, no thanks to…
Osinbajo and the hounds
Sir: You can accuse Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of being ‘’down-to-earth’’, considering his pint-size. You can also accuse him of intellectual exuberance, but you cannot tack corruption…
IKOYI CLUB AT 81: The Youth And Leadership In Nation Building, Being The Text Delivered By Babatunde…
Ladies and gentlemen, let me thank the Vice Chairman of Ikoyi Club, who incidentally is Chairman of the anniversary sub-committee, Tafa Zibiri-Aliu, and by extension, the…
Ambode and Lagos apc need mediators urgently
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; for they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong.” John Dryden, 1631-1700. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS.The first part of this two-part series ended rather abruptly. But, I hope…