Opinion

Many Yoruba people voted for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or the Labour Party…

Two sets of tax bills supposedly drafted by the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which could significantly alter the distribution of Value Added Tax revenues among Nigeria’s federal, state,…

It is okay if you do not want to vote for former President Donald Trump in the November 5, US presidential election. But please, do not compare Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. It is not fair. Here are the top ten…

The Guardian newspaper is alarmed by the State House Press Statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy on October 26, 2024, on the newspaper’s lead story titled…

Praise the Lord! President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed ministers and heads of departments and agencies to reduce the number of vehicles in their convoys to three and their security personnel to a maximum of five.…

Members of my generation who lived or spent holidays in Lagos during the late seventies to the nineties remember men whose lives were…

Breaking News: The World Bank has endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic policy, suggesting that Nigeria must maintain its current reforms for the next 10 to 15 years in order to be able to transform…

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recently published a damning report on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing trends in Nigeria based on findings by a leading DNA testing centre in Lagos. According to the report,…

On the 19th of October, 2023, Nigerians will roll out the drums in celebration of a truly remarkable personage, who has left an indelible mark in the annals African history – General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former…

In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out and…

By Femi Fani-Kayode “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not but do lie — behold, I will make them to come and worship at thy feet and to know that I have loved…

One challenge every government since Obasanjo has faced is the growing cost of governance. The cost of running our democracy is among the highest in the world, consuming trillions of Naira annually. Servicing…

Well, well, well… what an eventful week! So eventful I was unsure of what topic to write about. I started out wanting to do a follow-up to my last article,…

In my last piece for the year 2023, precisely on the 27th of December, I posed the question in an article entitled: ABUSIVE GODFATHER­ISM: IS WIKE NOT OVEREACH­ING HIMSELF? It is now apparent that Wike has overreached…

“A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.” – Alexis de Tocquiville, 1805-1859”. African leaders also cannot gradually enlarge their minds just as they expand their appetites for…

We have no doubt that a combination of incom­petence, corruption, graft, inadequate fund­ing, inappropriate policies, obsolete and non-functional equipment, pipe­line vandalism and bunkering, occa­sioned by…

Days ago, I stumbled on a fierce social media debate. It was centred on when Nigeria moved from “federal” to “unitary” system.…

Today, I find myself in a rather peculiar situation, writing on a topic I never expected to approach—no matter how relevant it might be to our collective mental health. Yet, I’ve come to realise that there’s often…

Nigeria is currently facing a series of profound challenges, including insecurity, the removal of fuel subsidies, the devaluation of the Naira, and an increase in electricity tariffs. Addressing these issues requires…

The old saying that it is improper to keep repeating one thing over and over again but expecting a different result cannot be overemphasised in the case of Olayemi Cardoso, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, and…

You have to feel for today’s generation. Of all the deprivation inflicted on them by the chain of failed leadership in Nigeria, the most severe is denying them access to the works of first generation literary giants…

The defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in last Saturday’s governorship election Edo State was largely predicted on the internal rancour that bedevilled the state chapter of the party. Senator…

Time flies. No, I am not talking about the fact that the United Bank for Africa (UBA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. As a financial institution that was set up during colonial rule, it has every reason to…

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had barely finished announcing the result of last Saturday’s Edo governorship poll when I got a call to eat the humble pie. Senator Adams Oshiomhole, the man I called…