Issues/Policy

After many years of procrastination and proclamations about fuel subsidy, the decision by President Bola Tinubu announcing Nigeria’s departure from fuel subsidy cannot be timelier. This is more so against the backdrop of the big […]

The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political circles as its percussion impacted virtually all spheres of life. It […]

While Malcolm X says “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”; Nelson Mandela says “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to […]

Browsing through the internet this morning, I came across an article written by one Bob Majiri Oghene Etemiku, which he titled: “Buhari’s Blood Runs Through Osinbajo’s White Agbada.” In the said article, Etemiku stooped so […]

On Monday May 22, 2023, policymakers and captains of industries from across the world converged at the Lekki axis of Lagos state for the commissioning of the world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels-per-day petroleum refinery, built […]

Without any iota of doubt, Nigeria was the cynosure of all eyes on Monday, May 29, 2023, when the country inaugurated its new President at the Federal Capital Abuja. The event attracted the crème de […]

As I was saying last Monday, misgovernment at sub-national levels poses more threat to our democracy than we are programmed to admit. Our minds are always fixed on the Federal Government. But we can’t keep […]

Jim O’ Neill, the Chief economist of the multinational investment bank, Goldman Sachs, in 2001 coined the acronym BRIC, which initially stood for Brazil, Russia, Indian and China. At the time, the four countries were […]

To say that the post-secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the […]

There is so much to say and to write about the month of May. May is the fifth month of the year. As numerologists are wont to say, but mostly those who preoccupy themselves with […]

The sun glowed brightly over the Aso Rock Villa last Wednesday as the federal cabinet, headed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), met for the last time. How time flies! For some, the […]

Each person is a thread in the tapestry of creation but some people stand outside of the weave directing the thread and painting the pictures that become reality. Tokunbo Wahab, the immediate past Special Adviser […]

On 31 December 1983, Sani Abacha, then an unknown Brigadier in the Nigerian Army, went on radio to announce the overthrow of the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari, claiming that the military had […]

With increasing intensity as the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s era hurtles to an embarrassing end, the truth has become inescapable: his government is as much a lie as any other. I have given […]

For some time now, I have been feeling bored about the happenings, political and non-political, all about us in our land, this land of dire hunger and dismal poverty and sub-human insecurity from everywhere to […]

Others at that time were particularly not happy that the debt profile of the country would soon rise to $60 billion from less than the $20 billion it was before the present government came to […]

As countries explore the most effective ways of promoting international human and labour rights standards beyond the traditional foreign instruments and mechanisms, most developed countries have found trade agreements or preferences viable tools in this […]

In a few days, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is eager to retire peacefully, will leave Nigerians and Nigeria in fragile pieces, as well as an economy that is struggling to survive. Buhari’s administration will be […]

All things, either good or bad, must come to an end in due season. The fate of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is no exception. As AMCON continues to lament its inability to […]