Fuel scarcity in Nigeria is no mere inconvenience; it is a national ritual of dread. For the average Nigerian, the words “fuel strike” summon images of serpentine queues, swollen prices, and the paralysis of daily […]
A colleague of mine, who lives in a community off the popular Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, once described himself as his own local government chairman. Since I know that he is not a politician […]
The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, with the bitter face like Dr Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan of the Star Trek movie, is something of a bearer of bad […]
At a Round-table on Electoral Reforms organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last week in Abuja, the Chairman of the Commission made an important foray into the forest of challenges which our electoral […]
In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he promised to hand over power to an elected civilian […]
Some wonder why Nigeria is taking loans from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and China, if indeed the country is saving a lot from the removal of subsidies. Also, they wonder why high inflation […]
Are we cursed, or are we the cause? I mean, did our ancestors or adversaries swear to us that this great country shall never be developed? By this time next month, we will be basking […]
When 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullahi Aminu from Yobe State won the 2025 TeenEagle Global English Championship in London—emerging top among participants from around the world—it should have been a moment of national jubilation. Instead, she was […]
A race of giants. The Yoruba had been producing monumental men and women long before Nigeria became a country. Professor Adelola Adeloye’s ‘African Pioneers of Modern Medicine’ (1985) has a list of eleven Nigerians who […]
For years, “signing out” has marked a milestone for many Nigerian students, a rite of passage where white shirts become canvases of farewell messages and excitement fills the air. But what once symbolised celebration is […]
The matter I have to convey to you is so compelling enough that I do not have the luxury of observing protocols. From the above title, Mr. President, you can discern that the issue has […]
Our Aviation Industry has been in the news recently and for the wrong reasons. It started with the humongous amount to be spent repositioning Murtala Mohammed Airport as the hub for Nigeria and the West […]
No hiding place for bad behaviour. That is the innocuous message a federal court in Canada, quietly passed to members of Nigeria’s political class, when it upheld the opinion of that country’s Immigration Appeal Division […]
A few weeks ago, an outburst of then aspirant for Nigeria’s presidential office, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marked its third anniversary. On 2 June, 2022, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Tinubu bit the bullet in […]
The Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, Osun State, has said the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, may be under a spell due to repeated clashes between them. […]
To understand the Igbo–Yoruba squabbles, I took a detour into the heart of South Asia, not across Nigeria, but across continents. I “landed” in India and Pakistan on April 17, 2024 — the very day […]
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. has always been a man in the middle of storms, sometimes as a celebrated environmental champion, other times as a lightning rod for controversy. Now, at 71, the son of Robert […]
The by-elections held across the country last Saturday in 16 constituencies across 12 states, in terms of the organization, the process and outcomes would seem to confirm one painful truth, namely that Nigeria’s democracy is […]
Abimbola Owoade, the Alaafin of Oyo, has disputed the authority of Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, to confer the title of Okanlomo of Yorubaland on businessman Dotun Sanusi. In a statement issued on Monday […]
Anas Jamal al-Sharif cried on air as he reported the on-going starvation of Gaza, a city of 2.1 million people. In so doing, he signed his death warrant. The regime in Israel said he was […]
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