Category: Opinion

By Martins Oloja As I was saying last week, some facts of the history of 1964 election can be part of our useful guide at this critical time when politicians seem to be concerned only with how to win election without considering the consequences of the 1964 election, which set the tone for the paradise […]

Buhari addressing NASS at the budget presentation. Photo/Facebook/ MuhammaduBuhari The rigmarole in the management of the country’s public finance since 2015 came to its climax with the recent announcement by the Federal Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, that government plans to borrow a whopping N11.3 trillion to finance the 2023 federal budget. This projected budget […]

By Ogheneochuko E. Arodovwe The longest-serving British monarch in history passed on on September 8, 2022 at about 8.30pm after a 70-year reign. Her death has expectedly generated reactions – pleasant and not-too-pleasant – from all across the globe. Her first son and now King of Britain, Charles III leads the club of the pleasant […]

By Martins Oloja Our politicians and political leaders (some of them offspring of our First Republic politicians) are on the march again. They know the story of how the First Republic fell to the Federal Republic of the Nigerian Army in 1966. They are ignoring the warnings of legends such as Bernard Shaw about the […]

Ostensibly raising an alarm over the congestion of the correctional centres in Lagos State, the Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOs) recently observed that no fewer than 353 inmates are currently on death row at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre. As disturbing as it is, the remark has once again thrown up the […]

By Marcel Okeke Recently, to the chagrin and perhaps, bewilderment of most Nigerians, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government inaugurated a ‘Presidential Committee on the National Economy’—just about 35 weeks to the end of the eight-year (two terms) tenure of the Administration. Truly, not a few Nigerians were stupefied by this ‘eleventh hour’ or ‘injury […]

The fourteen-year-old stowaway boy found in an aircraft at the Ikeja Airport in Lagos is symptomatic of the frustration of the Nigerian youth with a system that has failed them serially. Even though despair and desperation may seem the only recourse, the youth have to recalibrate and chart a different course of action in spite […]

By Niran Adedokun Last Thursday’s death of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom brought another opportunity to interrogate Nigerians’ perception of their own realities. Before her transition, arguments had risen as to the exact place of the monarch in history. A professor of Nigerian descent stirred the hornet’s nest with a tweet which recalled Great […]

By Festus Eriye The passing of Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, was bound to be an epochal event. For over seventy years she was the only such leader her countrymen ever knew. On the global stage she outlasted over 14 US presidents and innumerable world leaders. She had become a constant fixture in […]