Category: Opinion

Late Oluwabamise Ayankole (Photo credit: The Guardian) By Hakeem Jamiu Nigeria is fast gaining notoriety as a country of ritualists with stories of ritual killings daily reported in the traditional and social media. The latest of this cannibalistic atrocity is the gruesome murder of 22 year old Oluwabamise Ayankole who was abducted after boarding a […]

This is the great expectation after the murder of Oluwabamise Ayanwole A far cry from the mostly ragged and derelict Molue buses that once dominated the roads and defined the transport landscape in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial, industrial and financial hub, the more elegant, secure and dignified Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicles are now a permanent […]

By Idowu Akinlotan IT is remarkable that what looked like a successful palace coup last week to oust the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker chairman, Mai Mala Buni, has collapsed spectacularly. Indeed the party dominated the headlines almost completely last week. Niger State governor Abubakar Sani-Bello, citing the approbation of President Muhammadu Buhari, took control […]

It is clearer now that the higher the price of cement, the less affordable for housing and the more people in need of shelter. But to have a firm grip on cement rate will require more than an executive fiat or a casual appeal to market oligopoly. A serious intervention to assuage the deficit must […]

By Reuben Abati So much has happened locally and globally recently – the nerve-wracking fuel scarcity in Nigeria, the war in Ukraine, the signing of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and the attendant controversies, the amendment of 68 clauses in the 1999 Constitution also, so much really that the Nigerian commentariat has more or less […]

By Femi Adesina A story broke last week that you would think would be everywhere, topic of discussion on both traditional and new media. But not a murmur, nor a whisper. In fact, mum was the word in many quarters. What was the story? The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an international and independent, […]

By Ayo Olukotun Earlier this week, the Federal High Court in Abuja in a landmark judgement ruled that the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, his Deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe, and 16 members of the State House of Assembly vacate their seats. Their offence? Abandoning the Peoples Democratic Party, under which standard they were elected […]

By Dare Babarinsa Lagos is an urban jungle of concrete and skyscrapers, of the dirty drainages and dirtier minds. Like in most jungles, there are always unseeing beasts crawling silently in the undergrowths. In the night, the urban jungle is alive with beasts of prey and beautiful reptiles with shining colours and deadly fangs. In […]

By Yemi Akintomide Amidst lingering crisis, which was fueled by very deep stormy controversy that has been confronting the Ondo State chapter of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) since the October 2016 Governorship Election, one golden fish, hitherto hidden at the deepest part of the sea, has pumped up to the surface to the admiration of […]

By Ben Ezeohagwu Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on 7th, October, 1952, a Russian Politician and former Intelligence Officer, who is the President of Russia, a Position he has held since 2012, and previously from 1999 until 2008. He was also the Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Vladimir […]