Category: Opinion

Incidentally, Nigeria clocked 61 as an independent country this year. As though fated to be so, this 61st edition of our editorial advocacy to return the country to a federal state structure concludes the remarkable serial on ‘Federalism is the answer, after all.’ Last year, we began with the knowledge that Nigeria was suffering from […]

By Abimbola Adelakun Of all the arguments advanced by the Nigerian Army for punishing Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, the soldier who accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend while at the NYSC camp, only one is sufficient. But first, let us do away with the ones that do not hold water. One, and according to […]

By Niran Adedokun All said and done, the drama attending the amendment of Nigeria’s Electoral Act is about the political class and not the people. Pretend as they may, members of the National Assembly’s attempt to foist direct primaries on the nomination processes of political parties is suspect. It is evident of a desire to […]

By Dare Babarinsa Today is the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Chief Bola Ige, first elected Governor of old Oyo State (now Oyo and Osun) and deputy leader of Afenifere. He was then the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, serving in the government of his friend, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. It […]

President Muhammadu Buhari presenting the 2022 budget to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja The allegation by the Senate on the N16 billion padding of the 2022 Federal Government budget proposal by Ministry of Environment showcases the sorry state of the budgeting process in Nigeria. There are many others like this and […]

The threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to embark on strike for the umpteenth time, amidst the marginal position of Nigerian universities in the global university ranking, has once again called for deep reflection about the state of the institutions. Such a reflection has become necessary given the quest for foreign education […]

By Tunde Odesola Only three reasons could make me follow President Muhammadu Buhari and his former victim, Chief Adebisi Abdulkareem Akande, into the jungle; not the President’s false claims on security, not the news that 3,125 persons were killed and 2,703 others were abducted in the North alone, in the last 11 months. As a […]

The issue of removal of subsidy on liquid related derivatives of crude oil in Nigeria has been in the front burner since 1999. The argument against the continuous payment of subsidies to importers of premium motor spirits and other related paraffins was hinged on the fact that cheap cost of fuel in Nigeria aids the […]

Sylvester This is the million naira question. By Tunji Adegboyega So much has been said and written about the untimely death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, a Junior Secondary School 2 (JSS) student of Dowen College, in eyebrow Lekki axis of Lagos State, and we are still going to hear more because the story is still […]

Photo: NAN By Jerome-Mario Utomi With the amendment of the Electoral Act that presently accommodates the electronic transmission of results, one can say that as a nation, we have made some political/electoral gains. However, by the report put together by the Centre For Value in Leadership (CVL), Lagos in partnership with the Policy and Legal […]