Category: Opinion

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu By Steve Otaloro As Nigeria gradually approaches the 2027 presidential election, it is important to assess leadership not merely by today’s hardships but by the courage to confront decades-old structural problems that previous administrations acknowledged yet failed to resolve. Throughout Nigeria’s democratic journey, successive governments assembled committees, economic experts, and policy […]

By Tunde Odesola In plain sight, a dirge should not walk hand in hand with a joke. Both are not like-minded. However, hiding behind the elasticity of rhetoric, the word ‘dirge’ and its seeming opposite ‘joke’ can live together under the same roof without wahala. In orature, collocation of strange bedfellows like ‘holy devil’, ‘sweetest […]

By Ven.Amb.Nelson Fadoju. It was late I.K Dairo that sang a Song titled “Ise Ori ran mi ni mo nse…Eniba jale lo bomo je” meaning that, “I am doing a destined business in order not to be a thief”. An idle hand is a devil’s workshop. Whoever refuses to work will steal (Eni o sise, […]

By Dan D. Kunle For more than five decades, Nigerians have lived through one petroleum pricing policy after another. Since 1973, successive governments have attempted to moderate or control the pricing mechanism for petroleum products. This gave birth to the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), established to ensure uniform fuel prices across the country. Today, under […]

By; Steve Otaloro History is often unkind to institutions that forget the shoulders upon which they stand. The greatest tribute any organisation can pay to its pioneers is not merely by engraving their names on imposing buildings or instituting academic endowments in their honour, but by preserving the ideals and enduring legacies they laboured to […]

Senator Dayo Faduyile By Martins Oloja There comes a time When we heed a certain call When the world must come together as one… We can go on Pretending day by day That someone somewhere will soon make a change We are all a part of God’s great big family And the truth, you know […]

By Steve Otaloro Politics is often mistaken for the pursuit of personal ambition. Yet history reserves its finest pages for leaders who labour for causes greater than themselves. Such leaders understand that the true measure of political stewardship is not merely the offices one occupies, but the institutions one strengthens and the victories one secures […]

By Steve Otaloro A nation’s greatness is measured not merely by the wealth beneath its soil, but by the infrastructure upon which its people build prosperity. History has repeatedly shown that every major economic power first laid steel before it accumulated wealth. Railways are not simply transportation systems; they are the arteries through which commerce, […]

President Bola Tinubu The National Assembly’s decision to extend, for a third time, the implementation of the capital component of the 2025 Appropriation Act, from June 30 to September 30, 2026, is yet another symptom of the chaos that has come to define Nigeria’s budget cycles under the Bola Tinubu administration. Nigeria’s public finance management […]