Category: Opinion

By Martins Oloja ‘The puzzle of 240 million people with Doctors everywhere but no hospital at home’. There is a video in circulation this week that should make every Nigerian leader hide his face in shame. In it, a former Head of State – General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who handed over power to President Olusegun Obasanjo […]

By Tunde Odesola Exactly on June 17, 1958 – two years before the oxygen of independence filled Nigeria’s lungs, and eight years before Nigeria began to fall apart to political crisis – a 27-year-old savant, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, published a globally acclaimed masterpiece in African prose: “Things Fall Apart”. Sixty-eight years after the watershed publication, […]

Sixty-six years after flag independence, millions of Nigerians remain hungry. Millions of children are out of school. Infrastructure is grossly inadequate. The country still depends far too heavily on crude oil income. Nigeria’s resources, including vast arable land, water bodies, oil, gas, solid minerals, a young population, and extraordinary human talent, have yet to translate […]

By Olayide Adelami As Nigeria marks 66 years of independence and begins her 67th year as a sovereign nation, October 1 should be more than an occasion for celebration. It should be a moment for sober reflection: Where did we begin? How far have we travelled? What went wrong along the way? And, most importantly, […]

Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe Nigeroa’s power crisis has defied privatisation, tariff reforms, market restructuring, presidential committees, recovery programmes and countless promises. What it has not confronted yet is sustained political will to make the entire electricity value chain work as one commercial and technical system. That is why the diagnosis offered by the Minister […]

Heavy traffic on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Credit: Daniel Ayantoye. Nigeroa’s foremost Trunk ‘A’ highway, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, stretches 127.6 kilometres across Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states. As part of the Trans-Saharan Highway network, it connects the South-West to other parts of the country and serves as a major artery for commerce, industry and human movement. Yet […]

Violence remains a talking point in Nigeria. Thus, the persistent killings in Plateau State are another grim reminder of how dangerously accustomed Nigerians have become to violence. The Northern Christian Association condemned the latest attacks, warning that the country must not reach a point where the deaths of innocent citizens are treated as routine occurrences. […]

By Ade Oyeyemi A former Director of Project Monitoring and Supervision at the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dr Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, has described the late elder statesman, Chief Albert Korubo Horsfall, as one of the key figures whose contributions shaped the development intervention framework in the Niger Delta. Audu-Ohwavborua spoke during a remembrance ceremony held in […]

By: Ven. Amb. Nelson Fadoju If you want to know the true state of Nigeria today, don’t go to the air-conditioned halls of UNGA in New York. Come to Oja Oba in Akure,Ondo State, Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti State, to Bodija Market in Ibadan,Oyo State, to Mile 12 in Lagos and other markets in Portharcourt, Onitsha […]

By Ade Oyeyemi Development advocate and Ondo State stakeholder, Dr Femi Akinkuebi, has urged the Ondo State Government to begin preparations for a technology-driven policing system as the constitutional process for the establishment of State Police Services gathers momentum. Akinkuebi said Ondo should look beyond merely supporting the proposed constitutional amendment and start developing a […]