Category: Opinion

One month shy of the closure of President Bola Tinubu’s promised duty-free window on food imports, Nigerians are left with nothing but empty promises. On October 1, the President’s address confirmed the government’s duty-free policy for essential food imports. This measure, proposed to alleviate skyrocketing food prices, has become an utter disappointment. Nigeria’s inflation crisis—at […]

What does the World Bank want? The question is pertinent in light of its deadly stance on Nigeria’s precarious fate. The country borrowed over $24 billion from the global lender in five years. In 16 months, the Bola Tinubu administration borrowed $6.45 billion. Within this short period, Nigeria sank deeper into crisis thanks to Tinubu’s […]

By Farooq A. Kperogi I fully anticipate that most Nigerians will figuratively call for my head after reading this headline. How could it be that a leader who has inflicted such profound and unrelenting hardship upon the populace, and who appears utterly disinclined to offer even the smallest relief, could ever be missed? (Tinubu’s wirepullers […]

The hike in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas―also known as cooking gas —from N700/kilogramme in June 2023, a month after President Bola Tinubu assumed office to N1,500/kilogramme in October 2024, is one that should call for urgent and strategic actions from the Federal Government. The price increase is tied to the current foreign exchange […]

After several speculations, President Bola Tinubu recently returned from London to announce a cabinet reshuffle. While Nigerians continue to debate the prospects of the redeployed and appointed ministers, the removal of some underperforming ministers could only be justified by a clean sweep of other underachievers who have clung to power and influence as ministers. Unfortunately, […]

By Abimbola Adelakun Each time another minister of the FCT declares yet another war on the beggars in the nation’s capital, I am reminded of Aminata Sow Fall’s famous novel, The Beggars’ Strike. The plot is built around a government that wants to get beggars off the streets so they can effectively promote tourism. The […]

By Tunde Odesola From the bottomless depth of Yoruba divinity, I fetch the myth of Ajala, whose popular name is Obatala. Ajala is the heavenly potter tasked with the duty of moulding human heads. Ori is the Yoruba word for head. Ori encases destiny. In Igbo cosmology, a person’s Chi, like Ori, is a personal […]

The new report by the World Bank has revealed that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of ending world poverty by 2030 will be unrealistic. According to the global lender in the report titled, “Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report”, “poverty remained concentrated in countries with historically low economic growth and high levels of fragility, many […]