Category: Opinion

By Tunde Odesola Returning home from work on a humid evening in 2016, I asked my children their thoughts about visiting America. They took their gaze away from the TV, searched my eyes for seriousness, smiled doubtfully, and returned their gaze to the TV, exhibiting an air of ‘we have outgrown your pranks, this old […]

By Mohammad Sabiu and Wale Akinselure It is yet another moment of deep reflection on the state of the nation after days of protests triggered by what those behind it tagged #EndBadGovernance. Stakeholders in the Nigerian project are still busy counting majorly the losses so far inflicted on the country. Many protesters have lost their […]

By Richard Akinnola When the Dangote Refinery controversy blew up, naturally as someone wired to support anyone l perceive to be oppressed, this time, l lined up to support Dangote the richest man in Africa. I perceived he was being unduly treated by the Downstream and Midstream regulators, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory […]

By Wole Soyinka The time is long overdue, surely, to abandon, permanently, the anachronistic resort to lethal means by the security agencies of governance. No nation is so underdeveloped, materially impoverished, or simply internally insecure as to lack the will to set an example. All it takes is to recall its own history, then exercise […]

By Lasisi Olagunju “Someone should tell the president that what he said on Sunday was what the Hausa man calls dogo turenchi (long grammar). The broadcast showed that Tinubu’s understanding of what Nigerians are going through is zero. He spoke about the #EndBadGovernance protest being some people’s political agenda. If there is indeed an agenda, […]

By Nelson Fadoju It is hard to see what we are witnessing in Nigeria now and not “Weep for Our Beloved Country-Nigeria”.As an Elder, when a tree is felled in the bush, an Elder watches where it will fall. Nigerians are indeed suffering in silence. We saw it. It pervades in the bloodstreams of the […]

By Lasisi Olagunju Nigeria is a drama, an entertainment. Listen to the ‘Wahala’ singer, Portable, as he wonders why anyone would want him to join this week’s proposed protests. Yes, he admits that he joined protests in the past. But he says that was when he was poor. “Now I am rich…You want a rich […]

By Ladipo Adamolekun After the over-centralisation of about thirty years of rule by brass hats had contributed hugely to the country’s persistent underdevelopment, a civilian president ought not to be foisting increased federal power on the country. The urgent first steps are: (i) immediate review of the distorted revenue allocation formula inherited from the military […]

By Kingsley Moghalu The brouhaha is a symptom of the deeper problems of Nigeria’s political economy. It demonstrates how the Nigerian state and its government have failed to create a real economy that works for all Nigerians by lifting millions from poverty to prosperity, but instead have promoted vested interests of various kinds in the […]

By Tunde Odeslola Parenting is a tough turf. It’s also a free-for-all terrain where everyone claims expertness. When in a free fall, parenting is like the blabber around the round leather game, with noisy fans professing possession of better tactics than the god of Tiki-Taka, Pep Guardiola, though they cannot tap the ball into a […]