Category: Opinion

By Wale Ojo-Lanre I have watched — carefully and repeatedly — the video being circulated where the President of Nigeria, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was reported by some to have “fallen.” Having observed it without prejudice, hysteria, or political intoxication, one conclusion remains unassailable: the President slipped; he did not fall. There is a clear, […]

Most Nigerian leaders pretend to love God. They sponsor religious pilgrimages not in the service of God, but in the service of man, mostly to gain political capital and win support in elections. The Federal Government has allocated N11.5 billion for religious pilgrimages in the 2026 budget. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria receives N5.99 […]

Nigeria’s bank customers endure unfair deals offered by financial institutions, where they are forced to pay eye-watering interest rates for loans, while earning a measly return on their hard-earned savings. A new CBN report reveals that banks charge up to 60 per cent on loans, while paying an average of 2.7-8.15 per cent on savings […]

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa. Buba Marwa, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, listed the agency’s staggering seizures in its five-year scorecard in Abuja on 20 January. Between 2020 and 2025, the NDLEA arrested at least 77,792 […]

By Tunde Odesola The pigeon and the chicken are not neighbours. It is the heavy rain that fell which made them strange bedfellows. The pigeon is the priest of the air, the chicken is the scratcher on land. Long before the first corn sprouted, long before humans learnt to normalise chaos, the sky’s tear glands […]

By Tunde Odesola Does anyone know why the chicken has no teeth? Honestly, I don’t. But I know its humble beginnings, dating back in time. That was when the chicken tilled the earth with its beak and four-toe pronged legs, fending for its daily bread. That was the time when the chicken was left to […]

By; Steve Otaloro Lagos is not merely a city; it is an economic force of nature. Perched on the Atlantic coast, restless, crowded, chaotic, and endlessly creative, Lagos has evolved into the beating commercial heart of Nigeria and one of the most consequential urban economies in the Global South. Today, with an estimated GDP of […]

By Farooq A. Kperogi Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike revels in controversies, contentious public disputations, vituperative recriminations, and tensile political stress like a pig exults in mud. Peace and harmony bore him to tears. That is why he has an incrementally lengthening list of political spats with multiple people. His quarrel with Governor […]

By Yunde Odesola Before the raving hawk disappeared into the sunny afternoon sky, the mother hen caught a glimpse of it just in time. Squawking and clucking, the brown mother hen sounded a throaty alarm, frantically calling on her 11 chicks, who sprinted into the sanctuary of her warm wings, where they brooded, peeping through […]

By Abimbola Adelakun Anyone who expected Nigerians to push back against foreign intervention in the country’s insecurity and insist that their national sovereignty be respected would have found themselves awfully wrong by now. Not only did people seem excited, but the euphoria that accompanied the Christmas Day bombings in Sokoto showed how quickly we can […]