Category: Opinion

AFTER the Central Bank of Nigeria’s farcical redesign of the naira a year ago ended in chaos, cash scarcity has returned in force. Since November, Nigerians have been traumatised while trying to withdraw cash at banking halls and ATMs. Many have resorted to PoS operators, who have promptly raised their charges. Coming ahead of the […]

By Abimbola Adelakun Stories of godfathers and godsons falling out in Nigerian politics are tales as old as Nigeria’s democratic time; there is no new angle to them. They all follow the same plot: a monied godfather sponsors a godson to political power; godson gets into power and resents being kept on a puppet string; […]

By Abdu Rafiu There is something about the season; there is an inexplicable feeling of joy you want to hit the air with your fist. Of course, where there is joy, there is a light and uplifting feeling. There is a quickening you want to do a thousand things at the same time. There is […]

Amid growing circles of poverty plaguing Nigerians, the disdain and alarm being expressed across the country over humongous sums of money budgeted for patently undeserving projects are most appropriate. A lot of money is being voted in the 2024 Budget for a few members of the Federal Government without regard for their adverse effects on […]

By Ray Ekpu There is a festering sore in Rivers State that is threatening to become an epidemic. It started effectively on October 29 when a part of the State House of Assembly was bombed and it caught fire. This followed the move made by 24 members of the State House of Assembly to impeach […]

Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, on day two of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. More than 70,000 politicians, diplomats, campaigners, financiers, and business leaders will fly to Dubai to talk about arresting the world’s slide toward environmental catastrophe. (Photo AFP) That the administration of […]

By Tunde Bamise It is budget season again for Nigeria. In November, President Bola Tinubu assented to the 2023 Supplementary Budget, and, a few weeks later, presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly. Naturally, this has been followed by a lot of debate and conversation about the details of the budget. President Tinubu, in […]

By Fayemi David Olusoga At this point, not too many literate citizens of the world can feign ignorance of what is going on between Israel and Hamas in the densely populated Gaza strip. My concern is not for the ignorant but rather for the enlightened-uninformed among the several commentators around the world. Since the end […]

By Martins Oloja The universal city and global relevance There is therefore no doubt that the ‘Universal City’ called the University needs internationalisation at this age of digital technologies when artificial intelligence (AI) is threatening to take over everybody’s job schedules in the world of work. Note the contextualisation in North America, China, U.K; the […]

Pensioner Against the pitiable situation of many public sector retirees, it is disheartening that most states in the country are patently guilty of violating the statutory pension scheme. Reports indicate that out of the 36 states of the federation, only six and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have fully implemented the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) […]