Category: Opinion

By Eze Onyekpere Nigeria’s economy is in free fall and all the macroeconomic indicators are headed south. There is no solution in sight and the managers of the economy have proferred none. The citizens are apparently at the mercy of the authorities and are looking up for help. The managers of the economy seem to […]

By Opeyemi Bamidele Yesterday, the National Assembly, the truest custodian and guardian of Nigeria’s democracy, resumed plenary after a 49-day annual recess. Contrary to what most people believe, annual recess is not a period of recreation or vacation for us as representatives of the people across 109 senatorial districts and 360 federal constituencies nationwide. Rather, […]

By Olusegun Adeniyi Fifteen of our 36 governors and three deputy governors traveled to Kigali, Rwanda last month for a three-day executive leadership retreat. We were told the trip was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). The retreat was reportedly designed to enable our governors […]

IGP Kayode Egbetokun Responding to recent questions regarding the indiscriminate checkpoints across the country that disrupt the flow of traffic and encourage extortion and other inappropriate behaviours by police officers, the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, stated that the Nigeria Police Force cannot vacate the checkpoints. He added that checkpoints are vibrant parts of […]

By Sola Olatunji Exactly 10 years ago, he bade the world final Goodbye at a relatively tender age of 65. Dr Olusegun Kokumo Agagu may have gone to the world beyond but his legacies remain evergreen in the mind of his Ikale people of Ondo State and many Nigerians who saw him as a leading […]

Twenty-four years into civilian rule, extrajudicial killings are rising and undermining human rights and democracy in Nigeria. Last Thursday, police in the Federal Capital Territory put down a violent protest following a report that agents of the Department of State Services had killed a fashion designer and injured several other persons. Although it later emerged […]

Farce descended recently on Ogun State over the operations of its local governments, drawing attention to Nigeria’s broken LG system. A dispute blew open when the Chairman of Ijebu East LG, Wale Adedayo, accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the statutory funds of the state’s LGs. The state government promptly denied the allegations. Then events […]

By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyink The SDGs, among others, seek to reduce poverty, improve access to health care and education, mitigate the effects of climate change, and attain food security by 2030. We are not meeting the key Goals. Africa is unable to feed itself. We found during COVID-19 that we cannot produce a large percentage of […]

Across the country, recourse to fraud and ritual murder by both older individuals and youths seeking instant wealth is mounting. In a recent case in Andoni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 12 suspected Internet scammers, aka “Yahoo boys,” were arrested in late August for burying a day-old baby alive in a macabre voodoo ritual. The desperate […]