Category: Opinion

The July 27 military takeover of government in the Niger Republic continues the recent anomalous trend in the Sahel that has seen the overthrow of democratic administrations in Mali and Burkina Faso. It is the seventh military takeover in less than three years in West and Central Africa, undermining democratic progress in one of the […]

#EndSARS protesters Thirty months after its tragic climax, the #EndSARS youth protest movement and its aftermath continue to reverberate and ruffle the conscience of a country that serially betrays its youth. In the latest peep into the thick official cover wrapped around the mass protest’s aftermath, a leaked memo revealed how the Lagos State Government […]

NLC protests national Assembly By Samuel Akinnuga Anyone familiar with the nature of conversations on social media these days would understand where I’m coming from with the choice of this topic. For those who do not, I will give a little background. In one of those last courtesy visits to the villa, then president-elect Bola […]

In the midst of raging reactions to last week’s coup in Niger Republic, the resilience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to be applauded in an era of new regionalism. Nations exist in a world of interdependence warranting the expression that no nation is an island. It is this reality that […]

By Temitope Ajayi A pattern has emerged in the arguments many of the partisan and ideological critics routinely make on television stations. There is this tendency to always muddle up facts and mislead the public, notably through willful ignorance. One point that has been erroneously made is the view that the Federal Government is not […]

By Martins Oloja The dust raised by the removal of the controversial fuel subsidy hasn’t settled. It is worth writing about. There is an issue in Tinubu’s inconclusive cabinet-making. That too is a good topic this weekend. There is governance garbage in Pa Ajasin’s Ondo State, where there is a paralysis of analysis that correspondents […]

Opposition by the National Assembly to the proposal for a 40 percent increase in electricity tariffs in the country is logical and in tandem with the realities of power supply and the economics of Nigerians. Electricity providers have so far fallen short of reasonable expectations of Nigerians most of whom are suffering untold hardship arising […]

Men steer a dugout canoe past a flooded house following heavy rain in the Nigerian town of Lokoja, in Kogi State, on September 14, 2018. / AFP Photo / Sodiq Adelakun Concerns that the end of ‘August break’, marking a temporary cessation of rain in most parts of the country next month would trigger the […]

Nigeria Prison By granting state pardons to 30 prisoners, and setting them free from the custody of the Lagos and Ogun states Correctional Centres, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba has set the tone for prison reforms in the country. His effort is commendable, given the deteriorating condition of the country’s correctional […]