Category: Opinion

Grounded labour city transit bus By Alabi Williams We saw it coming. Leftist arguments in support of a little subsidy for multi-dimensionally poor Nigerians no longer convinced some, the same people who marketed similar arguments in 2012. In the eight years of the Buhari administration, it appears some have fed too fat to retain old beliefs […]

By Bisi Olawunmi From the time candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared President-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) he would have been inundated with visits and proposals by those seeking to get the first leg in with his impending administration. They are the Lobbyists selling ideas and also some pitching for procurements – […]

Even as June 12, 1993, being marked today as Democracy Day remains sacred in the annals of the country’s history as the day that birthed true democracy, the swearing-in of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023 (30 years after) as Nigeria’s president, fifth since the inauguration of the Fourth Republic and sixteenth since […]

President Bola Tinubu will go down in history as the first Nigerian leader to trigger a national crisis in his very first hour in office. Amid the current asphyxiating socioeconomic climate, his impetuous “subsidy is gone!” declaration at his inauguration immediately triggered panic buying of petrol, whose pump prices rose by over 250 percent, and […]

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, is reeling under the strangulating grip of street thugs, violent transport union enforcers also known as agbero, cultists, and sundry criminals. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu must reengineer the security and transportation systems to surmount these threats that have made living in Lagos barely tolerable for its 22 million residents. In his […]

By Tony Afejuku Who are President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political strategists, democratic strategists, law and legal strategists, capitalist development strategists, economic strategists, and media strategists? These questions which emphasize what President Tinubu and the masses of our people are up against are ones that cannot be swept under the carpet and must not be swept […]

Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s last throw of the dice in office mirrors his tardy handling of governance in eight years. Without any known process or protocol, his blanket conferment of national awards on friends, staff, and cronies, and in a riotous manner, falls far below the line of decency, dignity, and prestige expected of national […]

By Adolphus Aletor While Malcolm X says “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”; Nelson Mandela says “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world”. These are a powerful insight into the importance of education in our society. The […]

By Dare Babarinsa On Monday, May 29, 2023, Nigeria welcomed a new President and Commander-in-Chief to the epicenter of national power. The ascension of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an affirmation that Nigerian democracy is maturing and moving into a new cruising level. During his inaugural address, Tinubu affirmed that the subsidy on petroleum products […]