Category: Opinion

By Martins Oloja Power is shifting – from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. Power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose – Moises Naim, former Foreign Policy Editor. From May 29, 2023, our nation’s eyes […]

By Dan Agbese It is only fair that we should formally welcome President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 18 new state governors who assumed office on Democracy Day, May 29. They have become our ogas. They are not our messiahs but ordinary Nigerians who might, as President Ibrahim Babangida once told me of himself, do […]

Taking the oath of office on Monday, President Bola Tinubu reiterated his campaign promise to accord priority attention to upgrading the country’s abject infrastructure and continue his predecessor’s effort in this regard. With a gargantuan shortfall across all sectors and deepening poverty and economic distress among others across the land, Nigerians will hold him to […]

Taking office at a time of spiraling economic adversity, President Bola Tinubu certainly has a lot on his plate in the days ahead. From the debt crisis to the petrol subsidy debacle, the crashing naira to escalating inflation, receding foreign direct investment to food scarcity and unemployment, to a depressed electricity sub-sector, he has no […]

Students in the lecture hall By Tunde Akanni To say that the post-secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the theme of the convocation lecture of Modibbo Adama University, Yola delivered Friday, May […]

After several decades of navigating the country’s predatory political waters, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, 71, attained his lifelong ambition with his inauguration on Monday as Nigeria’s sixth civilian Executive President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. But be careful what you wish for, goes an ancient Chinese proverb. After bruising political battles, including a highly contested […]

A collapsed building in Banana Island, Lagos The government of Lagos State has every reason to not only get concerned, but thoroughly embarrassed at the frequency of building collapse within its jurisdiction. The oddly familiar story is no longer acceptable for reasons that include loss of lives, financial ruin, and a dent in the reputation […]

Continuous pilferage of the country’s commonwealth by political officeholders, through humongous allowances and takeaway benefits, has become very worrisome. This indeed constitutes a serious threat to the economic well-being of the ordinary Nigerian. And if the new administration – across national and state levels – would not further lead the economy down the slippery slope […]