Category: Opinion

With just four weeks left to quit office, President Muhammadu Buhari and administration officials are taking decisions and inking deals that are potential booby traps for their successors. Among these are a pay rise, fresh contracts and procurement deals, borrowings and unresolved reforms that will undoubtedly add to the already humongous challenges that await the […]

By Niran Adedokun Speaking about his career and the quantum of seriousness people attach to him, English comedic actor Charles Spencer Chaplin once compared himself to a politician. Hear him: “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” […]

By Eric Teniola Of all appointments to be made by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none will define his presidency more than the appointment of the minister of Petroleum. There are ministers and there are ministers but the minister of Petroleum in this country is in a class of his own. He or she […]

Need anyone be surprised that, out of 140 countries, Nigeria was ranked the 95th happiest nation in the world and the sixth in Africa with 4.981 points, according to the latest edition of the World Happiness Report? Ordinarily, a report of this nature may seem trivial because of its perceived distance from hardcore political and […]

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo with Vice-President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris in the White House To say that Africa is in the middle of another scramble by the world super powers is an understatement; particularly by the great powers, namely, China, Russia, and the United States. The recent flurry of diplomatic activities […]

By George Adimike In this era, as the world grapples with scapegoating the digital citizens, this caveat seems necessary and compelling. All internet users, starting from the digital natives (the iGeneration) to the digital pioneers (Millennials or Generation Y) to the digital migrants (Generation X), should bear in mind that the internet neither forgives nor […]

President-Elect Bola Tinubu By Martins Oloja This question has become inevitable because of the inexplicable failure of the presidency to inaugurate the most important institution of governance the Public Procurement Act 2007 Creates for the purpose of protecting public fund by fighting corruption in the public sector. This presidential fear of Public Procurement Council is […]

By Dan Agbese Here is belated news. The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaban of Borgu, has returned home from France. He stepped back into the cauldron of controversies. But that is Nigerian politics 102. Tinubu and the Vice-president-elect, Kashima Shettima, have now moved into Defence House and thus put their feet in the door of […]

Former US president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Kelly / Pool / AFP) The arrest and arraignment of the immediate past president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to face criminal charges is seldom heard of in developing countries […]

A draconian bill being prepared by the House of Representatives seeking to prevent newly qualified Nigerian doctors from seeking employment abroad immediately after graduation is the wrong response by unimaginative lawmakers to a national crisis. Responding belatedly to the long-running exodus of medical doctors and other health professionals seeking greener pastures, legislators have rammed the […]