Category: Opinion

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Dear Mr. Tinubu, there are many very well-placed people around me who often express confidence in your ability to rescue Nigeria from the Buhari catastrophe. I will technically identify two of them without a mention of their names. Let me start with a certain former student of mine. In 2015 just before […]

President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu By Tunji Olaopa The auspicious event was the public presentation of my book, The Unending Quest for Reform: An Intellectual Memoir. And then, it was not surprising that the entire event erupted into an agitated atmosphere for a reassessment of the Nigerian predicament. A significant cross-section of stakeholders in the Nigerian project […]

This year’s Ramadan, the ninth month of lunar calendar during which it is obligatory for the Muslim faithful globally to fast, has reached its zenith. Thus, Nigerians join the rest of the Muslim world to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitri marking the end of one month-long spiritual engagement regarded as the period of self-sacrifice and self-denial with the […]

With just barely six weeks to the expiration of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration’s officials have been claiming successes in governance over the past eight years, prompting independent assessment. At home and abroad (but mostly abroad), Buhari has been reiterating his “achievements,” insisting that Nigerians would appreciate him favourably after his exit. […]

By Ronke Bello Seventeen years ago, during a Presidential forum on education reform, it was asserted by one of the resource persons that “by 2020, Nigeria may have a significant population of highly skilled trained criminals if nothing is done today”. This damning verdict stemmed from the fact that out of twenty million pupils who […]

Chibok Girls Photo: AFP By James Christoff, Matias Schmale and Cristian Munduate The abduction of 276 female students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014 brought the plight of children in Northeast Nigeria to the forefront of international attention. The Chibok girls became a symbol of the conflict’s devastating impact […]

Kidnap victims By Odita Sunday, Abuja Nigerians have again been thrown into fear following the resurgence of kidnapping in parts of the country following the lifting of the ban on old naira notes. During the financial squeeze, cases of banditry and kidnapping went down. But that has since changed since the Central Bank of Nigeria […]

The guilty verdicts pronounced by Justice Jeremy Johnson at Bailey Court in London recently on former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu, and their medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, offer serious lessons for all Nigerians. Given the fact of the average Nigerian mentality that everything is always possible, what happened to […]

By Charles Onunaiju Despite how passion and emotion have run high and even continued to run on the outcome of the presidential elections held on February 25, the mathematics and politics of why the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively including others lost are evidently palpable. Even […]

By Abraham Adegoke When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) was established in 2010, its mission was to promote the development and utilisation of in-country capacities for Nigeria’s industrialisation by effectively implementing the Nigerian Content Act. While the board has, over the years, made giant strides towards actualising this goal with several policies […]