Category: Opinion

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi It is no longer news that some of the first-term governors-elect will face many months of unpaid workers’ salaries and mounting pension liabilities, as well as agitation for the implementation of the nationally agreed minimum wage, rising inflation, escalating prices of goods and services, and dwindling purchasing power. These incoming governors, […]

By Mobolaji Sanusi From being a kingmaker, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu has finally become a king metaphorically for clinching the highest political position in the country. From democratically dethroning a President to installing another president in 2015 and now becoming a president-elect, against all odds, in 2023, Tinubu has become a man of destiny, of historical […]

By Dare Babarinsa Lt. General Donaldson Oladipo Diya was a substantial personage in contemporary Nigerian history. When he died at 78 on Sunday, March 26, 2023, what most people remember was his last act of defiance before the military tribunal that sentenced him to death in 1998. “This is a setup,” he shouted with handcuffs […]

By David Olusoga Fayemi The Diya name is made popular in Nigeria by a young handsome boy born some 79 years ago to a family that hails from a small but historic town of Odogbolu in Ogun State with the name Donaldson Oladipupo. The parents, especially the father must have known that the young man was […]

The Federal Government’s plans to unveil a carbon tax policy and budgetary system for Nigeria in accordance with the provisions of the Climate Change Act 2021, smirks of hypocrisy and lack of commitment to the ideals of climate change, except for areas where it can make some quick cash. With the exception of gas flaring, […]

As President Muhammadu Buhari approaches the end of his tenure, he as well as the incoming president cannot afford to disregard reports from credible international agencies that Nigeria faces existential threats to its survival from the growing poverty of the people. Locally, the indices and reflections of poverty are glaring, particularly in the aftermath of […]

By Gbenga Salau In the build up to the 2023 general elections, several opinion polls were conducted to give insight into the likely outcome of the elections, especially the February 25, 2023 presidential elections. A list of the organisations that conducted the opinion polls includes the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC), Political Africa Initiative (POLAF), […]

By Dan Agbese This is the interregnum, the period between an out-going administration and its in-coming successor when there is usually a feeling of both hollowness and animated anticipation. It is not an idle period. This is the period during which we listen keenly to every word that falls from the mouth of the President-elect. […]

If Nigeria’s experience of devastation caused by flooding last year is anything to go by, the recent warning by the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed, about projected severe flooding this year should not be toyed with. The warning, which arose from predictions from relevant agencies, should be taken as the […]

By Atah Pine I congratulate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on breasting the tape of the presidential poll as the gold medalist. It was such a laborious, witty and windy walk to Aso Rock, the rock of power and abode of the powerful. That he navigated unscratched through the wreckage of primordial primitive political traps, scheming and […]