Category: Opinion

Bureau de change. Photo: QZ Having spent billions of dollars and lost no less than N8 trillion to rent seekers who exploit the multiple rates in the foreign exchange (FX) market to rip off the country within three years between 2020 and last year, it is high time the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) reappraised […]

Lekki Deep Seaport The official pageantry displayed at the commissioning by President Muhammadu Buhari of the $1.5 billion Chinese-funded Lekki deep seaport in Lagos is perhaps in salute of the significance of the project; but while the seaport is commendable, there are palpable signs of the inadequate planning also associated with its predecessors in the […]

PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar steps out at the PDP rally in Benin City, flanked by Governor Aminu Tambuwal (left), and Governor Godwin Obaseki (right) By Michael Abimboye Sokoto State Governor and Director General of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, is not leaving anything to chances in his quest to ensure that […]

By Festus Adedayo I am peering at the viral video of the naked young man inside the banking hall as I write this. His manhood dangles like the pendulum of the Grandfather Clock of colonial Nigeria. He is totally naked, even as he shouts that he needs to withdraw cash from the bank. I am […]

By Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu There is an ongoing battle already for the soul of Nigeria. The political landscape of Nigeria is about to be changed after the February 25, 2023 general election. The whole world has attested to the fact that a great wind of change is blowing in the murky waters of Nigerian political […]

By Martins Oloja That polymorphous word, ‘cabal’ has cropped up again. And those deploying it know that there is power in that word, (cabal). They have been manipulating the word to bend minds and win hearts in this land of the gullible. They want to confuse us with the word again. Even members of the […]

By Matthew Ogunmolawa Here we go!!!! Happy new month everyone! I welcome you all to a new month embedded with greater opportunities to correct the present mistakes for a better tomorrow. As you all know, Nigeria decide this month, and Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we […]

By Ayo Oyoze Baje The newspaper headlines are haunting, heart-jerking, painting a horrifying spectacle of the preventable pains of the long-suffering Nigerians, still stewing in the paradox of want -of refined premium motor spirit (pms)- in the midst of plenty natural deposit of crude oil resource. If in doubt, consider some of them: ‘Petrol scarcity […]

Coming in the midst of another spell of fuel crisis heating up the polity, the setting up of a 14-man steering committee to enforce petroleum products supply does not portend any cheer for embattled Nigerians who have to contend with the attendant dislocation and galloping inflation. The government’s move is indeed seen as a race […]

Leah Sharibu By Martins Oloja Doubtless, it is a time to deconstruct the electoral justice system that has firmly entrenched the judiciary as the author and finisher of our elected leaders in the executive arms of government because of abysmal failure of internal democracy here. It should be a time to write on the current […]