Category: Opinion

The Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was clearly speaking the minds of majority of Nigerians when it recently called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba and the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof. James Momoh, to immediately reverse the “unlawful, unjust and unreasonable” increase in […]

By Cheta Nwanze Lagosians struggle to buy petrol at a filling station as scarcity bites harder… yesterday Photo: Ayodele Adeniran On 18 January 2015, Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke announced a fuel price reduction that took the retail cost from ₦97 to ₦87 and explained that the price drop was occasioned by the […]

The scramble of aspirants to the Nigerian presidency in 2023 has been as notable as it has also been widely depicted as self-demeaning. But arguably, a striking comment on their less than noble trips abroad is in a newspaper cartoon trending on the social media. It shows the presidential candidates on their knees, arms raised […]

By Chuks Collins When Pastor Paul Osaromen dropped a usual prophetic message to the nation about four years ago in 2019 -that the Igbo of Nigeria should prepare to take over the rein of leadership of Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari, not many were too surprised. Yes, because any discerning mind knows that it was […]

By Reuben Abati To reduce the Central Bank of Nigeria to a spectacle of games within games, between the security and the political establishment is tough to watch. The point must be made that this particular CBN Governor – Godwin Emefiele – is embattled because he made the mistake of showing interest in partisan politics. […]

By Lillian Okenwa When President Muhammadu Buhari granted a state pardon in April 2022 to Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, former governors of Plateau and Taraba states who had been convicted for stealing N1.16 billion and N1.6 billion respectively from their state treasuries while they were in office between 1999 and 2007, rights lawyer and […]

With the year 2023 still looked upon as ‘new’ amid global unrest that lingers from last year, it is worthwhile for the world as a whole to explore ways and means of reversing the misfortune of 2022. Last year, the world witnessed epoch-making events. They include the death of important persons and the eruption of […]

By Luke Onyekakeyah A staff member of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) marks the thumb of a voter at a polling unit in Lagos on February 23, 2019. Photo: Stefan Heunis / AFP Looking at the way things are going on in the run up to the 2023 general elections, it is abundantly clear […]

By Martins Oloja There is a sense in which one can run away with some perception that government is fully aware of what ‘The Guardian’ contextually reported yesterday that ahead of the forthcoming general election, many Nigerians have been thrown into fear following the spate of kidnapping in the country between Thursday night and Friday […]