Category: Opinion

By Eze Onyekpere The campaign for political offices towards the 2023 general elections provides Nigerians with an opportunity for deep and sober reflection. Yes, to sit back and think through our experience with leadership, especially since the return to civil rule in 1999. Civil rule has provided us with the opportunity to go to the […]

The news that more that hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists will be put on trial very soon, as disclosed by the Nigerian Army is welcome news. The Theatre Commander, North-East Joint Operations (OPHK), Maj. General Christopher Musa reportedly said that 886 ‘hardened’ fighters of the extremist Islamic sect will be transferred to Giwa Project for […]

By Martins Oloja I would like to celebrate the other birthday of our capital, Abuja with a call on the next administration to “bring back our capital” some cynics are bound to call their capital, at this time. It isn’t difficult to de-market Abuja at this time as the 20th capital of the North. And […]

An apparent attempt by Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire to play down the import and repercussions of the mass flight of Nigerian medical doctors to foreign countries is less than pragmatic, and certainly inappropriate as a measure of addressing a very grave situation. While it is true that migration of medical doctors, or indeed […]

By Dan Agbese Some political promises are difficult to keep. The nature of politics induces political leaders to make promises they know they can only keep with soundbites and indifferent public applause. You are not about to hear it from me that President Muhammadu Buhari has clearly failed in one of his core promises dear […]

In drumming support for the simmering 2023 population and housing census in Nigeria, some federal commissioners of the National Population Commission (NPC) recently said that Nigeria’s population remains its greatest asset in national development. While the Federal Commissioner for Katsina State, Bala Banye made the declaration in Katsina; the Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti State in […]

ASUU members during their meeting with Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila The decision of the Federal Government to pay pro-rated or ‘half salary’ in October to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), soon after they called off their eight-month strike, is embarrassing and certainly inappropriate for an embattled government seeking peace; and for teachers who […]

Buhari and some of the governors A federal cabinet member’s recent accusations that state governors are primarily responsible for the excruciating poverty in the country and their push-back highlight the woeful incompetence of Nigeria’s leaders. Clement Agba, the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, rebuked the governors for neglecting the rural areas and […]

Proposal by former President Goodluck Jonathan suggesting constitutional roles for deputy governors of states is not ill-informed by any standard coming from a man who has seen it all, first as a deputy governor and later as a vice president. Nigeria’s democracy of the past 23 years has thrown up a lot of frictions between […]

Failure of the eligible customer policy of the power sector to impact positively on supply and usage in the country, five years after it was introduced, is not only frustrating, it has emphatically underscored the failure of privatization of the sector. The development should be worrying to the federal government, and to Nigerians generally, given […]