Opinions
If you can, however briefly, ignore the debate over whether, in its policymaking, the federal government should see Nigerians as citizens rather than as taxpayers, then, the Tinubu government’s tax reform has simply moved the…
When I read that the Federal Government is pushing for N17.89tn fresh loans to finance the 2026 budget, I wondered what happened to the loans that were contracted and received for the unimplemented 2025 budget. The loans include the oversubscribed…
Nigeria stands to gain immensely if IMILI is properly set up and professionally managed. It will promote the country internationally, support job creation, attract global partnerships and serve as a centre for research, training and policy development across Africa. Already,…
In recent years, Nigerians have become used to a familiar scene. A political leader stops by the roadside or walks to the stage during an event. A man with a disability is called forward. A woman selling items on the…
…Nigeria must embrace emerging technologies without surrendering to their excesses. Digital innovation offers unprecedented opportunities for early warning, rapid response, and public engagement during crises. But without regulation, accountability, and ethical use, the same tools can undermine peace and public…
Baba SB (Samuel Bolarinde), my uncle, was a teacher in Lagos. As a headmaster in a school on Lagos Island, he was an active and practising politician, a loyal Awoist, in Surulere. I remembered vividly that my uncle nearly brought…
It is a cheap challenge I don’t expect you to fail. The simple fact? An article is missing in the clause. This is the indefinite article ‘a’, which should come before ‘meeting’ as indicated below. We have meeting now. (Wrong)…
Nigeria still has a chance — not because of its politics but because of its people. Not because of its institutions but because of its insistence. Not because everything is working but because something refuses to stop working: the spirit…
Several media channels (News Central TV, Daily Trust, Rapid 96.5 FM, Umuahia and Metro 97.7 FM, Lagos) have interviewed me on today’s protest against insecurity organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress. They all wanted to know if the Comrade Joe…
I do not judge or condemn those who have separated, or are presently facing enormous pains in their marriages. I pray for healing for them. But honesty demands this: A pastor’s repeated divorce or a believer’s divorce outside biblical grounds…
Nigeria’s political landscape is getting a little bit scarier as opposition politicians and their parties seem to be losing ground daily to the ruling All Progressives Congress in the deadly game of wits that is called politics. It got even…
Supreme Court of Nigeria Yesterday, 15 December, the Supreme Court of Nigeria struck out the suit filed by 11 governors of states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola…
With his former and even new party in crisis, federal power aligned against him and new political alliances forming, Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, faces the toughest test of his political career. Adeleke was first known as the dancing senator.…
We need to start rebuilding from the bottom all over again. The battle is rural, as I have argued in another intervention. Important as it is to set up forest guards, we need to do much more, starting with reclaiming…
Even after all these years, the memory that sticks out to me most was how I was told of the death of my mother, Mojisola Ajoke adelakun. That moment became definitive for me, almost like the death of Jesus came…
Udom Inoyo, the former ExxonMobil chief, must be a fulfilled man. A few years ago, he came up with an extraordinary idea — that of instituting an award to boost investigative journalism in Akwa Ibom State. It was the first…
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