#EndBadGovernance protesters in Ibadan, Oyo State For, in truth, from Bangladesh to Kenya, the relevant authorities have offered a stark lesson in how not to respond to popular angst — curfews, shoot-to-kill policing, and disrupting the internet to prevent people…

…despite the intense attraction to align with this dominant anti-collective governance, my encounter with the government convinced me that collective governance is more pragmatic and realistic because governments alone are always insufficient. They need non-state actors (i.e., you and I)…

Fireballs that had stirred up in Lagos and other major Nigerian cities, over the escalating cost of living since President Bola Tinubu assumed office, magnified into a conflagration with a nationwide protest that started last Thursday. The mass action, which…

Central banks maintain economic growth and price stability by controlling inflation. If inflation rises, central banks tighten monetary policy by increasing interest rates or through other hawkish policies. If inflation falls and economic output declines, central banks lower interest rates…

The Sunday address of President Bola Tinubu to the nation regarding the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest has been politicised by the gladiators. If Tinubu had been less dramatic on his inauguration day and quietly allowed fuel subsidy to fade as was…

In Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me, the narrative revolves around Akin and Yejide, a young Yoruba couple grappling with the challenges of childbirth and navigating their careers and emotional turmoil within their relationship. This story provides a poignant lens through…

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria is one organisation that I have a significant relationship with, a relationship that spans many years. It is one organisation I count as a partner in the struggle to transform the public…

Ours is a nation full of surprises and I was surprised by a court case where some tried to prevent the Federal Government from securitising the N22.7 trillion ‘Ways and Means’ loans received from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Granted,…

The politicians should be feeling the heat now. But it is a different heat from the one the masses feel. The anticipation of where the pendulum will rest in the course of the hunger protest is enough apprehension for anyone…

#EndBadGovernance: How police attacked peaceful protesters in Abuja The time is long overdue, surely, to abandon, permanently, the anachronistic resort to lethal means by the security agencies of governance. No nation is so underdeveloped, materially impoverished, or simply internally insecure…

There is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is a synonym for an unrefined and unsophisticated girl. Each time M̀gbekē’s farmer colleagues visited her in the farm, they saw haphazardly tilled land and a female farmer lazily fondling…

President Bola Tinubu The president, in his address did not hide his commendation on the effort made towards revamping the nation’s oil sector since inception of his administration. He affirmed that the nation’s once declining oil and gas industry was…

There is no quick fix for a nation on its knees. It starts from resetting the foundation of justice, accountability, fairness, and equity. Interestingly, these were the core values that formed the foundation for the new Germany that emerged after…

President Tinubu There are many pathways that lead to the marketplace of political engineering. The president should choose the less travelled one of statesmanship in which opponents are treated as fellow shareholders in the Nigerian commonwealth. I’m tired of Nigerian…

The popularity of a church is an eloquent testimony of failure and not success. They contradict the counsel of the Lord without batting their eyelids. They plant church parishes like supermarkets on every street corner. They build cathedrals and church…