Opinions

If the allegations now before the Nigerian public are even remotely true, then President Bola Tinubu has crossed a constitutional rubicon from aggressive governance into outright lawlessness; presiding over one of the gravest assaults on Nigeria’s constitutional order since the return to civil rule. The charge is not trivial. It is not procedural nitpicking. It […]

Nigeria is a country deeply rooted in tradition, culture and communal life. One enduring feature of our national life is the annual movement of people from urban centres back to their ancestral homes and villages during festive periods, particularly Christmas and the New Year. This seasonal migration is more than leisure travel; it is a […]

“Good wine”, the time-honoured saying goes, “needs no bush”. Translation: a good product needs no advertisement.   When Aliko Dangote began building his refinery in 2016, he must have envisioned that his refinery, one of the biggest in the world, would not only operate seamlessly, given the lacuna it filled, it would offer Nigerians jobs […]

Africa’s coup season, like a bad television series, refuses to end. Just when the continent’s self-appointed custodians of constitutional order were settling into their favorite ritual – condemnations in bold type, sanctions in italics – a foiled putsch in Benin on December 7th rudely interrupted proceedings. Soldiers briefly seized a television station, declared democracy suspended, […]

The landscape of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is in the throes of its most profound transformation in decades, a change driven by legislative reform but supercharged by a seismic market force. The long-awaited Petroleum Industry Act, PIA of 2021 promised a new era, establishing clear regulatory bodies like the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum […]

President Bola Tinubu’s decision to accept the resignations of the heads of Nigeria’s petroleum regulators in the heat of a public clash with Aliko Dangote marks a dispiriting moment for Nigerian governance, that may yet prove to be one of the most consequential, and troubling; signals of his presidency. The forced exits of the heads […]

Nigeria is short of policemen, short of patience and short of trust. What it is not short of, it turns out, is armed escorts for the President’s son. When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s tireless moral witness stepped out of a Lagos hotel to find a small infantry unit bristling with rifles, he assumed he had wandered […]

  The declaration last Friday by Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, that the peace deal entered into with bandits has yielded positive results in councils that were affected by insecurity, is a damning surrender to criminality; a confession of state failure, and an open declaration that the Nigerian government no longer believes in justice, deterrence, […]

The recent call by Senator Francis Fadahunsi, representing Osun East, to replace Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as National Security Adviser (NSA) with a retired military officer is not merely misguided; it is intellectually bankrupt, democratically corrosive, and strategically dangerous. It reeks of nostalgia for a militarized past that has already failed Nigeria, and it betrays a […]

There are missteps a nation can laugh off, and there are others that expose something far more troubling; a growing indifference to the sanctity of our institutions. What happened at the opening ceremony of the 2025 All Nigeria Judges Conference in Abuja belongs firmly in the latter category. And it is the Tinubu administration that […]

  Nearly thirty months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu abruptly recalled Nigeria’s ambassadors in September 2023; leaving 109 foreign missions adrift, leaderless, and reputationally stranded, the long-awaited list of replacements has finally arrived. And it is, in every sense, a national embarrassment and international disgrace. At a moment when Nigeria’s global image is battered by […]

No one should be surprised at the level of controversy that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambassadorial list of 35 nominees, whose names have been sent to the Senate for confirmation has generated in Nigeria. Former Ambassadors were recalled in September 2023, and now it has taken two years and two months for the government to […]