Opinions

There are derelictions born of error, and there are derelictions born of disdain. President Bola Tinubu’s refusal, or perhaps his inability to set foot in Washington, the nerve center of global power and Nigeria’s greatest trading partner, belongs to the latter. It is not an omission; it is an affront – a betrayal wrapped in […]

In the gilded halls of Nigeria’s anti-corruption architecture, a shameful spectacle now unfolds – a corrosive ritual in which a former governor and ex-Minister is declared a “wanted” man, his name and photograph plastered on public flyers, as though the scales of justice were tipped before the trial even begins. The case of Timipre Sylva; […]

In a world already weary of impulsive interventions and hollow declarations, President Donald Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria represents a grotesque escalation of rhetorical bullying masquerading as moral leadership. On 1 November 2025, Trump declared that unless Abuja cracked down on attacks on Christians, “the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance … and […]

In the theatre of power, nothing corrodes credibility faster than the appearance of confusion. What Nigeria witnessed over the last two weeks; the release, backlash, and hurried withdrawal of President Bola Tinubu’s clemency list, was not simply an administrative misstep. It was a moral debacle, a symptom of a government adrift in its own indecision. […]

When a Commander-in-Chief dismisses his nation’s top military leadership, the country deserves clarity, not cryptic announcements. Yet once again, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has chosen secrecy over statesmanship, opacity over order. In a terse communiqué that offered neither rationale nor reassurance, the President on Friday, October 24 2025, sacked Nigeria’s Service Chiefs – the Chief […]

  In a bold, perhaps audacious, move, Nigeria’s National Assembly has proposed shifting the 2027 presidential and gubernatorial elections from the traditional February–March window back six months to November 2026. The rationale is compelling: by moving the polls earlier, all election petitions can be resolved before the May 29, 2027 handover date, thereby eliminating the […]

By every measure of democratic principle, the recent defections of elected politicians from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are nothing short of a wholesale abandonment of democratic principles and corrosive betrayal of the party platforms under which they were entrusted with popular mandates. The mass exodus Governor Douye […]

There are statistics that wound the conscience of a nation. And then there are those that indict it irrevocably. Nigeria, once lauded as the “Giant of Africa,” now holds a distinction no government should ever claim: the lowest life expectancy in the world. The latest UN World Population Prospects report has handed Nigeria such an […]

Nigeria’s oil sector is a study in paradox, and the Tinubu administration appears content to watch the contradiction unfold. More than a year after the removal of fuel subsidies and the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), the country’s ambition of achieving fuel self-sufficiency remains a mirage. Instead of moving toward energy independence, Nigeria […]

It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the troubling contradictions in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, particularly when it comes to the role of the oil workers’unions. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliates, including the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers […]

Nigeria has become the most expensive airspace in Africa – an open-air bazaar where foreign airlines fleece passengers with impunity, while the government of President Bola Tinubu stands idly by. Nigeria today bleeds in the skies, as foreign airlines have turned the nation into their most lucrative cash cow, charging Nigerians the highest fares in […]

There comes a moment when a nation must either confront its decay or perish beneath it. For Nigeria, that moment has arrived; buried not in the oil wells of the Niger Delta but in the untapped mineral wealth beneath our feet. President Bola Tinubu has built his political legacy on the rhetoric of reform and […]