Opinions

Femi Otedola has gifted the world his memoir, Making It Big: Lessons from a life in Business. A generous gesture, indeed because nothing says “self-made” like a billionaire explaining how he went from his father’s printing press to a government-blessed oil monopoly while insisting it was all hard work. In point of fact though, the […]

There was a delusion that the privatization of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalization of the telecommunications industry. What we are now witnessing is the shattering of that illusion, with the critical failure of the electricity sector. The entire framework was […]

The United States has long positioned itself as the world’s champion of liberty, democracy, and free speech; and never tires of lecturing the world about censorship and human rights. Yet, from the very halls of its embassy in Abuja, the US government unveiled a policy that strikes at the very heart of those values; imposing […]

Nigeria is sitting on a family time bomb; and DNA tests have lit the fuse. The latest Smart DNA report just dropped, and it’s a nightmare that should terrify every parent, policymaker, and faith leader in this country. One in four men who submitted to DNA paternity testing between July 2024 and June 2025 discovered […]

In the annals of Nigeria’s long and shameful betrayals of liberty, the withholding of the – NYSC discharge certificate of Ushie Rita Uguamaye – known to millions by her social media name as “Raye” will certainly stand out as a petty, vindictive stain on the conscience of this Republic. This is not discipline. This is […]

  When the rule of law bows before celebrity, the skies grow dark. Last week, Chief Wasiu Ayinde Marshall aka Kwam1, turned Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport into his personal stage, blocking a ValueJet aircraft in conduct tantamount to attempted hijacking. For this, Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo’s grand solution was to place him on a […]

There comes a moment in the life of every failing empire when it begins to mistake criticism for treason, and opposition for madness. The All-Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have reached that point; and its latest public meltdown proves it. In its unprovoked tirade against former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai and the African Democratic Congress […]

  Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly petty act of despotic brigandage, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), that perennial errand boy of executive overreach and lawlessness, has banned Eedris Abdulkareem’s latest […]

  There is no eloquence left for this shame. Only rage. Cold, righteous rage. Nigeria, the self-proclaimed “Giant of Africa,” has become a tomb of innocence. A nation where childhood is buried beneath the rubble of government apathy, where futures are starved in daylight, and where the state – bloated with rhetoric and corruption – […]

There is a stench rising from Nigeria’s political elite, and it is the rancid odor of cowardice masquerading as patriotism. Their unrelenting obsession with British Conservative Leader, Kemi Badenoch has descended into full-blown hysteria, a grotesque spectacle that reveals far more about them than it ever could about her. This is not patriotism. This is […]

Nigeria’s senior female soccer team, the Super Falcons are the Queens of Africa given their superlative, dominant and creative performance, their resilience, and agility at the just concluded Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Morocco, July 5 – 26. Since the inception of the tournament in […]

Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly petty act of despotic brigandage, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), that perennial errand boy of executive overreach and lawlessness, has banned Eedris Abdulkareem’s latest protest […]