Opinions

In post-Brexit Britain, people are now discussing what it means to be British. As Nigerians enter the New Year, now is a most auspicious time to identify those values that define us as a people, and that would help us build a stronger nation. Little surprise Nigerians are suddenly engaged in soul-searching and a journey […]

The announcement by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), that Nigerians will witness another hike in electricity tariffs, without any corresponding improvement in power supply to justify such an increase, is outright provocation and unfair to Nigerians who are being compelled to pay more for darkness. A revised Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) signed last […]

The graphic images of concerned, hurting and traumatized parents being tear-gassed on the streets ofKankara, Katsina State the other day, is a dramatic advertisement of President Muhammadu Buhari’scallous insensitivity, incompetence and failure to live up to his responsibility to protect the lives andwelfare of the Nigerian people. Feelings were raw on the streets and the […]

If yesterday’s decision by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to dissolve all state, zonal and national structures; and the on-going crisis in the ruling party has taught any lessons, it is that, in theory and practice, democracy is no vanity. You either believe in democracy and practice it; or […]

As the year 2020 draws to a close and reflections on the precarious security situation in the nation must of necessity boggle the mind, the recent attack on Zabarmari, Jere LGA, some 20km from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, by Boko Haram terrorists was evidence, if any were needed that the security situation is intractable […]

The state of insecurity in which Nigeria now reels is too ferocious to be denied. The crisis may have pre-dated the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari; he may be doing his best, and the military is not without some success in their fight against Islamist insurgents in the war-ravaged northeast, but the intensity of the […]

Reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may soon suspend its strike should come as a relief for the nation. Briefing journalists after an eight-hour meeting between ASUU and federal government representatives ended on an amicable note, Labor and Employment Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige, explained that several issues were discussed, including salary shortfall, […]

The grouse of critics of the Zamfara gold misadventure, and rightly so, is that since Nigeria is a federation, its revenue allocation formula must be consistent with the principle of federalism as it obtains in other federal systems such as America, Canada, Australia and Switzerland. This was relatively so under the 1960 Constitution, for which […]

Despite the preachments of successive northern politicians, including President Muhammadu Buhari about the imperative of a united Nigeria for national development, it is an insulting and shameful paradox, and a gratuitous assault on the collective intelligence and sensibilities of Nigerians, if the plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to purchase gold worth N5 […]

Things are falling apart in Nigeria and in the minds of a beleaguered citizenry; the president is making things even worse. That traditional rulers, youth organizations, elected Governors, ministers and other stakeholders from the South-south geopolitical zone have demanded an unreserved apology from the presidency for abruptly cancelling a crucial stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt, […]

For those who say Nigeria is a country where wonders shall never end, the callous and sycophantic campaign posters flooding cities across the nation, featuring potential candidates in hypothetical 2023 presidential election matchups is a shameful phenomenon that graphically retells the odious rat race, ideological vacuity and mundane craving that typify Nigeria’s political elite. Lacking […]

The recent clampdown on #EndSARS protesters by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is an ignominious and reprehensible act of violence against social and political activism and, by extension democracy. It is shameful, embarrassing and unacceptable that in a supposedly democratic government, demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest against police brutality, could be […]