Opinions

It’s funny really about the things that bother us as a people. To the fact that we were once the happiest people; add that to, the fact we are equally in the top tier of the most religious people on earth, we also have a high level of endurance and persistence, perseverance and patience. I […]

With the video released last Sunday purportedly by Boko Haram, showing some of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok, who are still alive, Nigeria must keep the resolve to bring the girls home resolute. Since relatives have identified some of the abducted girls in the video, the government must, however, be cautious with the next step […]

Two years after Nigeria rebased its GDP to claim the top spot as Africa’s biggest economy, the report last week, that South Africa has regained the title, is one more evidence; if at all another was needed, that the current APC administration was mismanaging the Nigerian economy. This speaks directly to the failure of Nigeria’s […]

The arrest and detention of Abubakar Sidiq Usman, a blogger and citizen journalist by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged “cyber stalking related offences” is an egregious attack on press freedom that emblemizes impunity and advertised in spectacular fashion, abuse of office at its worst by EFCC acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu. At […]

The monthly revenue allocation to the three tiers of government for the month of June justifies the arduous cleansing work the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari has undertaken since it came on stream on May 29, 2015. The cash-starved tiers of Nigerian government were still smarting and bleeding profusely from a combination of scorching corrupt […]

Do you know Ann LePage? She’s the (third) wife of Paul LePage, the right-wing weirdo, out-of-control and ever controversial governor of Maine, a man with an inspiring story of growing up on the streets after running away from an abusive step-dad at the age of 11 and who in spite of all odds went on […]

These are hard times for most Nigerians.  A little over a year ago, Nigerians trooped out in their millions to vote for change and change they got.  The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaigned on the “change” mantra and from the results of last year’s elections, the generality of Nigerians seemed to have bought into it.  […]

The obnoxious directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), authorizing banks and forex dealers to sell dollars to intending Hajj pilgrims at a concessionary exchange rate of N197 per dollar far below the prevailing market rate speaks directly to the absurdity of introducing a religious paradigm into the body politic. It is an affront […]

If there was any hope that Donald Trump would change tactics and be more restrained after winning the Republican party Presidential nomination for the November 8 US election, that hope is now lost.  The fellow has remained aggressive, incorrigibly brash and completely negative. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has asked: “Is Donald Trump just plain […]

If there was ever any doubt that greed and gluttony rules Nigeria, nothing underscores more the culture of insensitivity and impunity than the scandalous profligacy and atrocious remuneration and perks enjoyed by past and serving political office holders. It is an unbelievable shame that President Buhari can be fighting corruption, while legislators, governors and deputy […]

How has Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former Professor of Law at the University of Lagos fared as an intellectual in politics? The role of intellectuals in politics is often a controversial one.  Do intellectuals do well in politics or do they just see the public realm as an extension […]

As the Speaker of the University of Lagos Students Union Government between 1993 and 1994, at a time student unionism had not been castrated and rendered an impotent buffoon it has become today, I know a bit of budget presentation and its ratification process by parliament and subsequent signing into law by the President.  Yes, […]