Opinions

There is no doubt that President Buhari’s resolve not to devalue the naira is the correct position to take in Nigeria’s circumstance. But with inflation at over 15% and rising; with manufacturers experiencing higher cost of imported raw materials; with interest rates rising as CBN battles inflation, further raising credit cost to businesses and households, […]

The recent reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, by President Muhammadu Buhari is another gross abuse of the powers of the president and flagrant disregard for our laws, the same laws which Buhari swore to uphold at his inauguration. With the benefit of insight, this latest naked display of executive […]

The Chinese are said to use two brush strokes to write the word, ‘crisis’. It is said that for them one brush stroke stands for danger while the other stands for opportunity. The critical question here is: what opportunity does the current economic crisis present to the country? I am using the virtual bankruptcy of […]

The alarm raised by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other humanitarian agencies that as many as 52% of Nigerian children are stunted, wasted and malnourished; and one in five children will die in northeastern Nigeria is a tragedy that should tug at the conscience of the nation and must be addressed immediately. If […]

It might have been a case of mistaken identity as the Presidency claims, but now that the shouting match seems to have abated a bit, it is pertinent to point out that the public spat between First Lady, Aisha Buhari and Ekiti governor, Ayo Fayose over the former’s alleged involvement in money-laundering activities, points to […]

If nothing else, the ongoing trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu over charges of criminal conspiracy and alleged forgery of the Nigerian Senate Standing Rules, 2015, speaks directly to the fouled political atmosphere in the country, tainted by its origins in intrigues and clash of ambitions. Both Saraki […]

The sensational report, the other day, that, three Nigerian lawmakers engaged in sexual misconduct while participating in a leadership exchange program in the USA is, true or not, most embarrassing to their person, the institution of the National Assembly and the entire country. In a naming and shaming letter sent to House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, […]

With the gale of retrenchment sweeping through the private sector, amid falling oil prices that has reduced allocations from the Federation Account by 60%, many states can no longer meet their recurrent expenditures, including salary obligations to workers. The unacceptable anomaly has turned states into beggars. The states have received two bailouts from the federal […]

There has been no shortage of controversy and hair-raising incidents from the 8th National Assembly of Nigeria, but nothing breaks the heart more than the name-them-shame-them letter that has been sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the US Ambassador in which he accused three Nigerian lawmakers of sexual misconduct during an April […]

Nigerian President Muhummadu Buhari writes of building an economic bridge to Nigeria’s future (“The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,” op-ed, June 14). It’s hard to see how his administration’s inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach will achieve this. Mr. Buhari notes that building trust is a priority for Nigeria. But an anticorruption drive that is […]

The dramatic turn of events in Osun State, the other day, when students at Baptist High School, Adeeke, Iwo, showed up in school in a motley of religious attire, is a dangerous recipe for violence and political instability, if it is not immediately contained. Apart from being a test of the egalitarian temperament of Governor […]

Twenty-three years ago, on June 12, 1993, the military junta in a streak of authoritarian madness cancelled a presidential election adjudged to have been the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria. It remains a mystery to Nigerians why the milestone election, which the late philanthropist and business mogul, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO), […]