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Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us 
 but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Obasanjo and the face of insolence

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent discourteous behaviour against some of the traditional rulers in Iseyin, Oyo State, has drawn an angry tirade from the...

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63

The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf containing fictional works. The latter-day patriots of Nigeria can cry...

Repositioning Nigeria For A Debt-Free Africa

Nigeria’s ballooning debt burden remains one of the major challenges the new government is facing. The Debt Management Office of Nigeria disclosed recently that...

NADECO, Where Are You? (2)

Wait a minute, how many of the original NADECO members are still alive and what’s their current attitudinal disposition and worldview to the democracy...

Nigeria’s Looming Crisis: Need for a Swift Resolution

As Nigeria stands on the precipice of yet another potential crisis, there is an urgent and impassioned plea for a swift and decisive resolution...

Prospects Of Fighting Poverty In Nigeria

As you already know, the fight against poverty remains one of our society's most pressing challenges today, particularly in regions where a substantial portion...

NADECO, where are you? (1)

Last week, I had the honour of visiting Dr. Amos Akingba, a chieftain of Afenifere and National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), in his Ode-Irele, Ondo...

Death of Abuja

On the morning of 25th of February, 2023 when the presidential election was to take place, I was at a polling unit as an...

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2012 Budget: fiscal prudence, subsidy removal and other issues

Allocating 72% of the budget to recurrent expenditure seems to me very outrageous, and a move away from the government mantra of fiscal prudence. Though, as one analyst observes, it is not easy to cut recurrent expenditure in one fell swoop...

April Elections will hold – El Rufai at UN Press Conference

The Minister of the Federal Capital, Nasir el-Rufai and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Aminu Bashir Wali, addressed the press at the United Nations as part of the ongoing Federal Government's new initiative to address the negative media coverage and international pressure on Obasanjo’s administration to conduct a free and fair election next month...

First, Kill The Lawyers

Nigeria's problems are multifaceted, the fact that we have an educated class that cannot discern right from wrong is disheartening and I don't see any way forward when the so called elite in our society are not capable of critical thinking...

Our Success Tomorrow, Our Imminent Action Today

Some of us have seen the mountaintop, but how many of our brothers and sisters have? Some have faintly glimpsed the future through dreams and euphoric indulgence, but this has remained a curse rather than a blessing...

For Molara Wood
Listen, The Book, The Book Is Waving Us A Long Goodbye…

Something interesting happened to me this year. I found myself searching the Internet, looking for, and acquiring several books by authors that nurtured me in my youth growing up in Nigeria...

The Gun Revolution In Nigeria

What Nigeria needs now is a true revolution a la Phillipines or Romania which would terminate the circus political show and send those responsible for our misery to the world beyond...

The Nigerian Bar Association: Rediscovering The Rule of Law & Due Process?

Are we witnessing a bastardization of the rule of law and due process in Nigeria? Are these high ideals of law and fine legal concepts being corrupted? All for shortsighted benefits...

Osun election: If you ask me


By Maxwell Ajibola ​Walk down the bustling streets of Osogbo,...

Barack Obama: Irrational Exuberance, Irrational Optimism

For Black Africa, what they had hoped and prayed for in their leaders seems abundant in Barack Obama. For several years, they have longed and prayed for such a man to lead them to the mountain top...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…

Western imperialists headed by the United States want the devil to come back and complete his evil work and experiment on Nigeria and Nigerians. The Americans who have always claimed to be our friends could not find a worthy candidate or Nigerian in a country of 150 million to lead Nigeria in 2011 except Babangida...