OPINION

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Nigeria is at a critical juncture; and in such a context, it is “cometh the moment, cometh the man”. For President Bola Tinubu, this adversity should be turned into a historic advantage which should propel…

By Festus Adedayo Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, William Butler Yeats, aptly put it in his famous The Second Coming. When things fall apart, wrote Yeats, not only can’t the centre hold,…

Chief Johnson Ukueku, foremost Urhobo pharmacist and 1st Republic parliamentarian was an outstanding patriot who believed in and practice harmonious coexistence between Urhobo and neighboring tribes. A rejoinder he published on…

I don't blame the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC. I blame the tribalistic Goodluck Jonathan and Ijaw Elders under INC. If not for the untimely death of President Musa Yar'Adua which gave Goodluck Jonathan the space to play ethnic card…

The Petroleum Industrial Act (PIA) is recipe for disaster if not amended to make state and local governments nominal observers, and not the active participants as being made Secretary to the PIA board as the law accords them. …

Nigerian political officeholders like to innovate nonsense. What tactless youthful exuberance prompted the recent announcement by the Minister of Youth Development, Dr Jemila Ibrahim, on plans to establish a national youth development bank?…

By Shehu Bashir Esq I am happy to observe that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has started to take control and do the needful to rein in the criminals and saboteurs and forex speculators. I am particularly happy to note that…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE As an avowed Federalist, Nigerians expected Tinubu to have sent a Constitution Amendment Bill to the National Assembly with a view to tinkering with dozens of items on the Exclusive List in favour of the…

By Festus Adedayo So at plenary in the senate last week, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, rushed naked out of the bathtub. He raised his hand up. In the presidency’s search for scapegoat, Akpabio suddenly became Archimedes.…

By Festus Adedayo Late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in his early musical ensemble days as Africa ‘70, recalibrated a folklore that told the story of food shortage and hunger. The folklore, which Fela entitled…