OPINION

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…

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Well, much as causation has been attributed to poverty, religious and ethnic extremism and others, it’s time the Federal Government revisited its security architecture and remodeled countermeasure strategies…

'Nothing we no go hear for Nigeria o'. Even international observers of Nigeria elections are scam. Why should federal government foot the bills of international monitors of elections in Nigeria? And why should such…

 By Festus Adedayo This is what Kurumi's Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and young children were being carried to the river Ose to die,” wrote John…

Since announcement of federal approval of N2Billion for expansion of the Osubi-Warri Airport, I have been inundated with calls from far and near from stakeholders acknowledging that the agitation I have been making for many years has been…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has been called upon to back up their recent acquisition of military hardware with commensurate legal and political instruments by designating attackers of sleepy Middlebelt communities as…