Dr Festus Adedayo’s column in the Nigerian Tribune of Sunday, December 20, 2020, titled: ‘Tinubu, Please Run, Run From The SWAGA Gang’ makes interesting and most times amusing reading. Although he adm ...

In Nigeria’s two major parties, the issue of which zone should produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023 is on the front burner. The recent defection of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi Sta ...

Thanks, Professor Soyinka! But I always find it utterly ludicrous when some scoundrel issues an ultimatum on the Igbo to vacate Yorubaland. And by Yorubaland, they mean Lagos. It is laughable because ...

By Chinedu Obike The Endsars protest nationwide appears to have taken a different turn. Recall that the commencement of the protests was met with a groundswell of support by people who felt the youths ...

At the close of work on Friday, I had looked forward to going home early in preparation for what I knew was bound to be a busy weekend on the Abuja social circuit. Going through the City Gateway, via ...

The absurdist movement of the late 1950s was one in which notable playwrights depicted the ‘existentialism’ philosophy of human existence as lacking in meaning or purpose. Their plots were typically c ...

By Obadiah Mailafia Without much fanfare and drums, the Federal Government recently launched the Nigeria Agenda 2050 programme in Abuja. Agenda 2050 is a long-term perspective plan that aims to reposi ...

By Tayo Oke   Let us take a deep breath as we wade through the content of this piece. It is not as controversial as the impulse from the headline would make you think. There is really nothin ...

By Jide Ojo   Nigeria will be celebrating her 60th Independence Anniversary tomorrow (Wednesday), October 1, 2020. Should we roll out the drums, dance and pump champagne? Of course, not! Thi ...

In a move justifying concerns in some quarters that the president of  The Gambia, Adama Barrow might be towing the line of his predecessor Yahya Jammeh who was chased out of office by public and inter ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic induced economic crisis reverberates across mostly commodities based economies in Africa, the world's second largest copper exporter has asked for a delay in paying its intere ...

By Chinedu Obike Ordinarily, the  construction of a rail line should be a source of joy and hailed as an agent of development, but  the  decision of the Federal Government to lay a trac ...

We often tell ourselves a lot of beautiful lies in Nigeria. One of my favourite is the saying: “This is not the dream of our founding fathers.” By that, we often try to claim our founding fathers had ...

Until African countries can tell their own stories and devise locally-grown policies to solve their problems, no one will take them seriously, writes  Tamba François Koundouno.  When the Wor ...

The Minister of Interior and former Governor of Osun State Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has taken the conventional route reminiscent of the era he met his dear wife Iyaafin Sherifat Abidemi Aregbesola  to c ...

Lekan Sote  Don’t allow anyone to fool you with the cock-and-bull tale that capitalism is only a market-driven economy, and its citizens and corporates do not receive subsidy or any form of helpi ...

By Abimbola Adelakun  Last week Wednesday, the Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, announced that he had signed the State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020 that stipulates stringent penalties fo ...

By Lillian Barnard The events of 2020 have opened the world’s eyes to digital transformation as never before. Despite many people not being aware of the term, remote learning, working and socialising ...

By EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA GRADUALLY in every part of Nigeria, things are getting back to normal, as churches and mosques have been opened, schools are reopening and everybody seems to be in the mood for ...

Andrea O'Sullivan Technology is something to resist. Whether it foments antisocial behavior, cultural polarization, or wide-scale labor disruptions, technological change is a frustrating and perennial ...

BY KAYODE KOMOLAFE  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was in Aso Rock yesterday to seek federal government’s support in tackling the menace of floods in his state. According to AbdulRaz ...

Bias, and possibly discrimination, is clear in the harsh repayment terms slapped on African countries compared to the rest of the world. Senegalese president Macky Sall had a bone to pick with credito ...

By PINELOPI KOUJIANOU GOLDBERG The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have curtailed globalization in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago. But, viewed in a b ...

By Lasisi Olagunju By Four years ago, philosophical Adams Oshiomhole invoked Godwin Obaseki’s first name against Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s chi. He said “you have heard from Godwin. Who says God must not win. ...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, I’m aware that many of us have given up on President Muhammadu Buhari changing his modus operandi. I won’t blame anyone for arriving at such decision. After spending o ...

By Kelechi Deca The outcome of the Edo State gubernatorial election which has the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) flag-bearer in the lead has been described as a referendum on the All Progressives C ...

By Shaka Momodu Finally, the fog surrounding the fraudulent motivation behind the failed Gas Supply Processing Agreement (GSPA) between Nigeria and Process & Industrial Development Limited (P& ...

By Olusegun Adeniyi Residents of Zaria Kalakala in Koko-Besse local government, Kebbi State, were still counting their losses from the flood that washed away their farmlands and destroyed their houses ...

By Banji Ojewale NIGERIA’S President Muhammadu Buhari is betting with what he considers his best bet—‘’railway projects…connecting different parts of the country…2nd Niger Bridge… Ajaokuta-Kano (AKK) ...

By Ladesope Ladelokun With the economies of countries across the world still reeling under the debilitating effect of COVID-19 pandemic, it should ordinarily be expected that a responsible government ...

BY Kayode Komolafe In his closing remarks at the ministerial retreat last week, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered members of his administration to “go on the offensive“against “irresponsible and poli ...

By Obadiah Mailafia  You never know the value of freedom until you’ve lost it. The hard-won freedoms that our fathers bravely fought for are being systematically eroded in our country today. ...

By Abimbola Adelakun   When the latest brickbat exchange between pastors and Ifedayo Olarinde (aka Daddy Freeze) started, I simply wanted to watch how this round would play out differently f ...

By Jideofor Adibe Dr Chidi Amuta’s elegantly entitled article ‘2023: Igbos and the Politics of Moral Consequence’ (THISDAY, August 23 2020) and Bishop Kukah’s rejoinder, ‘Of Igbos, 2023 and Politics o ...

Paul Tucker, the author of "Unelected Power" discusses constitutionalist central banking in a world of inert politics Let’s briefly take a step back to the world of 2018–19. Politicians were attacking ...

By Kelechi Deca The new fuel and energy price is having an immediate effect on virtually every aspect of life in the country leading many people to decry the worsening economic situation. Analysts say ...

By Joni Akpederi There’s nothing Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva told Nigerians about the need to finally put end to the decades-long debate over fuel subsidies that has not b ...

By Chido Nwakanma After years of doodling on the prospect, Nigeria on September 2 voted for automation of processes at the ports as the Federal Executive Council approved a 20-year concession for the ...

By Matthew Hassan Kukah Empowered citizens voted for politicians they knew would make them poorer, for liars to clean up politics -Tom Fletcher, The Naked Diplomat. Dr Chidi Amuta takes the cake for ...

By Dr. Chidi Amuta National history has a moral arc. It bends perennially in the direction of justice no matter how long it takes. This truism is my response to the three dominant positions on the des ...

By Tierno Monénembo, Véronique Tadjo and Eugène Ebodé. Yet the manoeuvre is clear, and it consists of tinkering with the constitution to remain in power either by a direct plebiscite through a referen ...

By Chinedu Obike The COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant lockdowns may have disrupted the social and economic life of the global community, but in Nigeria, it took a different turn. It not only wrecke ...

By Patrick Ndegwa There’s been a definite shift around the discussion about the cloud in Africa. Businesses now accept that the future of organising, processing and presenting their data is in the clo ...

By Joseph Ushigiale You may loathe or like former President Olusegun Obasanjo but the one thing you cannot take away from him is his clear vision and direction for a great Nigeria. And so it was that ...

BY OKEY IKECHUKWU (EDIFYING ELUCIDATIONS) The controversy over the revised (and perhaps questionable) 2020 version of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) has taken on a life of its own. “Compl ...

By Zuneid Yousuf The scale of the economic impact – as in every region of the global economy – will depend on the policies put in place to keep economies afloat and trade moving across continents. Tha ...

By Olu Verheijen COVID-19 has exacerbated the fragility of West African countries where population growth continues to outpace economic growth, relegating millions to extreme poverty. Further, pandemi ...

By Olusegun Obasanjo  and Kgalema Motlanthe When we were Presidents of Nigeria and South Africa – the largest economies on the continent – our Administrations dreamt of many things. One in partic ...

By Ebere Onwudiwe Today, the primary point in the case for rotation in Nigeria’s politics is that the presidency should come to the South and that in the South, only the South-East has yet to be zoned ...

Art is esoteric. Music is spiritual. In the heart of spirituality lies the soul of music. Deities crave sounds and gods demand music to unleash their powers. There is no spiritual movement without som ...

By Professor Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka At one time or another, nations and individuals confront crisis points – moments of existential challenge that also open up new possibilities. African countries, a ...

Since 1987, up until now, the Southern part of Kaduna State has been enmeshed in a bloody war of attrition. It has been a ding-dong affair of attacks and reprisal attacks by both sides of the arm ...

The workplace and the education sector can now create new, sustainable models which are accessible, inclusive and qualitative writes Opeoluwa Runsewe Opeoluwa Runsewe  It is no news that the outb ...

By Femi Adesina In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were the Jonathanians, who supported the then incumbent President, Goodluck Jo ...

By Katharina Pistor   What do the Calabrian organized crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta, Hertz, China’s Sichuan Trust, and the US Federal Reserve have in common? They are all deeply entangled in a fina ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.   As chaos and corruption continue to careen out of control in Nigeria, thought of three emergent— and progressively worsening— problems fill me with deep existential ...

By Femi Aribisala Will the Jagaban of Borgu ever learn? Unfortunately for him, he has taken a route without a plan B. The article reproduced here was written in 2015. It predicted the comeuppance of B ...

When President Muhammadu Buhari nominated Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the soon-to-be-vacant position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), many were surprised given the no-love-los ...

By Likun Zhao  Likun Zhao Living under lockdown has fundamentally changed how the world works and interacts. The need to connect to the office and collaborate with colleagues from home, facilitate hom ...

The day breaks in Igbere, a rural community in Abia State, South East, Nigeria. Before the sun rises, the elderly often wrinkled and bent, head out to the farms with nothing but hoes and machetes, jus ...

While addressing middle-level public servants recently, the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo made a courageous statement which has attracted unintended and misleading reactions from some public com ...

Dr. {of letters, meaning should be familiar with basic academic concepts} Kayode Fayemi has opted for uranium enrichment for nuclear energy generation for Nigeria. He's spending scarce resources invit ...

The media has reported severally that Nigerian billionaire and foremost industrialist Aliko Dangote is interested in buying Arsenal. Whilst some saw this as mere media hype and cheap publicity for the ...

There is a Yoruba adage, which says that “no matter how grown a child becomes, he cannot as well have enough rags as his father”. This preludes the over ambitious quest of the Nigeria Deposit Insuranc ...

Traffic snarl following  Oodua Poeples Congress (OPC)-anti Jega’s protest this Morning along Ikorodu Road, Lagos ...

…Insists on card Reader Embattled Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has declared that the commission has produced 67 million permanent voter’s c ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] The 2015 fiscal year does not look promising for many state governments in Nigeria as a good number of them scaled down th ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] Despite the crash in the price of crude oil in the international market, the British government has aroused global interes ...

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[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By John Daniel Obioma Nigeria’s ride to independence on October 1, 1960 was quite a smooth one. The lowering of the Uni ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] “Federal Nigeria has never since her Independence shown the distinctive mark of a united nation. It has been impossible ...

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[stumble][Google][pinterest] The Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Fola Daniel recently urged operators in the industry to improve on their products design and marketing, and further maintain cordial rel ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By John Daniel Obioma The Middle-East region has probably suffered more rivalry and conflict than any other part of the ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Chike Emenike The Holy Bible, The Holy Koran, The Hindu Scriptures, The Sanskrit, The Buddhist Teachings and all oth ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By John Daniel Obioma Perhaps, the most heart-breaking incident that has ever happened to Nigeria since the Boko Haram ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By John Daniel Obioma This piece is not intended to tell the story of the Biafran war or its subjugated people, a story ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Chike B. Emenike Through their wrong perception and hence the mis-application of sovereign power for what is base ov ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By John Daniel Obioma Politics is a game that is characterised by smoke-screens, intrigues and booby-traps. Sometimes, ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Chike B. Emenike One of the visible achievements of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) is the spell of unbroken ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The avoidable tragedy that occurred on March 15, 2014 during the nationwide recruitment test by the Nigerian Immigratio ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] What the states are promising  By Pita Ochai The 2014 fiscal year looks promising for indigenes and residents of ...

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[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Experts canvass for the restoration of consumer credit in Nigeria based on its positive impact on the economy  By ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The 2014 appropriation bill presented by the Federal Government is christened “Budget for Job Creation and Inclusive G ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Stock market records 47% growth in 2013  …As stakeholders hope for better performance in 2014 The Nigerian stock ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Infrastructure is the bedrock of all developments in a country. However, infrastructure in Nigeria is in a sorry state ...