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By REUBEN ABATI Things went out of hand very quickly with the emerging Nigerian “revolution” when on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos, and started shootin ...

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BY GENERAL ADEYINKA ADEBAYO My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you ...

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BY BOLA TINUBU I heavily grieve for those who have lost their lives or been injured during the period of these protests. My deepest sympathies go to their families and loved ones for none should have ...

By Fola Ojo   Right now, in Nigeria, the nation is roiling, boiling, and burning. Nigerian youths have taken over many major streets especially in Lagos, the commercial capital of the country. In thei ...

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By Simon-Kolawole How can a peaceful protest end up with killing and maiming, burning and looting in a matter of days? For those of us who have seen plenty “peaceful” protests in our lives, it is not ...

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By FAROOQ KPEROGI On October 20, I couldn’t sleep in my base here in the United States because I was glued to social media monitoring livestreams of the agonizing state-authorized mass massacres of pe ...

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By Tanya Gandhi In Nigeria, people are still living the lifestyle they did when COVID-19 was at its peak and this means the entertainment sector may not be seeing a recovery soon Nigeria saw a 2-point ...

By Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi Nothing lasts for ever! Bola Ahmed Tinubu began his political career with an understanding that reflects the popular Yoruba saying: "eniyan bo ni lara ju aso lo," meaning: "Pe ...

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi Something is seemingly romantic about the date. It is so seducing that you can hardly forget it – 20-10-2020 – a Tuesday. Yet, it was a black Tuesday. A day of death! That was the ...

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By Olusegun Adeniyi ‘Soro soke, ki o se idajo ododo, ba talaka ati alaini gba eto won’ (Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy)—Proverbs 31: 9 When the army announced last ...

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By Femi Falana In my first year at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) I took part in the “Ali Must Go” Protest of 1978. It was a popular protest against the commercialisation of ed ...

By Niran Adedokun Once again, leadership failed Nigeria massively this past week. Someone said that if you do not know the purpose of a thing, abuse of that thing is inevitable. A lot of those in lead ...

BY REUBEN ABATI Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe Falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loo ...

By Azuka Onwuka Nigerians are known to endure all manner of indignities without protesting. It was said that if political leaders pushed Nigerians to the wall, rather than fight back, they would burro ...

By Dr. Abayomi Ajayi If there is no sperm or semen found in your ejaculate, it simply means that you are suffering from azoospermia – a condition that affects 1 in 10 men who are having fertility prob ...

By Peter Esele My 14-year-old daughter had this to say when the End SARS protests broke out, “thank God! At last!” While I was still reeling from the shrewd observation, in that subconsciously pejorat ...

By Dele Sobowale We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector” – Donald T Regan, 1986. Donald Regan was US Secretary of the Treas ...

By Kunle Shonaike In a previous article, we mentioned essential things vehicle owners whether new, old or an aspiring owner should know to give proper care for their vehicles and get the best out of t ...

By Obadiah Mailafia Old men do not rebel. It is the young that have the energy to revolt. They have nothing to lose. Until recently, I was almost tempted to give up on the Nigerian youths. Have we not ...

By Okey Ikechukwu The ongoing anti-SARS protests, the fluctuating industrial disputes between the government and university teachers, oil workers, doctors, etc., are signs of a deep national crisis. T ...

By OKEY ANUEYIAGU “Look around, strong man politics are ascendant suddenly, whereby elections and some pretense of democracy are maintained but those in power seek to undermine every institution or no ...

By Nimi WaribokoThe problem of Nigeria is not ethnicity or the threats of secessionism, but the failure to create and sustain inclusive political and economic institutions… Elections, politics, and p ...

By Donu Kogbara Bravo to the enraged youngsters who are protesting against police brutality and extortion in Lagos and other cities. They are doing exactly what some of their parents – my age mates – ...

By Tobias Adrian Despite a global economic crisis comparable only to the Great Depression, near-term financial stability risks have been contained with the help of unprecedented monetary policy easing ...

By Shane Chorley The concept of open access (OA) business model is here to stay. It provides the most effective way of driving competition between internet service providers (ISPs) while giving custom ...

By Patrick Dele Cole Most desirable toy was a bicycle wheel frame that was no longer in use. The wheel had a grove around it. We cut a small tree branch which we placed on the grove and rolled, contro ...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me say emphatically that the moment we all dreaded has finally arrived. It is unfortunate that the falcon did not hear the falconer. Nigerian leaders behaved like ...

By Femi Akintunde-Johnson While I was writing this article, the tenor of my sentiment and the chord that propelled me was rooted in the 1977 monster hit song of same title as my headline… “Dem leave S ...

By Ochereome Nnanna In August 1970, my paternal uncle, Corporal Ezikpe Nnanna, took me to Enugu. I was just 10, but a 10-year-old boy hardboiled in Biafra. I can tell you that indeed, there was a coun ...

By Evelyn Usman The name – Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, usually sent cold shivers down the spines of criminals who saw the unit not just as an antidote to their atrocious acts, but capable of sen ...

By Owei Lakemfa The Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria, ARCAN, Africa’s largest, and perhaps most experienced gathering of diplomats decided on October 6, 2020 to make a prognosis of ...

By FEMI ADESINA For well over one week, the polity has been suffused with what President Muhammadu Buhari describes as “genuine concerns and agitations by Nigerians about the excessive use of force an ...

By Gita Gopinath The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread with over 1 million lives tragically lost so far. Living with the novel coronavirus has been a challenge like no other, but the world is adap ...

By Olusegun Adeniyi Events of the past one week across the country have revealed the true character of the Nigerian police: It is an institution that still sees its role as basically to put down any f ...

By Catriona Laing CBE and Peter Hawkins Renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie knows the power of ambition. In We Should All Be Feminists, she writes “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make t ...

By KAYODE KOMOLAFE The current protests of the youths spreading across the country, under the bold banners of #ENDSARS, were provoked by serial assaults on freedom and human dignity. So, the issue at ...

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By Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, John Ralyea, and Elif Ture The COVID-19 crisis has devastated people’s lives, jobs, and businesses. Governments have taken forceful measures to cushion the blow, totaling ...

By Nimi Wariboko In Nigeria, the pursuit of perfection or excellence is almost a crime. You have heard that it has been said by the wise men and women that the perfect must not become the enemy of the ...

By Aubrey Hruby and Jake Bright Just over five years ago we published The Next Africa to shed light on the rise of African markets and the resulting shifts in how businesses, governments, and individu ...

By Tom Ascott Everyone has seen a meme, whether they know it or not. They’re everywhere on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The most popular ones make it off the internet and show up in newspapers, te ...

By Muhammadu Buhari In the new post-coronavirus age, Nigeria — and Africa, more broadly — wishes to benefit the world, not be a drag on its resources or to seemingly be forever in need of aid. At last ...

By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú Overall, a new policing system must reflect the decentralisation thrust inherent in a federal state. It must be community-based and properly funded. No sensible system can ...

By Reuben Abati This time, new heroes and heroines have shown up from the most unlikely quarters. Their protest goes beyond police brutality. It demonstrates the power of technology and the nature of ...

By Mary Beth Leonard We have benefited from the positive role Nigerians in America have played, just as we look back with pride on how our sixty years of diplomatic relations have blossomed to support ...

By Anders and Matthew Page The experiences in Nigeria, Tanzania and Malawi suggest that the president has virtually unlimited power to select, hire and fire the head of the country’s anti-corruption a ...

By Ebere Onwudiwe Take the simple question of justice and fairness. Half of the villagers are not happy with the Eze on this issue. That’s one reason that the village is a divided house. It is split i ...

By Bassim Haidar The pandemic has emphasised, beyond a point of reasonable doubt, the importance of technology to our modern world. Just as video calling and messaging have allowed us to work, study a ...

By Maudo Jallow Ghana has shown that by dropping the dogma around free market policy, making manufacturing a bipartisan cause and using the government as a problem-solving machine for business, Africa ...

By WOLE TALABI I’ve read a lot of science fiction. Award-winning epics, sweeping space operas, philosophical considerations of the human condition, wonderful alternate histories, spectacular visions o ...

By Femi Aribisala “Nobody,” he declared, “is going to take this church away from me.” As a young believer at a Lagos church, I was appalled at the cutthroat politics of the church, all revolving aroun ...

By Uddin Ifeanyi …when they go about their business in the way that got the demonstrators’ goat, the police only express the flip-side of an old argument, one where private enterprise is not to be tru ...

By Dakuku Peterside Is another developmental vision necessary? A resounding ‘yes’ is the answer. Will it work this time around, unlike the previous ones? It depends on all of us. A complete change in ...

By Joseph Ushigiale This is my second commentary on the same subject matter, the first was published last weekend and I am again compelled to follow up in the hope that truth and reasoned argument wou ...

By Chinedu Obike The dissolution of the dreaded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) by the Nigerian Police Force may have calmed some nerves and opened another front of agitation and protests. Recall th ...

By Festus Adedayo As I made to angrily start the car, he howled, “Move an inch from there! If I no waste you now and dem bury you today, call me a bastard!” I froze. His voice clattered like pebbles j ...

By AKIN OSUNTOKUN Several weeks ago, I anticipated the concerns of Pastor Enoch Adeboye with this conclusion: “I have decided to broach the advocacy of restructuring this time around on account of the ...

By Abbati Bako The idea of restructuring of Nigeria is a mirage and pipe dream of some empty-headed-meghaphone in my country Nigeria that do not understand the direction of the world or what is called ...

By Simon-Kolawole If you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo was a collegiate champion at ...

By Sonala Olumhense I quote the 2014 Manifesto of Nigeria’s ruling party (APC): “Since the historic merger that resulted in the birth of the All Progressives Congress, APC in July 2013, our intention ...

By Toyin Falola As a trained economist and theologian, NEW founded theories and modelled approaches to the study of the society that blends theological teachings of nature and awareness of cosmic inte ...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, the resistance against the oppression of mostly defenceless Nigerians by officers of the Nigeria Police special squad, known as SARS, came to a deafening crescendo thi ...

By Olusegun Adeniyi Anyone who has followed testimonies (backed mostly by video evidence) from victims of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) knows it would take more than feeble press statements to ...

By Tunji Ajibade Recently, former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, presented the military as the better achievers in governance in Nigeria. He couldn’t have said otherwise as a soldier an ...

By Ayo Olukotun Finally, the tumult, excitement and apprehensions of the heated governorship campaign in Ondo State yield way on Saturday, October 10, to the solemnity, provided there are no violent u ...

By Dele Sobowale Nigeria’s debt service to revenue ratio is unsustainable – NESG; Sunday Telegraph, August 23, 2020, p, 15. A visitor from another planet, versed in economics, on arriving in Nigeria a ...

By FAROOQ KPEROGI There is an abysmally low legal literacy in Nigeria. And the Nigerian political elite have discovered that they can exploit the fear and ignorance of the law in the general populatio ...

By Saheed Babajide Owonikoko Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it s ...

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Whereas Nero famously fiddled while Rome burned, US President Donald Trump has famously hit the links at his money-losing golf courses while California burns – and as more than 2 ...

By Azu Ishiekwene A major headliner last week was the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, calling for restructuring. He didn’t just call for it: he also spr ...

By AMIN OWEI LAKEMFA Ghana, with its being in the middle of West Africa and a seeming gateway to other West African countries, is essential for Nigerian trade. Similarly, Nigeria, with its big market, ...

As lovers of education luxuriate in the glow of the special recognition given to teachers by the Federal Government, lecturers in tertiary institutions in Nigeria might just be digging in for a prolon ...

BY Russell Rickford African American imaginings of Africa often intermingle with—and help illuminate—intimate hopes and desires for Black life in the United States. So when an African American pop sta ...

By Karl Westvig As we celebrate Heritage Day today in South Africa, Karl Westvig, CEO and founder of Retail Capital shares his views that local SMEs hold the keys to unlocking South Africa’s prosperit ...

By Kurt Davis Jr. Can Nigeria’s President employ the strategy of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince in privatising a state oil corporation? The goal to privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC ...

By Kevin Marsh and Moses Alobo  As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the ...

By RAGHURAM G. RAJAN With the COVID-19 pandemic reinforcing concerns about economic inequality, left-behind communities, discrimination, and climate change, there is increasing pressure on corporation ...

By Ochereome Nnanna Senator Smart Adeyemi is someone I have known at a close personal level for over 30 years. Between 1988 and 1989, we were both on the executive committee of the Niger State chapter ...

By JEFFREY D. SACHS Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policym ...

By KEMAL DERVIŞ The outcome of the US presidential election on November 3 will have momentous consequences for America in terms of economic policy, racial justice, the judiciary, health care, and the ...

By Lekan Sote Aisha Yesufu expressed concern that Nigerians, who usually complain about failure of governance in Nigeria, failed to show up for a scheduled protest march on Independence Day. The film ...

BY KAYODE KOMOLAFE Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano made a statement in Aso Rock yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari should ponder beyond the surface. While informing the President about the ...

By Reuben Abati On Friday, October 2, the news channels were inundated with the Breaking News of US President Donald Trump and the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump’s COVID-19 infection. ...

By Kristalina Georgieva A World Turned Upside Down I am honored to celebrate with all of you the 125th anniversary of the London School of Economics. It is a proud moment for the students and faculty, ...

By EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA, SAN THE governorship election in Ondo State is scheduled for Saturday,October 10, 2020. There are similarities and differences in the Edo and Ondo elections and lots of lessons ...

By Lasisi Olagunju “For what is wedlock forced but hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss And is a pattern of celestial peace.” -William Shakespeare, 1 Henry ...

By Femi Aribisala 'Here lies a vain man who dared to despise the judgment of God’. Donald Trump, president of the United States, disparaged Joe Biden, his opponent for the American presidency, over th ...

By Dele Sobowale A different article was planned for today. On Sunday, August 31, 2020, despite still being physically challenged, I travelled to Abuja to discuss two national issues – NDDC and Igbo p ...

By Aylin Elci The African continent has experienced fewer COVID-19 casualties than initially predicted.According to the World Health Organization, the continent has benefited from social and environme ...

By Tamba François Koundouno The past few months have seen Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan take up an active role on many fronts, from Idlib to Tripoli, and now increasingly in the territorial dispute be ...

By Sam OMATSEYE GOODLUCK Jonathan has always counted himself a lucky man. He became deputy governor, governor, vice president and president without ambition or prayer, without a campaign or mass appea ...

By Mervyn George South Africa’s healthcare sector has conducted roughly four million COVID-19 tests with around 650 000 positive cases identified. While infection rates continue to climb in much of th ...

By Johan Scheepers Information Technology (IT) has become simpler and more complex. This is best described with the cloud making it easier to consume while adding challenges of massive data growth, in ...

By ALEX OTTI The reason your life stays the same is because you think everyone else is the problem. Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you ...

By Simon-Kolawole In my previous article, ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day celebrations, I tried to examine the root of Nigeria’s divisive politicking. In what many saw as a sacrilegious criti ...

By Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour It was not by accident that the tagline selected to capture the essence of Lagos is, Centre of Excellence. The tagline does not say, close to excellent, neither does it say tr ...

By Pedro Guerreiro The 21st century is widely touted as the ‘African Century’, a period promising unprecedented economic and technological growth for the continent. Africa’s future looks bright. The c ...

By FAROOQ KPEROGI A former minister called me a few days ago to say the focus of my columns on Muhammadu Buhari ignores my own 2018 disclosure that he is a captive of an irrecoverably degenerative men ...

By EBUN-OLU ADEGBORUWA, SAN Labour and Civil Society Organisations (LASCO) had planned to commence a nationwide strike on Monday, against the electricity tariff hike and increase in the price of petro ...

By Sonala Olumhense In President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2000-word Independence Day address to Nigerians, he appeared determined to portray the image of a unifier.  He used the word, together, 10 time ...

By Emmanuel Paul Global tech giant, Google, recently launched a number of initiatives aimed at helping businesses, job seekers, and educational institutions among others, recover from the impact of th ...

By Tom Jackson During the 2008 financial crisis Warren Buffett famously coined the phrase “only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked”. What was true a decade ago has been a ...

By Maude Vallee In 2019, private investment commitments to public-private partnership (PPP) projects within low and middle-income countries amounted to $97 billion across 409 projects in 62 countries. ...

By Akinsola Dele Nigeria’s Diamond Jubilee has, auspiciously, coincided and by Divine arrangement with the year that the first two digits match the second two digits; a special and unique year – 2020. ...

By NJ Ayuk On Oct. 1, 1960, everything seemed possible for Nigeria: After nearly 80 years of colonialism under Great Britain, it was finally an independent nation. During the newly independent nation’ ...

By Grace Goodrich Three years ago, brothers James and Hugo Hill identified a growing demand for complex insurance products required by energy companies and other ‘Special Risk’ businesses in Africa, a ...

By Femi Adesina Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line and Ancillary Facility ...