Category: Opinion

The Development Bank of Nigeria, DBN since it’s inception has continued to host the World International Women’s Day , IWD to celebrate women of distinction , recognition, and also empowered the vulnerable ones which has led to a thriving businesses and economy in recent times, particularly the accelerated growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product,GDP. The 2026 program will not be an exception either through celebration of the annual program or availement to women in Nigeria, under the leadership of Dr Tony Okpanachi, the Managing Director, Development Bank of Nigeria,…

As Nigeria gradually approaches the 2027 general elections, the conversation around credible elections has once again taken center stage. Elections remain the most powerful instrument through which citizens express their democratic will, determine leadership, and shape the future of their nation. However, Nigeria’s electoral history has been punctuated by concerns ranging from voter apathy and electoral violence to vote buying, manipulation of results, and declining trust in institutions. If the 2027 elections must stand out as credible, transparent, and widely accepted, responsibility must not rest on one institution alone. It…

For consecutive near one decade , the United Nations Deputy Secretary General , Amina J .Mohammed, a Nigerian has occupied the position diplomatically, administratively and diligently, having attained the deputy leadership in 2017, reappointed on merit for a second term in office in 2022 on the recommendation of the Secretary General, who commended her stint at the first instance.   In his words ..   “After being elected, I have the pleasure to invite the deputy secretary-general to remain in my second mandate and I hope she will accept,” Guterres…

The grand lunch of the Integrated National Financing Framework, INFF, in Nigeria was geared towards efforts at resolving all immediate and remote gaps of sustainable development in all areas, prior to 2020-2030 Agenda that is few years away as envisaged by the SDGs. With the lunch , no doubt, the teething issues of funding from public purse , private spirited entities, multinationals among many others has become a thing of the past four years down the line and the public sector. The related social , humanitarian and climatic situations powered…

The Federal Housing Authority, FHA under the leadership of Rt Honorable Oyetunde Olubunmi Ojo policy of not abandoning projects inherited from his predecessors and in alignment with Renewed Hope Agenda, RHA of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is yielding positive results , as the Authority has kept fate with the reactivation and simultaneously commissioning multiple projects, along with initiating new ones .   Two years down the line , the Chief Executive officer and Managing Director of FHA has also changed the operational , workings and welfare narration of the agency…

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful   All praise be to Allah, who knows the hidden and the most concealed. Exalted is He, the Lord of the Earth and the high heavens, who brings laughter and tears, life and death, and riches and sufficiency. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, alone without any partner, and I testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, the most faithful Prophet. May Allah exalt him, his family, his companions, and those…

Journalist arrived at the Government House with a proverb on his tongue.   “Your Excellency,” he began after the courtesies, notebook open, “in Yoruba, there is a word: Apanimáyọdà.”   The APC governor smiled faintly. “The one who kills without unsheathing a sword.”   “Exactly,” the journalist said. “A + pa + ni + má + yọ + idà—the agent who destroys without drawing blood. No blade flashes, yet the opponent falls. I remembered that word when the president said last Wednesday while breaking fast with senators that he was…

Nigerians when they cry, even the bereaved gets scared. Because they are an impossible people; everything divides them. The Iranian crisis is the latest divider. I see Trump supporters across the Middle Belt and the South. I read anger across parts of Nigeria’s Muslim North. Some who once applauded the brutal, deadly suppression of Shiites in Kaduna (even unleashing street mobs on their corpses) now rage that the arch-enemy has killed a Shiite supreme leader in Iran. Hubris sits in the house as ‘Stand Straight,’ while its servant walks the…

“Critics must talk. When they accused me of killing the opposition, but I didn’t have a gun.” That was President Bola Tinubu talking last week. It was at the interfaith breaking of fast with members of the Senate which held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He was replying gathering pushback from opposition forces who claimed he was coercing decampers into his APC. The president was in high spirit. You do not have to be a nonverbal communication aficionado to see it coursing through him. But if you are vast…

No doubt the appointment of Ambassador Ismaila Yusuf was hailed by Nigerians as a perfect match for National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON capable of ending erratic leadership, internal rancour among many others.   With versed wealth of experience both administratively and technocratic, the new leadership has set the ball rolling through the outlining of a riot act to guide the modes , model of operation and guidelines that will be devoid of red tapism among many others.   Therefore, in preparation for the 2026 Hajj arrangements, despite at middle…