Category: Opinion

Prince Adekunle, the Yoruba Juju music maestro of the 1970s, once sang that a tree which falls in the forest cannot kill someone right inside their home; nor could a fallen rafter kill a bystander in the forest (Igi kìí dá l’óko kó pa ará ilé; àjà kìí jìn k’ó pa èrò ònà). We have found this not to be absolute. The falling tree and rafters of Western Nigeria once killed a bystander First Republic Nigeria. FCT Minister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike is a phenomenon. He is someone many love to…

The new Sustainability Reporting rejigged under the leadership of Dr Rabiu Olowo, The Executive Secretary,Chief Executive officer, ES/CEO of Financial Reporting Council, FRC, was obvious that cost savings, performance along with improved standards of practices becloud it’s activities. It was also laced with domesticated and global interactions geared towards streamlining and bringing to par it’s various programs and operations. This was due to the securing of commitment and confidence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu under the Renewed Hope Agenda, RHA of the present administration and the supervising Minister of Trade…

In politics, silence is often louder than speech, for it speaks in the language of calculation and consequence. Forgiveness, when declared by a powerful man, is louder still—a thunderclap in a quiet chamber. It unsettles expectations, invites suspicion, and demands interrogation, not because it is weak, but because power is never presumed innocent when it chooses mercy.   When Senate President Godswill Akpabio, GCON, announced his New Year resolution to forgive all offenders and withdraw every suit he had instituted, Nigeria’s political class instinctively reached for its usual tools—cynicism, calculation,…

The killing of Nurse Chinemerem Pascalina Chuwumeziem, a staff nurse at the Federal Medical Centre Abuja, on the 3rd of January 2026, while returning home after closing late from work, is a tragedy that should shake the conscience of Nigeria because nurses are not just ordinary caregivers; their jobs come with huge sacrifices to preserve human life. Therefore, the killing of Nurse Chinemerem is not merely a criminal incident; it is an indictment of institutional indifference to the safety of female workers on night duty. Nigeria’s insecurity is no secret.…

Commissioner of Police and Chief Security Officer CSO to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Usman Musa Shugaba clocked forty five years on the surface of the earth on Sunday , 4th, January, 2026.   Shugaba an accomplished Police officer who built his career in the Nigeria Police Force,NPF many years ago as Superintendent of Police SP, Chief Superintendent of Police CSP, Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP and later Commissioner of Police CP in his professional sojourn so far .   While building his professional career, he has worked with the former…

I begin with a telling scene. In 2001, former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, then a young journalist, visited the strongman of Kwara politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, at his Lagos home. From his vast library, the elder Saraki presented his guest with a book: ‘Life in the Jungle’ by Michael Heseltine. “Politics is truly a jungle,” the old politician told the young journalist.   That moment stayed with me as I read Bolaji’s latest book, ‘The Loyalist: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice’, slated for presentation in Abuja on January 27.…

A trending video shows Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, interrogating his national football team after their recent loss to Nigeria. His question was simple but unsettling: Why did you all go to attack and leave the goalkeeper to do your work? Then came the clincher: In the army, we don’t do that. This is far more than a lesson in football; it is a theory of state failure. We run our country the same way Uganda’s team played that match. Museveni spoke of AOR (Area of Responsibility). A Nigerian (politician) would…

A striking feature of Nigeria’s current economic debate is the enthusiasm with which huge numbers are circulated and the casualness with which they are assembled. Tax collections are added to oil receipts; oil receipts are added again under customs or “subsidy savings”; borrowing is treated as income; and the resulting total is presented as proof of incompetence or theft. This is not an economic analysis. It is an arithmetic illusion. At the core of most viral critiques of Tinubunomics lies a fundamental failure to distinguish between revenue, cash, and financing,…

Barely after the first edition of the write-up with the above caption, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated a Committee on Strategy, Conflict Resolution, and Mobilisation to resolve conflicts within the All Progressives Congress, APC. He tasked the committee with strengthening party cohesion, resolving lingering disputes, and crafting a unified mobilisation strategy to sustain APC’s dominance at the polls. He deemed it appropriate to appoint Governor Mai Mala Buni as its chairman.   Governor Buni was the first elected national secretary of the APC and served for five years. He left…