Nigeria needs census at all costs in 2025

“We must ascertain who we are, how many we are, and how to manage our data. Without an accurate census, we can’t successfully plan for employment, agriculture, and food sovereignty. So many proble...

12th March 2025

Political conundrum in Rivers and Lagos states

The last few days have been politically charged in Rivers and Lagos States. While the camp of Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State was thrown into mourning last Friday, February 28, 2025, after the Sup...

5th March 2025

FG’s revival of road tolling

The payment of access fees, otherwise known as tolls, by road users, is a global practice that also has a long history in Nigeria. Before former President Olusegun Obasanjo stopped the tolling of fede...

26th February 2025

Bloodbath in Osun and the Lagos political tremor

February 17, 2025, will go down in the annals of Lagos and Osun states as epochal and Black Monday. There was a political tremor in the Lagos State House of Assembly as operatives of the Directorate o...

19th February 2025

The folly of additional state creation in Nigeria

Since news broke last Thursday from the House of Representatives that Nigerian political elites are requesting for additional 31 states, the media has been buzzing with views of protagonists and antag...

12th February 2025

An eventful weekend in Lagos

It was a homecoming of sorts last weekend. The official assignment brought me back to Lagos, a state where I have schooled and worked before occupational mobility took me to Abuja 22 years ago. I was ...

5th February 2025

Ceaseless strikes in Nigeria’s health sector

Health is wealth, says a popular adage. There is hardly anyone alive who does not need medical attention during his or her life. Thanks to medical and health sciences, which have, through research and...

29th January 2025

Political economy of Tinubu’s tax reform bills

Taxes, tariffs, duties and levies are ways the government rakes in revenue to run institutions of governance and finance provisions of physical infrastructures including social amenities. Taxation is ...

22nd January 2025

Let’s respect and celebrate Nigerian Armed Forces heroes

Close your eyes and imagine Nigeria without security personnel – police and military. Will there be law and order? Will you and I be able to sleep with our eyes closed? Would we be able to travel in...

15th January 2025

Democracy and development at Nigeria’s subnational levels

“Let me use this New Year’s message to urge our governors and local council chairpersons to work closely with the central government to seize emerging opportunities in agriculture, livestock, and ...

8th January 2025

Political economy of Nigeria in 2024

Happy New Year to the good people of a great nation, Nigeria!  What a rough and tough year 2024 has been! To have survived the turpsy-turvy of last year shows how resilient and long-suffering Nigeria...

1st January 2025

Nigerians at 2024 Christmas: Suffering and smiling

It’s Christmas day! Hearty congratulations for witnessing it. For Nigerians, it’s been a tough year. A year of vicissitudes. As many Christians troop to church this morning in thanksgiving for sur...

25th December 2024

Ghana’s 2024 general election, lessons for Nigeria

Last Saturday, December 7, 2024, Ghana had its ninth general election in its Fourth Republic, which started with the 1992 Constitution. On Monday, December 9, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commissi...

18th December 2024

National grid collapse, vandalism and energy insecurity

As we count down to the end of 2024, one of the things that define this year is the exponential growth in the incidences of collapse of the national grid supplying electricity to the whole of Nigeria,...

18th December 2024

Ghana’s 2024 General Election, lessons for Nigeria

Last Saturday, December 7, 2024, Ghana had her ninth general election in her Fourth Republic which started with the 1992 Constitution. On Monday, December 9, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commissio...

12th December 2024

Antidotes to Nigeria’s voter apathy syndrome

“The greatest threat to democracy is indifference.” – former United States president, Franklin Roosevelt. This is not a rejoinder to last Sunday’s editorial of this newspaper titled “Vot...

4th December 2024

What’s Tinubu’s, APC, NASS agenda on restructuring?

For many years now, there have been call for political and economic restructuring of Nigeria. The rationale for this is to make Nigeria’s federalism to be more effective and efficient. It is also ge...

27th November 2024

Aiyedatiwa, the one oracle and Ondo people chose

“It is the Ifa oracle that has chosen Aiyedatiwa, not any human being. his mandate is a divine call from our ancestors, and there is nothing anyone can do to alter this” – Orunja of Odigbo Kingd...

20th November 2024

Imperative of credible, peaceful 2024 Ondo governorship election

In compliance with Section 28 (1) of the Electoral Act 2022 which mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a Notice of Election at least 360 days before the poll, the Commission...

13th November 2024

Who wins America’s 2024 presidential election?

There is no bigger news all over the world than the likely outcome of the November 5 US presidential election. All eyes are on America, “the policeman of the world!” By the time you’re reading t...

6th November 2024