Speaker Gbaja, let it not be a one-off
It was quite impressive seeing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, taking over a classroom and teaching…
Using capital punishment to curb corruption
Corruption in Nigeria has assumed a frightening proportion. It is no longer about who is corrupt in the country, it…
Xenophobic attacks: This is our chance
The insult Nigeria has suffered from South African authorities is unimaginable. Despite the unprovoked attacks by South African nationals on…
Ministers, your POAs, please
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s idea of organising a retreat for his ministers ahead of their assumption of office came across as…
Poor education and Nigeria’s continuous grope in the dark
That the nation’s education system has hit an intolerable low was accentuated last Thursday by the Director General of the…
Stopping the impending revolution
WITH Omoyele Sowore arrested in Lagos and whisked away to Abuja by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS),…
Should Nigerian government in good conscience collect taxes?
MORE than any previous government, the current government has harped on the need for Nigerians to pay tax. The government’s…
The political-economy of Boko Haram war
While speaking recently at a programme organised by the Nigerian Army in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.…
The real problem with Buhari presidency
PROFESSOR Wole Soyinka, last week, while playing host to some secondary students, as part of the activities lined up for…
The war Buhari must win
NOTHING points to the seeming failure of our country more than the calamity that befalls young Nigerians trying to avoid…
RUGA and citizens’ role in birthing change
The decision of the Federal Government to suspend the RUGA settlement scheme is a clear testimony that when the people…
Restructuring: Nigeria’s opportunity to change her narrative
BEFORE the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on…
The continued search for oil in the North
The outgoing Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, last week reiterated the plan…
Giving teeth to Buhari’s poverty eradication plan
THE 10-year plan to lift at least 100 million Nigerians out of poverty announced by President Muhammadu Buhari last Wednesday,…
Nigerians wake up; God is not your government
In the most un-presidential response to a national challenge, President Muhammadu Buhari, while visiting Plateau State in June 2018, to…
Rethinking education in Nigeria
A picture that went viral recently drives home the point that the nation’s education system has gone from the sublime…
The continuous Fulanisation and Northernisation of Nigeria
General Muhammadu Buhari will most likely be remembered by history as the President of Northern Nigeria rather than as Nigeria’s…
Abiola: Beyond declaring June 12 Democracy Day
The Senate, last Thursday, concluded the process commenced by President Muhammadu Buhari last year by passing the Public Holiday Act…
Feeney and Nigerian billionaires
Over the last 37 years, Chuck Feeney has given away $6.2billion to charity. But that is not the gist. The…
Death and the governors
Life begets death. The day a person is born, the race to death tees off. For some, it is a…
