Meter asset provider regulation: A game changer?
UNARGUABLY, the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria is constrained in its growth by inadequate power generation, distribution and consumption.…
Ekiti: Rule of law or rule of the judge?
WEDNESDAY, 17 April, 2019 came. The Supreme Court passed its judgment in a suit involving Chief Segun Oni, former governor…
Sunset on Saraki’s political dynasty
IN a 1796 letter, third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I have no ambition to govern men.…
FG and issues in Christian Pilgrims’ Commission
These are interesting times. Issues of diverse scope, shape and dimension arise for managers to wear their thinking caps and…
Poor North and the rest of neglected Nigeria
NOT long ago, a conference was held in Kaduna State where Alhaji Dangote, the richest man in Africa, was present.…
What’s Fayemi’s interest in us?
THIS headline appears rhetorical coming from a new political appointee but behold, it is not. Rather, it is a soul-searching…
Justice Mamman Nasir and boundary clashes
OF all the tributes poured on Justice Mamman Nasir, the late Galadima of Katsina, who died on April 13 this…
Electing principal officers of 9th NASS
IN recent weeks, the conventional and social media have been awash with articles about the impending election of the principal…
Nigerian pastors, private jets and future of the gospel
AS is often the case in Nigeria, each week has its own peculiar national issue around which the public discourse…
Nigerian state and its many orphans: Reflecting on Helen Paul
Almost every Nigerian knows who Helen Paul is. She is that star comedienne. Just one out of the few ladies…
Obaseki’s strides and the peoples support
THE media both conventional and social have been in the last few weeks inundated with the coming elections in Edo…
Buhari allegedly Jubril, Atiku allegedly Cameroonian, and the gyre Nigeria has become
It would be germane to begin this reflection with the Irish poet W. B. Yeats’s poem, ‘The Second Coming’, written…
Sri Lanka’s terror reminds us that social media can kill
Eight years ago, Western observers were appalled when then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak cut off internet access in the midst of…
Folorunsho Abdulrazaq reclaims his glory in Kwara (2)
ON December 16, 1977, Alhaji Abdulrazaqgave me a copy of his speech which he read at the first reading of…
Atiku’s petition, Buhari’s defence and INEC’s stance
SINCE the candidate of the PDP in the 2019 Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, submitted his petition in which he contested…
Nigerian polity and principles of public life
A month from now, the four-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari will expire for a fresh term to commence in…
Still on incoming 9th NASS
USING NTA Tuesday Live, the Nigerian Television Authority talkshow, as a barometer for measuring the pulse of the nation about…
Another lethal prescription by the IMF
THE global financial institution – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – is at it again. It has come up with…
Again, Easter without Citizen Leah Sharibu
IT was not a fairy tale when parents of Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi said his brilliance at chess would never have…
Folorunsho Abdulrazaq reclaims his glory in Kwara
ON March 29, the body of benchers 132 outstanding lawyers in Abuja. The Body of Benchers is a statutory body…
