Category: Analysis

2027 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric

  By Hassan Gimba Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma...

2027 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric

By Hassan Gimba Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma Gandhi....

Revisiting 1951 Western Regional House of Assembly cross-carpeting saga…

    By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com   Election cycles are when politicians and spin doctors go down memory lane to exhume ghosts of the past....

Southwest and the power of early preparation

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development Commission, ought to project a future that will...

Dangote retains Africa’s richest man title as billionaires’ wealth hits $31.3bn

      Businessmen Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu have retained their positions among Africa’s richest billionaires, with their fortunes increasing...

Presidency makes clarification on the Freedom of Information Act case in Washington D.C

    The Presidency has noted recent speculative reports concerning an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case before the United States District Court for the...

Three Years of Blue Line: How Lagos’ Rail Revolution Is Reshaping Urban Mobility

Three Years of Blue Line: How Lagos’ Rail Revolution Is Reshaping Urban Mobility By Kolawole Ojelabi As Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line marks three years of...

Still on FCCPC and the cement monsters…

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 53 Last week we commented on the scandalously high price of cement in the country vis-a-vis our neighbouring...

Tinubu,Atiku and The Subsidy War*: Must Nigerians choose between Fiscal Ruin and Hunger?

      Nigeria is once again being invited to choose between two kinds of pain: the fiscal disaster of an open-ended petrol subsidy and the crushing...

Adeleke’s N.5bn Damage Control Fund

      Politics they say is purely a game of numbers. To get power you get the numbers on your side in a contest. In our clime,you not only get the...