Category: Opinion

South Africa: We are all victims

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The...

Deficits, Debt and Economic Literacy: A Response to Nigeria’s Fiscal Critics

    By Tanimu Yakubu   Those who speak glibly about deficits, debt and fiscal expansion often reveal not economic sophistication, but economic illiteracy...

The Tinubu Enigma: Part 10: Reform, Pain and the Burden of Power

  By Lanre Ogundipe There is a profound difference between winning power and governing a distressed state. Politics rewards optimism. Campaigns thrive on promises,...

NADECO Marks 32nd Anniversary With Opadokun’s Memoir Launching

… Conferment Of Awards On Media And Other Heroes Of Democracy, May 20 In Lagos Chief Ayo Opadokun Some 32 years after its creation as the arrowhead of the epic...

Dapo Abiodun and the Ogun East 2027 Equation: Why the Debate Is Tilting in One Direction

  By Lekan Adeniran       As conversations around the 2027 general elections quietly gather momentum across Ogun State, one political reality is...

Atiku, Obi Birds of a Feather and their Vaulting Ambitions

    By Tunde Rahman   For someone running for the presidency a record seventh time and who has switched political parties at least four times since 1999,...

Blood on Mandela’s Rainbow: The Betrayal of Africans in South Africa*

    In 1963, when the winds of liberation still trembled across Africa, Nigeria declared that the freedom of the continent was incomplete while apartheid...

Governance, national ethos and succession planning (2)

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           The private sector has something to give here to the political establishment. The best companies endure and...

SOS to the President:Urgent State Response to Escalating Attacks on Nigerians in South Africa

Your Excellency, The recent escalation of targeted violence against Nigerians residing in the Republic of South Africa presents not merely a humanitarian concern, but a...

A season of long knives…

A season of long knives…   By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193   (Published in TREASURES column on the back page of the New...