Category: Opinion

Tax Reform Without Trust Will Fail

  By Lanre Ogundipe Nigeria’s 2026 tax reform arrives not as an isolated policy choice but as a fiscal inevitability shaped by years of structural weakness in...

“Let Anioma,Ijebu Ogoja,Ibadan and other states be”

By Eric Teniola On May 27, 1967, the then Head of State, General Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon (91) GCFR, said “the main obstacle to future stability in this country is the...

Alaafin Oyo,Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111:Four years after passage of an Uncommon Monarch

  By Rev  Eniola Olatunji   This day four years ago,April 22,2022, I was away in Lagos to Minister at the RCCG Parish in Ketu when my phone buzzed late in the...

What goes around

What goes around…   By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193   It is sweet to be a champion! Ex-champion is a pill too bitter to...

Ogun stakeholders Meeting:At the Gate or Inside the Room? The Politics of Performance in Ijebu-Ode

  By an Eyewitness   Titilope Abidoye   IJEBU-ODE — In politics, there are those who show up to do the work, and those who show up to be seen doing...

The Mega-Contracts: Procurement, Protocol, and the Presidency

    In an era where social media algorithms thrive on sensationalism, the boundary between legitimate governance and institutional cronyism is often...

2027: Concensus as APC litmus test

      Since the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999 and the first cycle election in 2023,none of the three previous Governors in Ogun state have been...

The Tinubu Enigma- Part 7: The Economics of Power — Money, Resources and Political Sustainability

By Lanre Ogundipe   If Part 6 examined the intelligence that drives President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political method, the next layer of analysis must confront a...

Journalism has changed; don’t you think?

Journalism has changed; don’t you think?   “Comment is free, but facts are sacred”- Charles Prestwich Scott.   By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705...

Pat Utomi

Pat Utomi: Time to take a back seat

    By Temitope Ajayi   Since bursting into national consciousness, Professor Patrick Utomi has convinced himself that he is the Nigerian equivalent of...