Category: Opinion

Workers’ lingering strike: Matters arising

  By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Last week, I published here the first part of “One year later, what value has Tinubu added to our lives?”...

Finding long-lasting solutions to Nigeria’s woes

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Scripture says “Where no counsel is, the people fall: But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety”...

The north's tadpoles and Deborah Yakubu

Homeless kids invade South West

  By Lasisi Olagunju   “A large percentage of them are from Niger Republic, Mali, and Chad.” The six South-West states are being overrun by an army...

Assembly Of Yes Men

By Kazeem Akintunde President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has never hidden his love for Nigeria’s old National Anthem, ‘Nigeria Will Hail Thee’. Long before he was elected...

Tinubu The Audacity To Hope: One Year After

  By Segun Adeleye See how time flies! It’s a year since that symbolical declaration in his inaugural speech “….that these things are within our proximate...

An indolent labour union and matters arising

  by Hassan Gimba   For the past four years, I have been insisting that our problem and even need now is not about salary increment but about being a...

Why Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea

  Azu Ishiekwene I’m opposed to minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage hurts the poor and vulnerable in whose...

Tinubu’s economic reforms and prospects for prosperous future

  By Adebanjo Mokuolu When President Bola Tinubu took office at the helm of Africa’s largest democracy, he said in my inaugural address that Nigeria is “too...

And Trump’s cookie will continue to crumble

Caption:Hassan Gimba This write-up is not new. It was first published on January 18, 2021. Considering his recent court case, I find it relevant to republish it today....

Nigeria: Federalism, unitarism, hybrid or what?

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE 0705 263 1058 turnpot@gmail.com It is a puzzle that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has dragged the 36 state governments to...