Category: Opinon
Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road: Leave the talk, Let’s face the business.
By Dada Olusegun The Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most ambitious transport infrastructure project since independence. In...
Wikes conduct poses a clear threat to National Security-Buratai,rtd Army Chief
By Lt Gen Tukur Buratai rtd The events of November 11, 2025, involving the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike, demand an immediate and...
How to Drink from a Poisoned Cup: Harold Smith Story and the Nigerian Story
Azu Ishiekwene On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in Nigeria. And that’s probably to be...
Tinubu,Governors and the masses
For the upteenth time last week,July 28,2025,President Bola Ahmed Tinubu called out Governors of Nigerias 36 states on the need to look after the welfare of those...
There is pain behind that smile. Just do your bit
by Hassan Gimba One learns every day. Anyway, a man is supposed to learn from cradle to grave, as said by the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (SAW). And so, I have learnt a...
The Ogoni 9, Tinubu, And His Presidential Pardon
By Kazeem Akintunde President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday last week, addressed a joint session of the National Assembly in commemoration of the 2025 Democracy Day...
Akinwunmi Adesinas claims on Nigeria’s GDP per Capital: The Facts Tell a different Story
By Bayo Onanuga A few days ago, outgoing AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina claimed that Nigerians today are worse off than in 1960, basing his conclusion on figures...
Defections:How PDP self – destruct
Ordinarily, opposition parties in a saner clime are supposed to come together, combine resources, mobilise members to fight the ruling government. This is if they...
For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria
By Lasisi Olagunju “As an Offa citizen, I am made to look like an inferior being. While competing for anything in the North, I would be told that I am a...
El-Rufai’s crowd around Buhari
The saying that in politics,there is no permanent friend but permanent interest fits perfectly into Nigeria’s politics of accommodation especially since the...
