Opinion

THE race for the 2027 governorship race seems to have started earlier than expected in the Centre of Excellence, Lagos State, albeit on a very dramatic note. The presentation of Lagos State’s 2025 budget proposal on 21 November was expected to be a milestone event, but the session at the …

FORMER Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has sharply criticized the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, describing the country’s current state under his administration as one of “chaos, insecurity, and disunity.” In a keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum at Yale University, Connecticut, Obasanjo emphasized that the problems facing Nigeria …

Ordinarily, I would not join issues with a certain Kelvin Emmanuel on his so-called analysis of the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy. Someone who has not seen the inside of a refinery before Dangote built one, let alone understood the mechanism of the energy industry is assuming …

Proving the Return on Investment (ROI) of public relations remains one of the most complex challenges in the communications industry. The lack of access to comprehensive sales and marketing data often leaves PR efforts stranded without the full picture. This disconnect can make it difficult to clearly attribute business outcomes …

(Monday Lines published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 28 October, 2024) Patient walks unaided into the doctor’s consulting room. Patient soon suffers mismanagement. She goes pale and jerky, unconscious. Doctor gives his best shot – or so he claims. Patient is not responsive. Doctor strolls off, leaving the patient …

(Published in the Sunday Tribune, October 13, 2024) In the build-up to the 2015 election, when President Muhammadu Buhari mounted the podium to seek votes from Nigerians, he campaigned on three major fronts. He promised to fight insurgency, corruption, and rebuild the economy. With this three-pronged campaign agenda, the Katsina-born …

NIGERIA was 64 last Tuesday. On that day in 1960, expec­tations were high and the country’s founding fathers had lofty dreams about a nation that was destined for the top with all the resources, both natural and human. However, 64 years later, it has been a dashed dream thus far. …

This question had started bugging my mind since watching the recent visit of the Odua team led by my egbon Otunba Bimbo Ashiru to visit him recently. In a jiffy, he would soon complete his second term and I have not been hearing of any rumour as to his next …

It’s very clear that we are not in a crisis; we just have economic managers who really are not interested in solving the problem. I just saw a report attributed to the Minister of State for Petroleum saying that fuel prices should be dispensed at above N1, 000 per litre …

SOMEONE called my attention to a post he had forwarded to me last week and said: “You must have seen the post I forwarded to you (he was not the writer)”. I hadn’t seen it and I said so. “Then, check it out!”, he barked at me. Continuing, he said: …