Opinion

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” — Cicero, 46 B.C. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), renowned statesman, lawyer, philosopher, poet and ‘the greatest forensic orator Rome ever produced’, was right! We have to go into the past to understand today! …

Africa’s debt stocks have grown significantly in the past decade. Understandably, African governments took advantage of historically low interest rates in the 2010s and borrowed heavily from international capital markets and China. However, debt has recently become a lot more expensive. Since 2020, the impacts of COVID-19 and the ongoing Ukraine …

  THE nation has, in the last few weeks, been steeped in a rash of arguments between the management of Dangote Refinery and oil sector regulatory authority, to wit – the Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA)-over the refinery’s operational practices, failure of adherence with standards, and other ancillary …

PRESIDENT Tinubu’s self-serving speech–which basically sang his own praises, said he’d heard the people’s anguished cries but won’t do anything about the cries and then threatened that the people shouldn’t cry for much longer or they’d be crushed– signposts the making of an unfeeling tyrant. If the people close to …

TWO weeks before the August 1, 2024- D-Day for the start of the #EndBadgovernanceinNigeria protest, programmed by the #takeitbacknigeria movement and its allies, there had been a huge paroxysm around the Federal Government. There were security briefings, meetings with the political class, traditional institutions and religious bodies, youth groups, etc. …

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shot himself so badly with his bold mis-steps on the planned protests. He cannot ask people not to protest. He should stop threatening them as he has been doing in the past few days. His approach is poor politics completely incompatible with the world-acclaimed political …

A playboy can play the field forever or till his penis drops off, or whichever one comes first. A playgirl? No, she must retire quickly, indeed, before everyone notices what she does for a living. A playgirl, a runs-girl, a courtesan or a high class call girl must know when …

You know there are somethings that are so simple that it’s amazing that nobody thinks about them or even recognises them when they occur. This statement attributed to influential politician Chief Dele Momodu is one of them. That someone imported the Lagos template to Abuja and that’s why things are …

MINDERS of Ahmed Usman Ododo the governor of the confluence state of Kogi flung him into the public square of opprobrium and derision last May. Ododo by the way was the Auditor-General in-charge of local government under Bello. The orchestra of sycophants he inherited from his benefactor and predecessor, Yahaya …

THE Supreme Court decision that federally-allocated funds be paid directly to the local governments (LGs) has raised serious concerns about whether we are actually practising Federalism and, if we are, what variant of Federalism. The apex court’s decision was at the instance of the Federal Government (FG) that dragged the …