Opinion

Few weeks back, there emerged, a rash of editorial commentaries from some dailies in Nigeria which were critical about the continuous relevance of the National Youth Service Corps scheme (NYSC) over half a century since it was institutionalised. The common denominator in all of these commentaries by these print media …

When retired military officers join politics, they hardly distinguish between the enemy on the battlefield and the political enemy. Whereas the soldier is trained to kill, not even maim, his enemies (enemies of the state that commissioned him), the political field is a different plain. We agree to disagree and …

(Monday Lines published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 3 June, 2024) The Japanese national anthem is a one-stanza song known as Kimigayo; its English translation approximates ‘The Reign of Our Emperor’. The worth of the anthem is in its adulation of limitless power: “May thy reign last long! May …

AS part of its expansion plan, Inlaks, a leading ICT infrastructure and systems integrator in Africa, showcased its products at the 3i Africa Summit held in Accra, Ghana. The summit, themed “Unleashing Africa’s FinTech and Digital Economic Potential,” served as a platform for crucial discussions on digital assets, fintech for …

LIKE we have always been told, criticism is a brilliant but lazy vocation. It is very easy and beautiful to sit on a fence and point out in very delicious prose all that is going wrong without as much as lifting a finger in firm and pragmatic contribution to national …

IT was the Buhari administration that fast tracked the impoverishment of Nigerians started by the dim witted Jonathan but Asiwaju Tinubu has completed the process with a systematic outflow of not well thought after policies mixed with cryptic nepotism and a huge sense of monarchical entitlement. Today we now have …

World’s leading financial publication confirms Moniepoint’s rapid revenue growth  Moniepoint Inc, parent company of Nigeria’s leading financial institutions, Moniepoint MFB and TeamApt Ltd has been ranked by the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organizations, recognized internationally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy as Africa’s fastest-growing financial institution. The …

AFTER a short break from the turbulence social media space, I bumped into a recent costs list of electronic transactions and others ancillary economic burdens reeled out and imposed on the long suffering Nigerian masses by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led-administration of APC. The anti- people’s policy of the APC …

BEYOND a seeming cosmetic spruce-up, the new Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, FMACCE, actually benefits from a fundamental vision tweak and structural re-conceptualization from which the impact achievements it has recorded within a year flow. A baby of the “Renewed Hope Agenda” and rigorous visioning by President …

(Monday Lines published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 6 May, 2024) A young taxi driver sat on the bonnet of his car some years ago thoroughly frustrated by Nigeria’s unending petrol mess. A television reporter asked him to speak on his experience in that filling station where he sat, …