Columns culled from The Punch Newspaper website
An American newspaper columnist, George Will, derisively described former United States President Donald Trump as King Lear because Trump gave his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, appointment into his White House. Ivanka was an advisor and Director of the Office of Economic Initiatives in her father’s White House, while Jared, Ivanka’s husband, was…
Those who say they are keeping all eyes on the judiciary because of the cases instituted by the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, who are respectively the presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, at the Presidential Election Petition Court, are acting like kids whose candies…
You may have read that portion of “You Must Set Forth At Dawn,” where its author, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, rued the reality of he, a Yoruba man, whose country’s lingua franca is the English language, found himself (almost) a stranger among his Yoruba kinsmen, in another country. So, it is not really that…
An old reality in Nigerian politics just dawned on southern Nigerians, namely; that some Nigerians of Northern Nigerian extraction are Nigeriens by their bloodlines, temperament, orientation, culture, religion, language, and history. And they are beginning to look like fifth columnists, citizens within a country that is at war, who feed and render assistance to the…
You may have viewed the video of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Aminu Wali, as he threw President Bola Tinubu under the bus for carrying the Economic Community of West African States’ load of the military putsch in Niger Republic on the head of…
While nothing is wrong with inviting Foreign Direct Investors to come into Nigeria to help deepen the performance of the Nigerian economy, it is also important to advocate that the same level of encouragement should be extended to domestic investors. When a government focuses too much on inviting Foreign Direct Investors (who come with relatively…
If you ever complained about irregular supply of electricity to the office of the vendor who topped up your pre-paid electricity meter card, and you were referred to the local electricity distribution company, whose staff told you that they could only supply what the Transmission Company of Nigeria supplied to them, you would have just…
The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, told the audience at the 2023 BusinessDay Forum, “For now, Nigeria is developing too slowly and well below its potential.” He suggested that, “The prosperous future (that Nigeria yearns for) can only be assured by strongly supporting the private sector to unlock wealth that will…
If it was President Bola Tinubu who asked Senate President Godswill Akpabio to test the waters by telling the Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, and the Ekiti State caucus of the National Assembly that the Federal Government would be carrying out an upward review of salaries, that suggests he may have misdiagnosed Nigeria’s economic problem….
President Bola Tinubu’s N8000 freebie (for six months), to the 12 million so-called vulnerable Nigerian families is a regrettable and “underwhelming” reversal of gains. And it is difficult to understand why he chose that path. Not only connoisseurs of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Afrobeat music will understand that the expression, “Overtake Don Overtake Overtake,” somewhat akin to…