Kunle Gbenro nearly broke down in tears as he drew attention – in a nearly broken voice – to the nearly-endemic incidents of Nigerians jumping off the Third Mainland Bridge to their deaths in the Lagos Lagoon. Watching Anderson Cooper of CNN International Television talk about his older brother who jumped to his death from…
Maybe you’ve seen video footages of separatist Yoruba Nation agitators insisting that Bola Tinubu’s quest to be President of Nigeria via the 2023 presidential election ignores the interest of the Yoruba Nation. Like their other southern Nigerian compatriots, the Yoruba Nation agitators think the country that was commanded into existence by British colonial agent, Lord…
There is a conspiracy against the people of Nigeria by the political elite, who have fraudulently captured state authority and state violence and converted both to meet their own private existential needs only, without remorse or apologies. Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, christened the official fraud in Nigeria, “Authority Stealing,” a rebuke of the grand larceny…
If terrorists take over the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria’s biggest economic artery and busiest road in Africa, from the Nigerian state, or make it difficult to travel on it, a major setback will hit Nigeria’s import-oriented economy. The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is important to the distribution channels of the Nigerian economy. Indeed, if this road is shut…
First off, I say happy birthday to Prof Folasade Ogunsola, whose 64th birthday was two days ago, November 14. On November 11, 2022, she became first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos as the curtains were drawn on the colourful five-year tenure of populist Pastor-Prof Oluwatoyin “Odogwu” Ogundipe. It was also a fitting…
Malevolent scoundrels and incurable incompetents who run the Nigerian state are the reason why Nigeria always seems never able to have enough foreign exchange to finance its myriads of (sometimes unnecessary) imports and to strengthen its currency, the Naira. If it is true that about 500,000 is stolen from the 1,830,000 daily quota of petroleum…
Though President Muhammadu Buhari may be regarded as attempting to divert the public’s attention away from the general failure of his now lame-duck government, you must consider his thoughts about state governors, who hold funds due to the local governments in their states, hostage. The zing in the President’s accusation must have hit home so…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, under Godwin Emefiele, tried to compel those with so-called idle funds to set up brick-and-mortar enterprises, by crashing the interest payable on savings accounts, fixed deposits and Treasury Bills. This CBN policy is almost unmindful of the failure of the Minister with the longish title of Finance, Budget and National…
With the very elaborate electioneering timetable that he published, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, may have (literally) thrown caution away to embark on a nationwide campaign, even to states, including Borno, in the insurgency-infested North-East corridor of Nigeria. Other presidential candidates, including Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar of the…
Welcome to 2023, the year that is pregnant with the defining moment, May 29th, when the political and economic fortunes of Nigeria will be turned over to another President, who can make or mar the destiny of every Nigerian. What needs the urgent focus of the incoming President and his team is the reworking of…