Perspectives
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Structural reform and the importance of shared national responsibility, by Segun Showunmi
It is particularly concerning when elements of the political opposition otherwise presumed to understand the basic mechanics of public finance choose to privilege populist theatrics over analytical honesty. In periods of deep structural reform, international experience consistently shows that broad-based political support is essential, irrespective of partisan alignment. Macroeconomic stabilization and fiscal correction are not ideological luxuries; they are preconditions…
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A defining moment for Nigeria: Why staying the course matters, by Mohammed Idris
As we enter a new year, the questions that fill our markets, our homes, and our places of work are clear and urgent. They are questions about the price of food, about security in our communities, and about the direction in which our country is headed. It is the duty of this office, the Ministry of Information and National Orientation,…
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Tinubunomics and the arithmetic of illusion, by Tanimu Yakubu
A striking feature of Nigeria’s current economic debate is the enthusiasm with which huge numbers are circulated—and the casualness with which they are assembled. Tax collections are added to oil receipts; oil receipts are added again under customs or “subsidy savings”; borrowing is treated as income; and the resulting total is presented as proof of incompetence or theft. This is…
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A lost legacy: Nigerian art, cultural memory, and one family’s irreparable loss, by Kio Amachree
For more than fifty years, my father quietly assembled one of the most significant private collections of Nigerian and West African art ever held in a family home.Carvings. Bronzes. Masks. Ritual objects. Works that carried centuries of history, belief, and mastery. Chief Godfrey Amachree, Queen’s Counsel, was not a casual collector. He was one of the most respected private patrons…
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Distinguishing between federal government revenue and the Federation Account, by Temitope Ajayi
Public debate on government finances in Nigeria is once again clouded by confusion, little knowledge, and deliberate misrepresentation. At the centre of the current controversy is a misunderstanding of the distinction between total revenue generated by government agencies and the portion that actually belongs to the federal government. The confusion has been amplified by commentators who should know better and…
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Guns, silence and the sahel, by Titilope Anifowoshe
Africa has entered a dangerous season not merely of political instability, but of moral confusion. I remember a freezing winter evening in Tianjin, China, sitting in the cramped cubicle of a Ugandan friend, when I met a West African sister from Burkina Faso. What began as casual conversation turned into a two-hour ideological battle; democracy versus military rule, ECOWAS versus…
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Rivers: Why Fubara may fight again! By Ismail Omipidan
The return of Governor Siminalayi Fubara after the expiration of the six-month emergency rule has been widely applauded by many Nigerians. To avoid any unguarded utterances, the governor, on his return to the state, appeared to tactfully distance himself from his army of supporters who had thronged the Rivers State Government House on Thursday. Instead, he showed up yesterday, and…
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Fubara’s budget coup: A governor in contempt of democracy, by Olabode Opeseitan
There are infractions, and then there are insults. What happened in Rivers State on Friday was both. In a move that defies constitutional logic and democratic decency, the Rivers State Executive Council, through the Governor’s Special Adviser on Economic Matters, Prof. Peter Medee, announced the “approval” of a ₦1.854 trillion 2026 budget. Not a proposal to the legislature. Not a…
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Governor Seyi Makinde’s own goal, by Simbo Olorunfemi
From afar, Seyi Makinde strikes you as a gentleman. He comes across as an easygoing man, like someone ti’o lagbaja. He is one that you will look at and write off the possibility of a career in politics for. I wouldn’t have imagined him as one cut out for the hurly-burly of Nigerian politics, especially in a state like Oyo…
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Imprisoned by ambition : Peter Obi’s reckless misreading of politics and power, by Sunday Dare
If the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress was intended to detonate like a political bombshell, it failed spectacularly. What arrived instead was a dull thud—unremarkable, unsurprising, and terminally familiar. Nothing more. Nothing less. The script had been written long ago, recycled endlessly, and now—ironically—with this latest move, even that script has…
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