Perspectives
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Self-help and the road to Uromi: Matters arising-By Kunle Osisanya
Section 14 (2b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended stipulates that security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. Despite this lofty declaration, Nigerians are daily inundated with reports of bandits appropriating, administering territory and economic resources as well as kidnapping for ransom. Others include livestock rustling, farmers-herders clashes,…
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OBJ: Democracy or democrazy in danger? By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir
Our collective selective amnesia makes it possible for characters from yesteryears of leadership to pontificate and assume dispositions of nobility and morality; appearing to distance themselves from the uncharitable, undemocratic, and immoral acts they committed while in positions of leadership. Had they, the moral standing or uprightness, they would have behaved or acted differently. Today they are gesticulating hard, trying…
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Reclaiming NNPC: A necessary reset to rescue Nigeria’s oil industry from systemic rot, by Bala Mohammed
The recent overhaul of the NNPC Limited board and management by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not merely an administrative reshuffle—it is a decisive intervention in the national interest, aimed at rescuing the country’s most strategic public enterprise from systemic rot and institutional capture. The necessity of these appointments stems from the deeply troubling legacy of the Mele Kyari-led management,…
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Reshuffling of NNPC’s board: Reflection of a sensitive and patriotic president at work, by Kola Amzat
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Nigerians woke up to a thunderbolt of news-the sword of Damocles had finally fell on NNPC Board, a development that swept away Mele Kyari, the dominant NNPCL former Group Managing Director (GMD), the former Chairman, Pius Akinyelure, as well as other 6 or 7 members of the Board, in one fell swoop. President Bola Tinubu,…
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My 32-year experience with Lagos traffic, by Emeka Oparah
First off, let me express my sincerest sympathy to all who were snookered by the infamous traffic that happened to Lagosians on the Island, yesterday. Unfortunately, I gather the traffic gridlock is unrelenting and has notoriously spilled over to this new day. After spending most of the evening (the night, on some cases), people still went to work today-and some…
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How Trump’s Tarrifs will damage America more, by Robb Smith
Time to spit some truth. Tariffs can’t possibly make this $5 injection-molded spatula made in Vietnam or China a level-playing field. Why? Because the $2/hr Vietnam worker or $4/hr Chinese worker literally can’t be made equal to the $35/hr US worker through a tariff; the math simply doesn’t work. And China already uses the world’s best automation, so the US…
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Commonwealth should lead the discussion on slavery reparations, by Mohammed Idris
As a new secretary-general assumes leadership of the Commonwealth, it seems de rigueur in some circles to dismiss the organisation as a relic of a bygone era. To speak of it with any seriousness places one in a social pillory, the face upturned for pelting with the fruits of modernity. Still, counterarguments exist. Nations would not be lining up to…
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Tinubu, Dangote Refinery and Mele Kyari’s sack, by Yemi Adebowale
The Dangote Refinery crashed the price of petrol multiple times between December 2024 and March 2025. Then, the big one came early in March when it crashed the price to N860 per litre (Lagos) and to between N870 and N890 in other parts of Nigeria, forcing its major competitor, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to do the same. The…
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Natasha and her Osun goddess, by Lasisi Olagunju
A short four minutes, thirty-three seconds video of what looks like Kogi senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, worshipping at the Osun shrine in Osogbo is trending. If she is truly the one in the video, then her traducers better back off before the deluge comes with its fury. You do not beat the child of the goddess and get its applause. Professor…
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Balling with Bola Tinubu at 73, by Lasisi Olagunju
The Nigerian presidency is an energising elixir. It has proven to be very effective in breathing life into dry bones. To old creaky engines, it gives deep cleaning; it replaces worn parts and upgrades the lubrication system. Olusegun Obasanjo went in there and got transformed from an imprisoned stork to a clean-shaven ladies’ egret. The Balogun Owu has since refused…
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