Perspectives
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These activists are posers, not persuaded, by Tomiwa Owolade
A defaced painting of a former British statesman. A vandalised portrait of the King. Orange powder sprayed over an ancient monument. Holiday flights delayed. An investment firm with a tiny share in businesses associated with fossil fuels pressured to stop funding two of the biggest literary festivals in the country. All of this has happened in the past few months,…
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Lagos-Badagry Expressway and its remarkable impact on lives, by Uche Nnadozie
On a visit to one of the towns along the Badagry Expressway, the remarkable impact of the reconstructed highway could not escape this writer, having passed the same route some years ago when it was for – lack of a better word – a mess! The community, which is after Agbara, was almost impassable some years ago as passengers were made…
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Nigeria Customs under Adeniyi, by Adeyinka Adedeji
It is 133 years since the Nigeria Custosm Service was established. A colonial construct, it shares a lot with some of its peers, like the Nigeria Police, the Nigeria Army, the Correctional Service, and several other public institutions. However, arguably more than any of the others, it has had to deal with serial changes: changes in its enabling laws, changes…
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President Tinubu and Nigeria’s rising global profile. by Fredrick Nwabufo
Nigeria’s rising global profile is not the conjuring of luck or the divination and contrivance of some dissociated variables. It is the result of purposeful, diligent, and experienced leadership. The workings of President Bola Tinubu’s leadership. Nigeria has always mattered in the chat rooms and chopping tables of global discourse — as pertaining Africa. It has always been significant as…
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Bayo Onanuga in the eye of a mentee, by Desmond Utomwen
My first face-to-face meeting with Mr Bayo Onanuga was in 2005 in Lagos. He asked: “Who are you, how may I help you?” “I am Desmond, sir.” “Oh, the man from Abuja, you’re so young?” “Thank you, sir,” I responded as he waved me to a seat. I told him that I was asked to come to Lagos and he…
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Fubara’s effrontery to Presidency, by Kola Amzat
For ages, Rivers state have always been a hotspot of political upheavals and uproar. The reason for this is not far-fetched. Rivers, amongst the states in the Niger Delta Region prodigiously endowed with oil & gas resources, is home to the largest concentration of Oil Companies, their headquarters and administrative apparatus, with resources of money and huge contracts always flow…
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Minimum wage review: My takeaway, by Babatunde Fashola
During my participation at the Covenant Nation’s The Platform event, on June 12, 2024 I promised to provide a reasoned contribution to the conversation on minimum wage. Here it is. The extant law on minimum wage is the National Minimum Wage Act 2019, which came into force on the 18th April 2019; and it provides in Section 3 (4) that:…
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Is El-Rufai’s glittering political career going in flames? By Kola Amzat
Since the turn of the 4th Republic in 1999, it’s an undisputable fact that Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been a dominant force in Nigerian politics. During ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo regime, he was firmly in charge of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the then very powerful federal government Agency saddled with the responsibility of disposing all the unwanted federal government…
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Bukola Saraki and his thugs’ perennial disrespect for the Emir of Ilorin, by Farook Kamaldeen
When last year, the former senate president, Bukola Saraki, and his strategically positioned thugs turned Ilorin’s central Eid into a ground for a campaign of vilification and subsequently halted the Emir from delivering his annual speech, I thought he would withdraw those sponsored cheerers in this year’s Eid, given the backlash that followed the apparent disrespect. But no, he watched…
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Gov. AbdulRazaq and triumph over social media urchins, by Bashir Adigun
One former Military Head of State once doffed his hat for a senior of his who was also former President of Nigeria over his uncommon ingenuity at managing criticism from the press. Reflecting on the role of the press in democracy over 300 years ago, a one-time President of America, Thomas Jefferson (1787) concludes: “The basis of our governments being…
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