Perspectives
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Kogi State governorship: Why aggrieved APC members must unite behind Ododo’s candidacy, By Abubakar Sidiq Usman
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been the dominant force in Nigerian politics since its formation in 2013. The party’s victory in the 2015 presidential election, as well as winning the majority of legislative seats in the National and State Assemblies, and again in the 2019 General Election, proves its dominance. However, the unity of purpose that brought together…
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Opinion: Investigating Nigeria’s subsidy removal quagmire, Dangote’s refinery debacle, By Audu
In the midst of dwindling revenues and skyrocketing subsidy costs, Nigeria has taken a bold step by removing fuel subsidies, igniting controversy and unrest among its population. Despite the opposition’s claims that subsidy removal will disproportionately affect the poor, the government’s redirection of funds towards crucial sectors such as health and education paints a promising picture for Nigeria’s future. The…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Can Naira exchange for N200 to $1 again?
By Oyedeji Kayode I doubt if that is possible. Exchange rate cannot be fixed by fiat as Buhari tried to do and wrecked the economy. It is basically a function of demand and supply and there is never a quick fix. It is easy for a currency to crash but extremely difficult to make it rise. The process of building…
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ANALYSIS: Why northern Nigerians prefer to study in Sudan
By Gimba Kakanda Sudan isn’t the collapsible banana republic you assumed it is. It’s not just what you see on CNN. It’s had over a century of health professions education, long before Nigeria had its first medical school, and they have an evolved medical education system that attracts undergraduate and postgraduate medical students from across the world. They had had…
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Memo to the President-elect, By Olawale Olaleye
With the 2023 elections wrapped up two weekends ago, following the concluding supplementary polls across 24 states, in addition to the governorship exercises in Kebbi and Adamawa States, all is now set for the formal handover of power on May 29, from the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari to the incoming President-elect Bola Tinubu. Although the elections have generally raised some…
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Next President of the Senate, By Yemi Adebowale
The list of aspirants for the position of President of the Senate in the 10th Assembly commencing in June keeps growing. As at the last count,10 senators were already jostling for the plum job. I’m not sorry to say that most of the aspirants are in the race for selfish reasons. Many of them have just been making noise with…
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33 years after: How we executed the Orkar coup, By Victor Tolofari
One of the key actors of the attempted coup, Captain Tolofari, who escaped into exile after the coup failed, later put his thoughts together in a book titled “Exploitation and instability in Nigeria: The Orkar coup in perspective”, which was published in 2004, detailing the ideological pinning of the putsch and how it was executed. Here is a brief excerpt:…
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The Aishatu Binani’s twaddle, By Yemi Adebowale
It was repulsive watching the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in Adamawa State, Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru delivering an acceptance speech last Sunday after she was illegally declared the governor-elect of the state by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Ari. She said her election as the first female governor in the country would encourage other women to participate actively in…
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Mefinomics, Obigotry and issues of forgiveness, By Kunle Awosiyan
Section 31 of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007 has enabled Godwin Emefiele’s Anchors Borrowers programme to establish a linkage between the apex bank and small scale farmers to produce foods for us in commercial quantity. Emefiele’s pyramid of rice has since disappeared, leaving us with stony local rice at expensive price, a bit lower than the “banned” imported…
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Reflection on Tinubu’s difficult victory, By Bolaji Adebiyi
For many practical politicians, politics is a serious business, from which only the diligent can make bountiful profits. It involves painstaking strategic calculations backed by cold tactical manoeuvres to achieve a successful outcome. Many years ago, the great sage, Obafemi Awolowo, scorned his political opponents who had accused him of intellectual arrogance. The difference between them and him, he lectured…
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