Editorial: Tinubu’s Clemency Fiasco
In the theatre of power, nothing corrodes credibility faster than the appearance of confusion. What Nigeria witnessed over the last two weeks; the release, backlash, and hurried withdrawal of President…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal Paradox
Nigeria’s oil sector is a study in paradox, and the Tinubu administration appears content to watch the contradiction unfold. More than a year after the removal of fuel subsidies and…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Ignominious Sacking of Service Chiefs
When a Commander-in-Chief dismisses his nation’s top military leadership, the country deserves clarity, not cryptic announcements. Yet once again, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has chosen secrecy over statesmanship, opacity over…
Editorial: The Proposed Election Calendar Shift to November 2026
In a bold, perhaps audacious, move, Nigeria’s National Assembly has proposed shifting the 2027 presidential and gubernatorial elections from the traditional February–March window back six months to November 2026. The…
Editorial: Nigeria’s Pernicious Plague of Political Defections
By every measure of democratic principle, the recent defections of elected politicians from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are nothing short of a…
Editorial: Nigeria has the lowest life expectancy in the world!
There are statistics that wound the conscience of a nation. And then there are those that indict it irrevocably. Nigeria, once lauded as the “Giant of Africa,” now holds a…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal Paradox
Nigeria’s oil sector is a study in paradox, and the Tinubu administration appears content to watch the contradiction unfold. More than a year after the removal of fuel subsidies and…
Dangote Refinery, Oil Workers’ Unions and Nigeria’s Struggle for Accountability – By Ifeanyi Izeze
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the troubling contradictions in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, particularly when it comes to the role of the oil workers’unions. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)…
Editorial: Foreign Airlines are Fleecing Nigerians
Nigeria has become the most expensive airspace in Africa – an open-air bazaar where foreign airlines fleece passengers with impunity, while the government of President Bola Tinubu stands idly by.…
Editorial: Tinubu must tackle the Rot in Nigeria’s Extractive Industry
There comes a moment when a nation must either confront its decay or perish beneath it. For Nigeria, that moment has arrived; buried not in the oil wells of the…
Mixed Metaphors: “Happy new month” – By Sonala Olumhense
“Happy New Year!” It always has a joyful ring to it. On New Year’s Day, and perhaps for a short while after, it is heard and shared around the world.…
Waiting for the next INEC chairman – By Kunle Somorin
Before, during, and after every election cycle in Nigeria, the role of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission has remained shrouded in ambiguity. He does not emerge from…
Dangote’s Refinery And Nigeria’s Labour Union Dilemma -By Abdulrauf Aliyu
Nigeria has always lived with the drama of oil. From the first gush of crude in Oloibiri to the unending fuel queues that mark our daily lives, oil is less…
Editorial: Nigeria needs a President at home, not a tourist abroad.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s latest working vacation – departing Abuja on September 4, 2025, for France (followed by plans to visit the UK), only to return ahead of schedule –…
The Dangote-NUPENG trial by fire – By Folorunso Adisa
Fuel scarcity in Nigeria is no mere inconvenience; it is a national ritual of dread. For the average Nigerian, the words “fuel strike” summon images of serpentine queues, swollen prices,…
Rivers After Ibok-Ette Ibas: What Next? – By Reuben Abati
On Thursday, 18 September 2025, the six months state of emergency declared in Rivers State on 18 March would have expired and this has led to high expectations among the…
Editorial: Akpabio’s War on Natasha and the Senate of Shame
In the hallowed chamber of Nigeria’s Senate, where laws should be shaped in reason and justice, an ugly spectacle is unfolding. It is not the debate of ideas, not the…
Editorial: Tinubu’s “2025 revenue target met” and matters arising
Draped in the glow of self-congratulation, President Bola Tinubu recently declared that Nigeria had already met its 2025 revenue target. “We have met our revenue target for the whole year,…
Editorial: Nigeria’s Female Inmates on Death Row – A National Shame
In the darkness of Nigeria’s death-row cells, the nation’s conscience lies shackled. Here, 73 women – our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives – await the hangman’s noose, while society wraps itself…
AfDB And Adesina, The Optimist-in-Chief – By Reuben Abati
On Sunday, August 31, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (2011 – 2015), completed his maximum ten-year tenure (five years each per election) as President…