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Kevin McCarthy and the travails of democracy

By Dakuku Peterside Too many unusual events in politics point to the fact that democracy is under threat. A few events, some recent and others very current, will demonstrate this point. The first is Donald Trump, possibly the most controversial US president, who set democracy back when he refused to concede to President Joe Biden and ...

Ogun Tribunal: The day after the verdict

Nigeria at 63: The rationality of Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal after 53 years

Cornucopia: Governor Soludo and his apostles

The one and only relevant question is whether or not CSU confirmed Tinubu as their alumnus

War of maneuver, state cabinets and NASS

National strike: Interrogating Tinubu’s subsidy removal rationale

By Jimoh Olorede, Ph.D. Before its official removal in May 2023 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, fuel subsidy regime had been in Nigeria for more than 53 years, having begun in the 1970s. However, following the promulgation of the Price Control Act in 1977, it (fuel subsidy) became institutionalized. By implication, the promulgation made it ...

Dayo Adeyeye made no utterances against Tinubu that could cost him Ministerial position

By Rotimi Makinde With no shred of doubt, Senator Dayo Adeyeye is the National Coordinator of South West Agenda, SWAGA, a pro-Tinubu political pressure group and under his esteemed leadership, the group established a link between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s candidacy and the late Chief MKO Abiola’s outing 30 years ago making history to repeat itself ...

As Ogun moves to preserve Abeokuta-Sagamu road

By Funmi Branco When in January 2022 President Muhammadu Buhari visited Ogun State to commission projects, he could not help exulting in the sheer beauty of the roads constructed by the Dapo-Abiodun led government in Ogun State. He said: “I arrived early today and commission the 14Km Ijebu-Ode, Mojoda Epe road which is reconstructed to ...

Have Yoruba Obas lost their mojo?

By Bola Bolawole The Yoruba traditional institution and the Obas and Chiefs that perch on it are no longer what they used to be in terms of effective power and royal – even regal – bearing and esteem. In those days, an Oba is someone who sits (perches) atop everything (O ba l’ori ohungbogbo). He ...

Home and abroad, Tinubu’s Nigeria is taking its rightful place

By Mohammed Idris, Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation Having hit the ground running at home, with a series of very bold and unprecedented reform decisions, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone ahead to seize the opportunity offered by the month of September 2023, to make a grand entry onto the global stage. In ...

Strengthening public health system resilience in Nigeria

Building resilient public health systems is crucial for effective response to emergencies and preparing for future challenges. Thirty-seven years old, Mr Anthony Yohanna, a plumber, lives at Iche near Kagarko, a town on Abuja-Kaduna highway. Like many families in the area, his family heavily relies on subsistence farming for livelihood, because they live in a ...

DATKEM Plaza Saga: No Individual is above the law

By Femi Ogbonnikan Emotion has been running wild in social and conventional media platforms following the partial demolition of DATKEM Plaza, Ijebu-Ode, belonging to the wife of former governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, Yeye Olufunke. Two issues have been involved in the unfounded insinuations surrounding the misinterpretation of the action of the Ogun State ...

What the Minister of Tourism must know

By Ememmaria Offiong It is no longer news that the 16th President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) has appointed new ministers, establishing new Ministries in the process. We now have a Ministry for Tourism, headed by Mrs. Lola Ade-John. A Lagosian by birth, the new Minister holds a first degree ...

100 Days: The untold stories of Tinubu’s leadership acts

By Tunde Rahman In the last one-week since President Bola Tinubu clocked 100 days in office, commentators and analysts, political observers and politicians have busied themselves, dissecting the President’s performance in office, particularly his major decisions and policy options. Many have also commented on the achievements recorded and the areas that require improvements. The newspapers ...

War of maneuver, state cabinet and NASS

By Isaac Olusesi The dividing line between one and significant others as well as the limits one can violate must be the defining factor in Nigeria’s Constitution 5th Alteration (No. 45) Act that forces the submittal of the names of Minister, Commissioner-nominees, respectively to the National Assembly (NASS) and State Houses of Assembly for confirmation ...

Inside Buhari’s cattle farm

By Femi Adesina I spent three days in Daura, Katsina State, about a fortnight ago, visiting with our former President and my principal, Muhammadu Buhari. I got more than an inkling into how he spends his days in retirement in that modest abode and verdant community. Even out of power and office, Buhari is in ...

Accountability deficit and the transparency question

By Dakuku Peterside In August 2023, the federal, state, and local governments shared 1.26 trillion Naira from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), the highest in our history. In July, they shared N966 billion, and from June till date, FAAC has distributed almost 3 trillion Naira. By Nigerian standards, this can be described as jumbo allocations. ...

Ogun LG funds allocation: The facts and figures as against fallacy

By Funmi Branco Lovers of democracy and good governance must be troubled by the crisis in Ogun State over local government allocations. When the chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area, Hon. Wale Adedayo, accused the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, of diverting local government (LG) funds, there were not a few Nigerians who felt ...

APC: Positive or Negative Peace in Osun

By Isaac Olusesi The jury is out, the decision is taken and the news of the current gale of suspensions and expulsions of one hundred and ten listed high heeled leaders and members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State upon allegations of anti-party activities levelled against them, was jolly endorsed by the cross ...

President Tinubu, Rivers APC and party support

By Concerned APC Rivers Youths Youths, under the aegis of Concerned Youths of Rivers State APC are calling on President Bola Tinubu not to abandon those who have worked hard for the party in favour of those who never wanted anything good for the APC. The group on Monday, September 4, 2023, took to the ...

AbdulRazaq’s legacy of inclusion in Kwara

By Rafiu Ajakaye Kwara made a very significant history on Monday, September 4, but it got buried in the deluge of media reportage that expectedly attended the swearing in of the cabinet members. Not many people paid attention to the swearing of two persons living with disabilities (PLWD) — Ayanwale Peter Kayode and Abdullahi Wahab ...

Of Wale Adedayo and media bias against Governor Abiodun

...Re: The wind that blew Dapo Abiodun’s rump By Kayode Akinmade Taking cognisance of the privations to which Nigerians have been subjected over the years, there is a tendency in the land to assume the worst of leaders. Guilty or not, governors face the guillotine, condemned to hell by our elite commentariat and that is ...

Keypoints at NBA-SBL 17th annual business conference

By Adewale Kupoluyi The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) recently held its 17th Annual International Business Law Conference at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos State themed, ‘The Nigerian Business Landscape: Priorities of Law, Policy and Regulation’, which was aimed at exploring recent trends in the country’s business law environment ...

To Oyetola, other ministers…

A level-playing ground, with detest for camarilla or kitchen cabinet in a democracy, has been recommended to the presidency, as Nigeria inaugurated a new Executive Council. Making the recommendation, Dr Thomas Olaleye Ogungbangbe has remarked that the new Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria possess managerial ingenuity and commitment to effectively harness rational and ...

Can Tinubu administration tame job racketeering in MDAs?

Nigeria has one of the highest unemployment rates in Africa. According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria's unemployment rate stood at 33.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2020 while the rate of unemployment among youths was even higher, 42.5 per cent. The NBS further says that as at the time the ...

Responding to the Niger Coup: Lessons in diplomacy for Nigeria and ECOWAS

On the 26th of July 2023, the world was confronted with yet another distressing piece of news: the successful military coup in Africa’s Niger, marking the fourth such incident in a span of just two years, following similar events in Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso. The Nigerien presidential guard took action by removing President Mohamed ...

ECOWAS vs Niger Republic: Is peace the opposite of war? Part II

By Dr Jimoh Ibrahim CFR The events we saw from the first, second and ongoing Cold War suggest that war is ingrained in all of us, yes, there may be no scientific proof or empirical evidence, but it is not the case that when science speaks, the truth comes out! One scientific theory, after clinical ...

Osun Poly: The sense and nonsense of Governor Adeleke’s action

By Ismail Omipidan The saying that one cannot crown a clown and expect the clown to behave like a king appears apt in situating the happenings in Osun in recent times. In this era of digital and strategic communications, the contents coming from Osun on a daily basis, especially as they relate to the actions ...

Alas, insecurity is in our backyard, come to our rescue.

Joel Oladele, Abuja Recently, I put up a call through to my mother and after our usual greetings and mother-son prayers, she said to me in our dialect “Be praying for us o.” The tone was suspicious and I had to ask her the need for the prayer request. “Gunmen killed someone in Sabaja yesterday ...

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