Editorial: A Minister of Plunder – End Wike’s Brazen Lootocracy Now!
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike is not merely a disgrace to his office; he is a disgrace to the very idea of governance. Even by…
Editorial: NNPCL’s Kigali Scandal Is a National Disgrace
Just when Nigerians clung to a sliver of hope that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) would finally turn a corner, just when we were told a “new sheriff”…
Editorial: Time to Hire Mercenaries to fight Insecurity
Nigeria must choose results over national pride in the fight against terrorism and insecurity! As blood continues to soak the soil of Benue and other once-peaceful parts of Nigeria, the…
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Of a Truth, Where Are The Savings/Gains?
How else could anyone have described the “Subsidy is Gone” declaration of President Bola Tinubu at his inauguration in May 2023 than to say it was “a shock that came…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Paternalistic Stranglehold on Lagos is a Threat to Democracy
In a surreal theatre of modern Nigerian politics, Lagos State, supposedly the nation’s commercial nerve center, was reduced to the scene of a medieval court, where a kneeling governor and…
Editorial: Tinubu’s National Honors Is a National Disgrace
In a democracy teetering on the edge of elite capture and hollow symbolism, President Bola Tinubu’s administration has managed to plumb new depths with its careless, almost farcical handling of…
Editorial: Nigeria’s Children Are Dying While the Nation Sleeps
This year’s Children’s Day, while nations across the globe lift their young in celebration, Nigeria drowns her children in a sea of neglect, betrayal, and unpardonable cruelty. Under the mocking…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Borrowing Spree Is Mortgaging Nigeria’s Future
Nigeria is being sold by the pound, and the auctioneer sits smugly in Aso Rock. Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, Nigeria has plunged headlong into…
Editorial: Nigeria’s Shameful Attempt to Silence Senator Natasha
In a democracy, truth should hold power. The judicial process should serve justice, not be weaponized against those who dare to speak up. But in Nigeria today, the Federal Government…
Missing Fuel Subsidy Savings: World Bank, NNPCL and FG’s Game of Deceit
The nation’s apex oil concern, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) allegedly remitted only half of the fuel subsidy savings thus far and the World Bank is the one…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Forest Guards – A National Security Farce
In the long, blood-soaked tragedy that is Nigeria’s war against terror, President Bola Tinubu’s latest solution has arrived – not with the thunder of resolve or the force of strategic…
Editorial: JAMB,s Leadership Must Resign or Be Fired
The scandal surrounding the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination is not just an embarrassment – it is a national disgrace. What unfolded over the last few weeks…
Coming soon: Compulsory voting for APC
Mandatory voting, the idea that a citizen must cast a ballot in an election, is not new. Of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 181 members, about 20 currently practice some form of…
Editorial: Monumental Rot and Corruption in Nigeria’s Road Sector
The recent disclosure by the Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms. Patience Oniha, that Nigeria would soon be returning to the bond market to raise another N300…
Bill Gates drafts a glowing epitaph
Last week, US philanthropist Bill Gates celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Gates Foundation with a stunning announcement: he will double his charitable giving to $200 billion over the next…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Nigeria- A Rich Nation of Poor People
In a nation blessed with oil, gas, fertile land, and a youthful population brimming with potential, the current administration of President Bola Tinubu has somehow managed to perform the unthinkable:…
Editorial: Okowa and the Limits of Stomach Politics
In the annals of political treachery, few tales are as disheartening as that of “Sin-ator” Ifeanyi Okowa. Once a beacon of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he now stands as…
Editorial: Insecurity – Tinubu’s Empty Sound and Fury
Here we are again – summoned to the tired theater of presidential declarations, where the orchestra of failure plays yet another verse. President Bola Tinubu, draped in the regalia of…
Editorial: The Rotten Core of Nigeria’s Oil Sector
By any measure, Nigeria should be an economic powerhouse. Endowed with vast reserves of Bonny Light crude; one of the most prized grades of oil globally for its low sulphur…
Editorial: The 2027 Opposition Coalition Mirage
As the political clock of Nigeria inches inexorably toward February 20, 2027; precisely one year, ten months, and a day away, the murmurs of opposition defiance against the ruling All…