On March 17, 2023, former president Muhammadu Buhari, signed a historic amendment bill, moving electricity from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list. The amendment makes it legally possible for state governments to make laws to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in their states. It was a turning moment for Nigeria because electricity being […]

Presidential Elections in Nigeria form a major part of our underdevelopment due to circumstances imposed on the people by those who want to continue to keep them down. Perhaps, this is time to do away with the Four – Year double limit. President Bola Tinubu spent barely one year in office when campaigns for a […]

It’s a famous story in Christendom. Palestine, a vassal territory under the Roman Emperor Caesar, was obliged to pay tributes and taxes to Rome. A radical teacher in the territory, Jesus, taught things that the teachers of the law and local administrators in Palestine were uncomfortable with. After setting traps for him but missing, they pitted […]

DURING the work week ending today, that infamous Bretton Woods institution, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, was in doublespeak regarding the economy of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly mentioned countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, and my dear country ( I have no other!), Nigeria.  Urging Nigeria and the other countries to rethink implementation strategies of […]

THE first one thousand days of the Russo-Ukrainian War was on Tuesday, November 19, marked in Europe like an anniversary rather than a day of reflection. The European Commission draped its building with the Ukrainian flag, while the European Parliament sat to stirring speeches, including a standing ovation for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. Those hailing Zelensky […]

I was in London when Kemi Badenoch, a British politician of Nigerian extraction was running against a white man called Robert Jenrick in a bid to become leader of the British Conservative party. At the same time and on the other side of the Atlantic, Kamala Harris, an American politician of Indian and Jamaican extraction, was running […]

Ordinarily, the innocuous question – who speaks for President Bola Tinubu – should be a non-issue because it ought to be a given. But these are no ordinary times. In Tinubu’s bumbling emi l’okan dynasty, where the end justifies every means and jejune politics trumps governance, absurdity is the norm. Such intrigues, in the warped estimation […]

Dear reader, I’m touching base to know if you have been able to apply any aspects of the suggestions I last shared in part one of the series, ‘Master the Art of Following-Up through Professional Persistence’. It’d be great if you have, and I hope it is working out well for you. This week’s article is […]

SHORTLY before the 2023 presidential election, I wrote a piece titled “Yoruba ronu: A Tinubu presidency would tarnish your race” (Vanguard, February 16, 2023). The premise of that thoughtful and, in my view, patriotic intervention was threefold.  First, Bola Tinubu’s miasmic past was the antithesis of the honour-signalling ‘omoluabi’ ethos that Yorubas claim define them. His […]

AT a recent gathering of so-called stakeholders of the Nigerian economy at the Lagos Business School, a Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Catherine Patillo, remarked that the reforms made in the last 18 months of the Bola Tinubu administration are not working. This claim was made with neither sympathy nor concern for both […]