2027: Atiku’s kitchen-sink strategy betrays crude populism, by Olu Fasan
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is adopting a kitchen-sink approach to next year’s presidential race. A “kitchen-sink approach” involves throwing everything at a problem regardless of what works or doesn’t. That’s precisely what Atiku is doing by promising to tackle every conceivable vexed issue if he becomes president next […]
Is there a backstory to Wale Edun’s exit? By Azu Ishiekwene
The short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. The online newspaper Premium Times published multiple likely versions in a single story. The biggest issue, according […]
Re-election bid: Why is Tinubu scared of winning fair and square? By Olu Fasan
By now, everyone knows President Bola Tinubu’s approach to capturing power. In his own words, it is: “At all costs, fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it”. That was how he put it at a pre-election event in London in December 2022. Many would swear that he deployed this buccaneering strategy to […]
The million-Naira mistake: Why 30 seconds of clarity can save you hours of regret, by Ruth Oji
Dear readers, Let me tell you about Chidi. Chidi works for a logistics company in Lagos. Last month, his manager sent him a quick message: “We need those containers moved to the warehouse by Friday.” Simple enough, right? Chidi assumed his manager meant the company’s main warehouse in Apapa. He organized the trucks, coordinated with […]
The ADC babel is falling apart, by Rotimi Fasan
In less than six weeks from now, precisely at the end of May, the various political parties jostling to unseat the governing APC-led administration would have produced their presidential candidates. May, going by the timeline provided by INEC, is the cutoff date for the parties to hold their primaries. Then the crowded field of presidential aspirants […]
Running Nigeria into the ground, by Usman Sarki
“The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”— Frédéric Bastiat There are moments in the life of a nation when decline can no longer be explained away by rhetoric, postponed by political slogans, concealed beneath the fanfare of official optimism or justified by false patriotism. Nigeria […]
