Understanding Pay As You Earn Under Nigeria’s New Tax Laws Monday morning arrived like every other.  Before sunrise, Kunle was already navigating the Lagos traffic to his office in Victoria Island. At about the same time, Fatima, a nurse in Kano, was preparing for another demanding shift at the hospital. In Port Harcourt, Chika, a […]

August 4, 2026, His Excellency, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, Delta State Governor 1999 -2007, turned 68. Far from the maddening times, and after all the battles of yore, Ibori the quintessential rider on the storm, is living the life of an Elder Statesman and Family Patriarch. The clash of battle has quietened.  From near and far, people […]

I love this Ada Owere I Movement ably piloted by Dr. Betty – Anyanwu Akeredolu, former First Lady of Ondo State who like, Hillary Clinton before her, is digging deeper into politics. My chat with the multitasking Activist revealed the very strong connection. She said : “My political role model has always been Hillary Clinton. I […]

Last week, I complained about the arrogance displayed by Dave Umahi, the Minister of Works, who has a lot of questions to answer around the mysterious death in his compound of an attractive young female nurse. This week, I will focus on another example of APC arrogance. Following a visit to the presidential villa by the […]

Data is good, but it often doesn’t tell the whole story. Data cannot capture the extent of our efforts to get a prepaid meter at my workplace in Abuja after we were disconnected from the grid in February. We’re still off-grid. Our meter misery mocks any statistics you may find on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission […]

Gianni Infantino, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, FIFA President who stole into office about a dozen years ago on the back of a coup against Sepp Blatter, may be on his way out. He has become like an orphan caught with his hand in the till. The 2026 World Cup had been quite successful. It […]

I REALLY don’t think there is anybody living in this country at the moment that is satisfied with the state of affairs. Don’t let me bore you — everyone knows where it’s pinching hardest — whether in the cost of transportation, or the risen and rising cost of food, or near-unaffordable accommodation, sky-high cost of […]

Listening to President Bola Tinubu’s response to the plea of Nigerian Catholic Bishops that he should make the yoke of Nigerians lighter, I couldn’t help but remember the Biblical story of King Rehoboam in 2 Chronicles 10:1-15. After the death of King Solomon, Rehoboam, his son, went to Shechem to be crowned king and the whole […]

Next year’s presidential election will be fought, won and lost in Nigeria. But Atiku Abubakar is fighting it in America. Determined as a locked jaw, Atiku, who is seeking the presidency for the seventh time, desperately wants to unseat President Bola Tinubu and replace him as Nigeria’s leader next year. Yet, instead of strategically deploying his […]

I’ll never forget the moment Amina stood before her classmates for the first time. A refugee from South Sudan who had spent three years in a Ugandan settlement camp and was now a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at Pan-Atlantic University, she clutched her notes so tightly the paper trembled. English was her third language, and public speaking […]

“Salus populi suprema lex esto” (“The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”), Roman maxim The first part of this series reflected upon the life, character and formative influences that shaped Senator (Dr.) Abdullahi Adamu, CON, Turakin Keffi, into one of the foremost public figures of his generation. It suggested that the enduring measure […]

This is one question that has refused to take leave of me at the moment, and the answers don’t look as simple as the question. The reason is that technology grows so fast, sometimes more than the speed of light, hyperbolically, that we are either left behind or simply fail to notice the failings in a […]

The storm that has followed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria’s visit to President Bola Tinubu would certainly not have occurred had the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, not taken to the airwaves in the form of a television interview he granted Arise News Prime Time anchor Charles Aniagolu to not only speak about […]

As political campaigns officially begin this August, Nigerians are once again confronted with the defining question that has shaped every election since the return to democratic rule in 1999: will the votes truly count? While political parties mobilise supporters, unveil manifestos and traverse the country in search of votes, millions of Nigerians remain concerned not only […]

This week continues the series on insecurity in Nigeria May I remind you that I took and subscribed to the oath of office during which I pledged that to the best of my ability I would preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. In view of this, any effort to steer the path of constitutionality is not […]