And Tinubu Blinked, by Emmanuel Aziken
For too long, President Bola Tinubu and officials of his administration have celebrated the removal of petrol subsidy as perhaps the defining demonstration of his courage in governance. To his supporters, it was evidence of a president prepared to take decisions his predecessors could not fully implement. Among Tinubu’s four predecessors in the Fourth Republic […]
The Need for National Political Reform Conference (7), by Afe Babalola
THE SECOND ALTERNATIVE: RESTRUCTURING THE FEDERATING UNITS We may still retain the presidential system with restructuring of the federating units. The federating units can be zoned instead of the present states. These zones should be increased from the present 6 to about 8 to accommodate more zones of common origin. The zones shall retain the present 36 […]
Let the NCC Board get down to work, by Okoh Aihe
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said last week that the new Board has been cleared by the Nigerian Senate to formally commence work at the Commission. The development brought a whiff of good news because the organisation has endured life for over two years under this administration without a Board, quite in defiance of the Nigerian […]
The ever-lingering Benue-Plateau crisis (4), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative on the Benue-Plateau crisis and the several means of finding amicable solutions to it. Benue and Plateau states have produced to date, the highest number of military officers, yet, their states have been terrorized by a tiny army of Fulani herdsmen for the past sixty years also. To the […]
2027: Done deals, dumb deals, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“ A snake cannot bite you unless it is close to you.”— African proverb There is something eerily unprecedented about the current circumstances of political parties in Nigeria. In a way, they are the dream of the speculator and a nightmare for politicians looking for firm grounds to stand on as the contests for mandates in 2027 […]
FIX FOOD FIRST AND FAST OR FORGET IT
By Dele Sobowale The great Indian leader and liberator made that remark before he was assassinated in 1948 at a time when his country, now divided into at least three nations, suffered from food scarcity worse than Nigeria is experiencing now. Certainly, it can also be said that there are millions of people in Nigeria today, […]
