FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2
By Dele Sobowale The Benin-Agbor-Asaba highway to sudden death symbolizes everything wrong with how the Federal Government and Minister David Umahi have been managing Nigerian roads. The horrors of that road are being replicated everywhere – as will be demonstrated shortly. Umahi obviously is the wrong man for one of the most important assignments. Nigeria’s […]
What does The Big Picture mean to DSO? By Okoh Aihe
The news last week that the Federal Government is seemingly finalising plans to put the Digital Switchover, DSO, on an accelerator that can immediately take it to about 10 million people, was very elevating and, for me, it marks a good turn for the Tinubu administration. The story which has been in gestation but only broke […]
President Tinubu’s mid-term score, by Rotimi Fasan
The earnestness with which many opposition politicians and the disaffected conclave of commentariat (not the actual mass of hungry Nigerians that are more with the real but mundane issues of bread and butter) looked forward to the mid-term performance evaluation of the Bola Tinubu administration gave the impression that he has completed his first if not […]
The sociology of the “Northern Question” in Nigeria: A fundamental reasoning on some salient issues(4), by Usman Sark
“To a mind capable of reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances”– Edward Gibbon The challenges, threats, risks and dangers that every Nigerian faces or experiences today are not categorised according to their emphatic relationships with the tribe, ethnic group, religious belief, region of origin, state or local government […]
How 2027 can be won and lost, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“Trouble will come, but you do not have to give it a chair to sit on.”- African proverb
Nigeria: 730 days later, by Dakuku Peterside
Two years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the savannah, the creeks, and the sprawling megacities since the last electoral hoopla promised a national rebirth. We now stand midway between ballots, yet conversation in Abuja’s corridors is drifting toward 2027 slogans when democracy must earn […]
