I was unable to write this column last week owing to an attack of conjunctivitis, which left my eyes swollen, reddened and oozing thick, mucoid discharge. It also gave me fever, and I was unable to read. It was so bad that I couldn’t even read text messages on my phones. People who saw me […]

“No politician can sit on an issue if you make it hot enough.” — Saul Alinsky(1909-1972 WELL, the subsidy removal issue is clearly a very hot one for all Nigerians, and if I may add, irrespective of status. This is because costs have not just risen, they have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in a space […]

THERE is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are in for a very hard grind, occasioned by the precipitous removal of subsidy on petrol by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his inaugural speech on May 29. The effects on life and living have been direct and instantaneous, sending prices of just about everything through the […]

THE news broke a few days ago that runway lights on domestic runway 18/36L of the Murtala Muhammad Airport, in Lagos, got stolen and it left me with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. Runway 18/36L of the Lagos airport had been shut down for maintenance, and the runway lights had been […]

I do not think Akume said the right things to the Chinese delegation that visited him, and also do not think that teaching Chinese language in Nigerian schools is the way to reciprocate Chinese goodwill

I am of the bent that if the APC cohorts had not browbeaten Jonathan into continuing with subsidy in 2012, the pains then, would be lesser than what we are facing today

After the May 29 swearing-in of the President and state governors, those who won elections are now trying to form their governments. In the presidency, some special advisers and assistants have been appointed, while some governors have equally appointed advisers and assistants and secretaries to the state governments. While we await cabinet lists at the […]

We were warned that petrol subsidy would not last forever and would have to go someday. It has now gone. President Bola Tinubu chose to extinguish subsidy in his inaugural address on May 29. As we all came to see, the president had barely left the Eagle Square venue of his inauguration when the petrol […]

THE Friday May 19 issue of this column had the headline: Nigeria Air and Buhari’s ministers of magic. Essentially, that edition dwelt on avowals by the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, to the effect that the planned national carrier, Nigeria Air

By Adekunle Adekoya A few weeks ago, on April 7, I discussed issues around petrol subsidy in a piece titled The Magic of Scamsidy. I took the position that the subsidy policy has been a scam perpetrated by the power elite at the expense of ignorant, non-discerning Nigerians. This is because subsidy was meant to […]