It was just that the effect of it was very minimal compared to the amount we are told went into sustaining the oil subsidy bogey. The best part of the subsidy money went into the pockets and bank accounts of shadowy players in the oil sector, including oil marketers that are too quick to make Nigerians groan by their Shylock-like ways. 

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Monday 21st August swore into office 45 ministers after an eleventh-hour reassignment of portfolios to four of them. Gboyega Oyetola of the Ministry of Transport, Abubakar Momoh of the Ministry of Youth and Bunmi Tunji-Ojo of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy were respectively reassigned to the Ministry of Marine […]

THIS  column last week supported the overwhelming views of Nigerians that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration should have nothing to do with any kind of direct military intervention in the affairs of Niger under the Abdourahamane Tchiani-led junta. That rejection of force in the restoration of democratic order in Niger was based on the pragmatic […]

THE deadline given by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to the military junta that recently usurped power in Niger to restore the democratic order in that country or be forcefully removed has come and gone. But as far as many Nigerians are concerned, that deadline should have been dead on arrival and […]

Everyone and every organisation with a stake in the country ought to rise to the occasion and engage the present policy makers on the way forward; this is not the time for unnecessary posturing and exhibition of bias towards particular candidates in the name of activism