Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
Tinubu and the Mokwa flood disaster
Over the past fortnight, the people of Mokwa and surrounding settlements in Niger State have been engulfed in grief and misery after the flood disaster that descended on them on May 28, 2025, just as Nigerians prepared to mark the second anniversary of the current administration. The flood, which cut right through the agrarian community […]
Osun State local govt debacle
The debacle surrounding the local government system in Osun State is another reflection of the challenges faced by the country’s governance framework. The local government secretariats have remained unoccupied since the February 22, 2025, local government elections in the state. Governor Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke during the swearing-in of the elected officials asked them to stay […]
Sallah greetings to Muslims
Nigerian Muslims today, Friday June 6, 2025, join the rest of the Muslim Ummah to celebrate yet another Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim festival which falls on the 10th day of Dhul Hijjah, the last month of the Muslim calendar. This Islamic festival commemorates the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to follow Allah’s command to sacrifice […]
NAFDAC and drug marketers
In apparent bid to perform its statutory function of sanitising the drug markets, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, shut major pharmaceutical and cosmetics markets in Idumota, Lagos; Ariaria, Aba; and Ogbogwu drug market, Onitsha, back on February 10, 2025. According to NAFDAC’s head of Enugu Zonal Operations, Martin Iluyomade, […]
ECOWAS’ dwindling fortunes at 50
Chairman of Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Authority of Heads of State and Governments, President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, last week returned to the birthplace of the regional body – the National Institute for International Affairs, NIIA, in Victoria Island, Lagos, to lead the ceremonial marking of its 50 birthday. ECOWAS is clocking […]
Tinubu’s mid-term self-assessment
To mark his second year anniversary on Thursday, May 29, 2025, President Bola Tinubu rolled out his government’s assessment of its performance to Nigerians and critical partners. Mindful of the rapidly unfolding atmosphere towards the 2027 elections, Tinubu expectedly gave himself thumbs up. Out of the three-point agenda that his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, had spelt […]
Addressing our water crisis
It is a common sight in major cities of Nigeria to see young men pushing wheel barrows stocked with gallons in search of water as access to potable water remains a major challenge for majority of city dwellers. Most city dwellers today rely on private water vendors and boreholes to meet their domestic needs. Those […]
“Cash transfers”: $800m down the drain
The revelation by the World Bank that the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfer programme did not reach millions of Nigerians in need of urgent economic relief further confirmed public sentiment on the desirability of the programme. In response to the deepening hardship being faced by Nigerians after the abrupt removal of the petrol subsidy and […]
Tinubu’s two years in the saddle
Two years have passed since President Bola Tinubu mounted the saddle amidst a cloud of doubt over the fidelity of the election that brought him to power. It is now mid-term. As the nation prepares for 2027, how has he fared? During the campaigns, Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, […]
Much ado about Tinubu’s Vatican visit
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal, recently went on Arise Television to criticise President Bola Tinubu’s attendance of the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Rome. He described it as an “insult” to Nigerian Christians for several reasons. He said Tinubu’s leadership of the Nigerian delegation and […]
Curing the chaos of our Local Government system
Almost a year ago on July 11, 2024, the Supreme Court bowed to the wishes of the Executive when its ruling foisted the implementation of Local Government “autonomy” throughout the country. Among others, it ruled that only democratically elected Local Government Councils should be paid their Federal revenues, and that funds accruing to them should […]
Failed “emergency rule” on food insecurity
On July 13, 2023, newly installed President Bola Tinubu sent his spokesman then, Dele Alake, to announce a “state of emergency” on food insecurity. Almost two years later, the regime has failed to deliver on the lofty goals behind the measure. Shortly after, food inflation skyrocketed to a record high of about 34 per cent amidst […]
Tinubu’s Armed Forest Guards
The recent announcement by the Presidency of President Bola Tinubu’s intention to establish a national Armed Forest Guard, AFG, was received with mixed feelings, and for obvious reasons. The unveiling of such an all-important security outfit by a presidential aide, Sunday Dare, on his “X” handle, did not garb the programme with enough seriousness of […]
No to mandatory voting
A Bill to amend the Electoral Act 2022 to force all eligible Nigerians to vote has just passed the second reading in the House of Representatives. If it becomes law, an eligible Nigerian who fails to vote could pay a fine of N100,000, go to jail for six months or both. The Bill, which enraged […]
Lamido’s call to “close June 12”
The call by an elder statesman, Alhaji Sule Lamido, for the proper and full closure of the “June 12” phenomenon in Nigeria’s history deserves immediate, positive response. The former Member of the House of Representatives, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Governor of Jigawa State, also urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently take steps to pay […]
