Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
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 […]
