IN an interview last Sunday with one of the major national newspapers, Major-General Henry Ayoola (retd) probably spoke the mind of most Nigerians. The voice of the people, they say, is the voice of God. Ayoola said: “Our politicians are not concerned about making the system work…. It is obvious that they are only concerned […]

THE Senate and the House of Representatives now appear more pro-people in some of their recent actions. The big, pleasant surprise came from the Senate whose President, Ahmed Lawan, had acted as an unapologetic rubberstamp of the Presidency. The Senate’s recent indictment of the Police, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes […]

THE President of the European Union, Charles Michel, correctly captured the relationship between humans and the planet Earth which is our home. He said at the just-concluded United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, that we have been at war with nature, and it is time for the war to stop to enable us rehabilitate the Earth […]

IT is said that if a candidate is allowed to mark his own examination papers, he will give himself straight “A’s”. Politicians are fond of giving themselves pass marks no matter how abysmal their performance is. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is fond of making sweeping promises is also very adept at giving himself unmerited praise […]

UNKNOWN to many Nigerians, there is a greater evil silently ravaging the country now than the prevailing insecurity – the killing of innocent people, including family members, for money rituals. Why are cases of this scourge rising every day? How did we get here, and what are the solutions? Only recently (and it has almost […]

UNLESS sanity prevails, the nation might be plunged into another round of strikes by university staff unions, the second this year. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, after waiting in vain for nine months for the Federal Government to fulfill its agreements with the Union, has served a three-week strike notice. Also, the Joint […]

AMONG the many sayings attributed to the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, there is one that best captures the totality of who he was: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Last week, when the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, officially banned single-use plastic among its staff members, it was probably following the footsteps of the 400-staff members of the United Nations Climate Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, who chose to endure the heat instead of enjoying the ozone-depleting, energy-guzzling comfort of air-conditioners. At Bonn, it […]

SEPTEMBER last year, the House of Representatives, acting on a motion moved by one of its members, Ibrahim Isiaka (APC, Ogun), decided to set up a special committee to investigate why the “prices of food items, commodities, goods and services have skyrocketed by as much as 100 per cent in many parts of Nigeria in […]

In the frenzy of the 2021 Yuletide and 2022 Appropriation Bill legislative actions, the Federal Government had quietly rolled out the National Development Plan 2021-2025. This is the latest economic blueprint of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, even as it begins to wind down in 17 months time. Nigeria has had over a dozen development […]