By Bosun Adetiloye With exactly a week to go in his presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari on May 22, 2023, inaugurated the Dangote Refinery, a 650,000 barrels per day facility reputed to be the largest Single-Train petroleum refinery in the world. There was pomp and circumstance as the refinery reportedly came on board, but as it […]

By Dr. Adaorah Enyi  Nigeria’s healthcare sector has long faced the challenge of shortage of professionals, a problem that is now exacerbated by the decade-long wave of brain drain that has rocked the sector. It has now become the norm for Nigeria-trained health workers to start the process of seeking greener pastures even before they […]

Nigeria should establish a consistent boxing squad instead of selecting team members at the last minute for international events

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of President Bola Tinubu, recently urged market women to advise their children against participating in the August hunger protest

By Godknows Igali On Friday July 13, 1934, contrasting events unfolded around the world. Far away in Europe, Adolf Hitler launched the “Night of Long Knives” in Germany, causing great global unease and rapple. But in British West Africa, a bouncing baby boy, later named Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, was born in Abeokuta, in the […]

By OLUDAYO TADE IT was Habeeb Okikiola also known as ‘Portable’, who released a single to respond to the call by his supporters that he should join the #EndBadGovernance protest that hit the streets across the country on August 1, 2024. In the single track, titled ‘Gba wire’, Portable informs his fans that ‘poor man’s thinking […]

The recent unearthing of a drone in Mali’s northeastern region has ignited a firestorm of controversy, drawing attention to the potential influence of foreign powers in West Africa’s volatile security landscape.

With the passage of the new national minimum wage into an Act and the subsequent assent by the President last week, many would think that the storm is over

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After one particularly impactful session, Ife looked at herself in the mirror and saw a new perspective. “I realized that seeking help isn’t a sign of weakness but a testament to my resilience,” she reflects

By CHARLES ONUNAIJU It is obvious that our routine or normal politics will not save Nigeria because the stranglehold of vicious vested interests is so pervasive  and deeply entrenched. The overwhelming strangle-hold of vested special interests in the country is manifested in their enormous power to vitiate  any rational policy initiative and  bring it to nothing […]

By MABEL ADINYA ADE DEAR President Bola Tinubu, I write in response to your speech to the nation after many Nigerians took to the street on August 1 protesting against bad governance. The notice of this protest was given more than one week before its commencement. On your part, you saw the need for consultation and […]

By Philip Obazee Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, in his recent interview with Arise News TV, said that each successive Nigerian President since 1999 is getting worse in delivering the “universal dividend” of democratic governance to the citizens. My initial reaction to that claim was that the increasing impatience of Nigerians with respect to what democracy should […]

By Arc Kabir Ibrahim Nigeria has abundant mineral resources, high human capital, large cultivable and irrigable land as well as an array of talented people just like Brazil, China, and India to mention a few success stories. These countries were in similar circumstances not too long ago but it is very clear that they are […]

By Arabinrin Aderonke Femi Otedola’s endorsement of the windfall tax shows its potential to promote economic fairness and stability in Nigeria. Mr. Otedola, who has long been an influential voice in the country’s financial sector, argues that the windfall tax could be a game-changer for Nigeria’s economy. The windfall tax offers an opportunity to redirect […]