Lekan Sote
Tinubu must get it right
Nigerians love to play ethnic politics, mixed with religion. If you check the pattern of votes, even from the First Republic, you will observe that every presidential (or First Republic Prime Minister...
24th April 2024
Getting new industrialisation model
If Nigeria does not devolve more political power to the sub-national governments, economic initiatives to the Organised Private Sector and drastically review its industrialisation model so that indust...
17th April 2024
Electricity sector’s penkelemesi
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, should use the most obvious silver bullet solution to sort out Nigeria’s electricity sector’s penkelemesi, which his grandfather may have described as a pec...
10th April 2024
The street is not smiling
“Ebi npa wa,” or, we are starving, is the emblem of want, deprivation, probably famine. It is an expression of the desperation and fear that Nigerians confront in these days of 31.70 per cent head...
3rd April 2024
Sell petroleum in naira
Recently the naira surprisingly experienced a gain in value. But it was only because demand for the dollar inexplicably dipped. Imagine if buyers of Nigeria’s petroleum must first buy the naira in o...
27th March 2024
‘Minister of Other Government Affairs’
By acting in ways incongruous with their schedules, some public office holders demonstrate a lack of focus. If they do, they may be deliberately creating, for themselves, opportunities to spend public...
20th March 2024
Sanwo-Olu’s sachet rental plan
When marketers of fast-moving consumer goods see that buyers cannot buy their products in big sizes, they introduce the sachet-sized pack that is easy to pay for because of the lower cash outlay. Thou...
13th March 2024
Cartels and the rest of us
Maybe you’ve seen television footage or newspaper reports of President Bola Tinubu meeting with Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group and AbdulSamad Rabiu of BUA Group, leading members of the cement cartel...
6th March 2024
Raising Governance Standards
Those who think the Yoruba will upturn the applecart of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration seem not to know the Yoruba very well. The Yoruba do not indulge mediocrity, not even from their ow...
28th February 2024
Why a caged bird sings
Following is how Wikipedia describes the theme of Maya Angelou’s autobiographical novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: “Those without freedom suffer through imprisonment. Not being able to be o...
21st February 2024
Economy’s low hanging fruits
Because the government of President Bola Tinubu is slow in responding to the frightening insecurity and spiralling economy of Nigeria, suggestions on how to turn things around should be offered withou...
14th February 2024
Did DAWN die with Famakinwa?
The boastful people of southwestern Nigeria, who insist that their region is the most prosperous and the most secure in Nigeria, must now ask themselves, “Quo vadis?” Their pride of place doesn’...
7th February 2024
Is Senator Ali Ndume for real?
Did Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno State South Senatorial District, indeed threaten that there would be political implications if the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Minister of...
31st January 2024
Dump this painful forex regime
The British colonisers and Bretton Woods institutions–the World Bank and International Monetary Fund- that introduced the current foreign exchange regime know that the template bodes no good for the...
24th January 2024
Coming to equity with clean hands
The highwayman maxim, “He who comes to equity must come with clean hands,” may not exactly fit the alleged corruption in the government of President Bola Tinubu, but it draws attention to the need...
17th January 2024
Why is money scarce again?
This question is necessary because Nigerians are wondering why a government that came with a can-do posture is acting clueless the same way the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan acted. ...
10th January 2024
Middle belters must find their voice
Yet again, Nigeria’s Middle Belt suffered another crude and devastating blow of terrorism. Nigerians in more than 20 communities in the Bokkos, Mangu (home of the state governor), and Barkin-Ladi in...
3rd January 2024
Speeding up the e-passport
After praising the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, for ensuring that Nigerian citizens get their passports within a short space of time, a friend, who is also an immigration lawyer, added th...
27th December 2023
Negatives of military governments
The call by President Bola Tinubu for West Africans to shun coups d’etat and anti-democratic tendencies led to this attempt to trace the cause of the failure of democratic governance in Nigeria and ...
20th December 2023
Profligacy of 2024 Budget
Even former President Shehu Shagari, whose government is widely regarded as not being a prudent manager of resources, attempted to tame government expenditure by introducing what he described as auste...
13th December 2023
State capture of judiciary
If you have read “Great Expectations” written by English author Charles Dickens, you would have seen the rotten underbelly of the English judicial system that was experienced by Pip, the protagoni...
6th December 2023
Reviewing the world economic model
The newly elected President of Argentina, Javier Milei, promises to smash orthodox economic models in Argentina. He vowed to cancel a slew of government ministries, departments and agencies, including...
29th November 2023
The road to local automobiles
Nigerians must be encouraged by the rollout of the 2000th car off the assembly plant of Chinese automobile manufacturers, GAC Motors, by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, some weeks ago. B...
22nd November 2023
Senators who earn multiple salaries
Anyone with a good conscience will be thrown into wonderment at the truth after reading the appeal by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and other senators wh...
15th November 2023
Stop Nigeria as a trading post
Now that it appears that the government of President Bola Tinubu is ready to make good on its promise to rev up the economy, it is apt to encourage him to look at growing the economy from within. Whil...
8th November 2023
It’s time to move Nigeria on
Clearly, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, respectively the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party in the 2023 gene...
1st November 2023
Students fighting the wrong war
Despite the seeming lull in the agitation by students of public tertiary institutions in Nigeria over the hike in tuition fees, after the removal of fuel subsidy and unification of the foreign exchang...
25th October 2023
The king’s mother is a witch
If the following is jumbled, it’s because the protagonists and Nigeria’s mainstream media aren’t doing enough to unravel the political smorgasbord. As the social media is muddling up the story, ...
18th October 2023
Need for development plans
It’s a good thing that the Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, has announced a strategic blueprint stating how his ministry intends to meet its “digital eco...
11th October 2023
The real waste in governance
As Nigeria marked its 63rd independence anniversary a few days ago, one other thing that came to mind mitigating against the progress of the country is a wilful, if not statutorily-approved, waste of ...
4th October 2023
Subject-kings of the Nigerian state
It appears that the brouhaha that visited the intransigence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo against the culture of the Yoruba, and the disgrace that he meted out to some Yoruba Obas at a state c...
27th September 2023