Jide Ojo
Tinubu, delay in restructuring could be dangerous
The National Assembly has set in motion committees to further alter the 1999 Constitution. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on February 14, 2024, constituted a 45-member Committee on Constit...
24th April 2024
Urgent need to tame Yoruba nation agitation
For some time now, a group of dissidents have been gathering under the platform of Yoruba Nation Agitators. On Sunday, May 28, 2023, people suspected of being members of the Yoruba Nation agitators re...
17th April 2024
West African CSOs agenda-setting meeting for democracy
On April 4, 2024, civil society organisations on the platform of the West Africa Civil Society Institute with funding support from the Ford Foundation met in Lagos to find a lasting solution to the th...
10th April 2024
Tinubu and Nigeria’s health sector
Health is wealth so says a popular adage. Out of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, at least two of them are health-related. Goal 3 says, “Good health and well-being” while Goal ...
3rd April 2024
Tinubu, Nigeria needs stable electricity supply
It is very disheartening that in 2024, the provision of a stable electricity supply remains a political campaign rhetoric. Nigeria is a laughing stock of the global community as a country whose citiz...
27th March 2024
Executive and legislature are complicit in budget padding
Since Senator Abdul Ningi, (PDP, Bauchi Central) blew the whistle on budget padding by the National Assembly through his BBC interview on Saturday, March 9, 2024, many Nigerians have been gaslighting ...
20th March 2024
Is Nigeria’s security challenge intractable?
Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution says security and welfare of citizens shall be the primary purpose of the government. Quite unfortunately, successive administrations have failed to meet up w...
13th March 2024
Hunger pangs in Nigeria and the silent rebellion
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Woolf Nigerians are angry with their government at all levels. According to the ace Nigerian novelist, Buchi Emech...
6th March 2024
Matters arising from implementation of Oronsaye report
Since news broke about the Federal Executive Council’s approval of the implementation of Steve Oronsaye report on the merger and acquisition of Ministries Department and Agencies on Monday, Febr...
28th February 2024
Now that there is consensus on state police
I have been a staunch advocate of state police despite the concerns raised in some quarters about the propensity of governors to grossly abuse the security outfit if created. Even the rank of Nigerian...
21st February 2024
The best way to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day
St. Valentine’s Day, otherwise known as Lovers’ Day, has come a long way. According to history.com, the Catholic Church recognises at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, al...
14th February 2024
Memorable visit to Centre for Yoruba Culture and History
I was in Lagos, the State of Aquatic Splendour, last weekend from February 1 – 4, 2024. A non-governmental organisation, Peace and Development Project, had organised a three-day capacity-building re...
7th February 2024
Fake degree epidemic, student loans and education matters
With the funding support of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, Umar Audu, a reporter with the Daily Nigerian newspaper carried out a...
31st January 2024
Now that Dangote refinery has commenced production
The heart-warming news broke on Friday, January 12, 2024. The tale is that $18.5bn Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company, which was commissioned on Monday, May 22, 2023, has finally commenced pro...
24th January 2024
Imperative of structural reduction in cost of governance
On January 9, 2024, President Bola Tinubu announced the reduction of his cost of travel by 60 per cent. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this while ...
17th January 2024
Is Betta Edu a scapegoat or sacred cow?
Former President Muhammadu Buhari created the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on August 21, 2019. However, after President Bola Tinubu took over in...
10th January 2024
From Tinubu’s speech to 2024 budget
“For the new year to yield all its good benefits to us as individuals and collectively as a people we must be prepared to play our part. The job of building a prosperous nation is not the job of the...
3rd January 2024
Synopsis of Nigeria, Africa and world in 2023
It’s about 96 hours to the end of 2023. A lot of remarkable things happened in the outgoing year. The popular axiom says charity begins at home. Let me start the chronicle with a hearty congratulato...
27th December 2023
Governor Fubara, you’re on your own
On Monday, December 18, 2023, a signed agreement to resolve the lingering political crisis in Rivers State surfaced in the media. It was an eight-point resolution reached at the end of about three hou...
20th December 2023
Osimhen, Oshoala, Nnadozie: Africa’s worthy champions!
Stand up for the African champions! What a befitting Christmas and End-of-the-Year gifts to Nigerians! Last Monday, December 11, 2023, I felt proud to be a Nigerian. My compatriots have once again r...
13th December 2023
Nigeria’s aviation sector stinks, can Keyamo clean up?
Transportation is very key to human existence. In the days of yore, aside from trekking, many people travel by riding on animals such as horses, donkeys, and camels. When technology came, vehicles, tr...
6th December 2023
Urgent need to reform Nigeria’s politics and elections
Nigeria conducted her seventh general elections in this Fourth Republic and three off-cycle governorship elections in 2023. As the year winds down, there is a lot of doubt in the minds of Nigerians wh...
29th November 2023
Financial recklessness of Nigeria’s political leaders
Politics ordinarily should be a call to serve. So do politicians tell us during campaigns. They claim they want to serve us. However, the opposite is the case. The main attraction to politics in Niger...
22nd November 2023
Musings on Imo, Kogi, Bayelsa off-cycle elections
Unknown to many, it’s the centenary celebrations of Nigeria’s electoral democracy. The first general election in this country took place in Lagos and Calabar on September 20, 1923, after the comin...
15th November 2023
Killing Nigerians softly
The title of this piece is an adaptation of a popular song by the Fugees titled, “Killing Me Softly with His Song.” Health is wealth is a common cliché. And it is said that a healthy nation is a ...
8th November 2023
What is Tinubu’s anti-corruption agenda?
Last week, I was in the ancient city of Kano for the fourth edition of the Annual Kano Social Influencers Summit, #Kansis23. I had attended the inaugural edition of the summit four years ago and was p...
1st November 2023
Review of National Social Investment Programme
“The council approved for the establishment of the Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund to actually be put together under a governing board…..the implementation of that humanitarian and...
25th October 2023
Imperative of democracy and good governance in Nigeria
If you ask an average Nigerian what he or she wants, you’re likely going to hear a near unanimous response of better life, social amenities, security, employment opportunities and more money to take...
18th October 2023
Death in search of the Golden Fleece
I like to read for pleasure in my spare time. In the last few weeks, I read two books, back to back, from my library. Incidentally, both books have the same theme which is the irregular migration of o...
11th October 2023
Contributions of 'third sector' to Nigeria’s development
Nigeria celebrated her 63rd independence anniversary last Sunday, October 1, 2023 in a sombre manner. The celebration was low-key, devoid of the usual merriment, gala night and fanfare at the Eagle...
4th October 2023
Let’s do more to help the poor live
There is no gainsaying that times are hard. The rising cost of living as a result of the removal of subsidy on petrol in Nigeria has worsened an already bad situation. Many more people have become beg...
27th September 2023