Articles and Opinion
We offer independent views about all areas of the society to inform the public.
The Minimum Wage Issue: Numbers vs Value by Dakuku Peterside
The issue of minimum wage or salary increase or by whatever nomenclature is a complicated policy issue. The wage increase is neither good...
The Dying Public School by Dakuku Peterside
There has been no remarkable uproar on the public school collapse in Nigeria, affecting primary, secondary, and university education. Our leaders do not...
World Malaria Day: Why the War against Malaria matters
By Paul Ejime It is another World Malaria Day (WMD) today, one year after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended two candidate anti-malaria...
IBB makes a strong case for ECOMOG journalists
by Paul Ejime NIGERIA’s former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, who was instrumental in the formation of ECOMOG, the regional Ceasefire Monitoring Group...
The Yoruba Nation “secessionists” of Ibadan by Reuben Abati
Arrested Yoruba Nation agitators On Saturday, 13 April, a group of 18 masked persons dressed in army camouflage, armed with rifles, charms and...
With CDCU’s Delivery Tracker, Tinubu gives voice to otherwise voiceless by Oriyomi Anthony
Although the President Bola Tinubu government’s quest to convince Nigerians that it will make things better is still hanging in the balance, an...
Electricity tariffs: The limits of shock – By Dakuku Peterside
In Nigeria, many policies that are supposed to catalyse economic growth end up making things worse and complicate matters for the citizen for...
The Parliamentary System Debate By Dakuku Peterside
The debate over which system of government is most appropriate for a multi-ethnic and geographically diverse Nigeria has suddenly resurfaced. This time, it...
TINUBU, BEWARE OF NYESOM WIKE
By Richard Akinnola Impetuous, garrulous, flippant, compulsively and deliriously narcissistic, that succinctly encapsulates the Nyesom Wike persona. A study of the political trajectory...
The Morality Question by Dakuku Peterside
There is unarguably a progressive value erosion in our country. This is happening increasingly, and there is no hope of it abating soon....
The States And The Blackout Nation
Many Nigerians believe that restructuring the country or devolving powers from the centre to the sub-nationals is the silver bullet that will solve...
Food security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku Peterside
Against the run of play, Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State ruffled feathers with his speech at the 2023 annual Leadership Newspaper...
High Cost of Government, Low Outcome by Dakuku Peterside
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken both symbolic and structural actions to demonstrate his belief that the current high cost of government is...
MACKY SALL’S DANGEROUS GAME WITH TERANGA LIONS
By Paul Ejime In a catastrophic end to his third-term project, President Macky Sall announced in July 2023 that he would not seek...
Growing helplessness of Nigerians over insecurity by Dakuku Peterside
The impact of insecurity in Nigeria is significant, encompassing substantial losses in terms of lives, economic setbacks, and the emergence of humanitarian crises....
Pipeline Contracts And Ethnic Blackmail by Tajudeen Suleiman
It’s a habitual fancy in most multi-ethnic and multi-religious countries like Nigeria, that unscrupulous individuals or groups would seek to take advantage of...
