For the first time since Independence in 1960, Nigeria’s economy expanded slower than its population between 2015 and 2020. Nigeria’s GDP per capita declined by 0.02 per cent, 4.16 per cent and 1.78 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it declined by 0.68, 0.38 and 4.57 per cent respectively. Nigeria’s annual GDP growth rate also …

Whether the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a substantive one or a “placeholder” – to deploy a new addition to Nigeria’s electoral lexicon – will be decided by the courts in the land. He was declared winner of last 25th February presidential election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. Two of the …

The founder of Omega Power Ministries, Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, on Friday, slumped at a yet-to-identified airport over an undisclosed illness. The apostle, well known for his philanthropic gestures, has been in the news recently, one of which was sending the Happy Boys abroad after the Chicken Republic, where they worked as security personnel, sacked them for dancing while on …

Godwin James is a renowned architect and an unrepentant critic of the extravagant lifestyle of Nigerian politicians. For him, the Nigerian democracy is a government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians, at the expense of the long suffering Nigerians. Though his brother, Idorenyin James is a politician and one of the governorship aspirants of the Peoples …

It doesn’t make sense to weigh tragedies on a scale. How do you measure them? Leo Tolstoy got it right in Anna Karenina when he said whereas all happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And so indeed it was on June 14 when it was reported that a boat carrying 750 migrants had capsized near …

The allegations – or do we call them the road to prosperity – that human rights activist and legal luminary, Comrade Femi Falana has forcefully pushed into the public domain in the past one or two weeks are too weighty to be ignored by the Bola Tinubu administration. It is like you have a problem and someone says not just …

The world’s natural reserves are fast diminishing at a worrisome speed, almost two times quicker than mother earth can recreate. This figure is projected to be 2.3 times what is sustainable by 2050. Yearly, 50 million tonnes of e-waste contribute to this, which is tantamount to the size of all commercial aircraft ever made. Hence, achieving a sustainable environment is …

In less than one month in office, Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has been all over the three senatorial districts to inspect various projects. What stands out though is not merely the tour but the mind with which he embarked on it. He revealed his heart at the inspection of the Ibuzor Road, Asaba when he said his …

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims crowded Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Tuesday, the climax of a potentially record-breaking hajj pilgrimage held in the fierce summer heat. As dawn broke, groups of worshippers recited Koran verses on the rocky rise, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have given his final sermon. The ritual is the high point of the …

On Tuesday, 13th June, 2023, I was at the University of Ibadan where I delivered a public lecture titled “The task before Nigeria’s 16th Head of State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu” at the 31st anniversary of the Resurrection Morning Star Society, Chapel of Resurrection of the university. Following is an abridged version of the lecture: “Tinubu is an enigma. To borrow …