Opinion

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

They repeat the same motions, mouth the same sterile and predictable defenses, and hurl the same insults at critics.

Tinubu’s june 12 fall: Humor, karma, compassion

Although the president is obviously ravaged by the infirmities of old age and possibly ill health, his fall obviously wasn’t triggered by any of these.

Why minimum wage is a bad idea

Apart from bureaucracy and corruption, the main challenge for Nigeria has been the tendency, especially among states, the main power blocs, to prioritise rent and politics over creativity and competition.

“New” national anthem is national self-debasement

That instantiates a phenomenon that social anthropologists call cultural cringe.

One year of Tinubu: The man, the myth and the mediocrity

Plot all of these together, and you come up with a solid picture of a man whose administration lacks coordination and takes decisions based on what their hormones (and some spirits, of course) dictate.

Sanusi Lamido and Kano’s royal ding-dong

Well, after destroying properties worth billions of naira and restoring Sanusi as emir all in the bid to get even with Ganduje, I hope the government will now get down to actually governing and improving the lives of the people who elected it.

Nigeria’s economic apartheid in electricity consumption

I’m not sure there’s any modern country on earth where electricity is as precarious, as insufficient, as unreliable, and as socially stratified as it is in Nigeria.

The 2019 Tinubu speech we ignored is biting back

It’s defensible to suggest the broadening of the tax base of an economy, but not even the most ruthless, unfeeling, sadistic, and misanthropic tyrant would openly advocate the mass pauperization of the people as an economic policy.

House of Reps’ legislative banditry against universities

The background to this alleged legislative brigandage is that in January this year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved the disbursement of N683,429,268,402.64 to public higher education institutions under the TETFund scheme.
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