Nigeria’s growing begging economy, By Farooq Kperogi As the economy bites harder and end-of-year festivities rev up, the routine “tax” on middle-class Nigerians (the few of...
Tinubu: Ade Ori Okin befits KWAM 1, not Awujale crown Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, December 19, 2025) Blood is thicker than water,...
Tinubu’s new tax regime as sovereignty for sale, By Farooq Kperogi For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed...
Disaster Looms: Otedola Bridge Must Be Demolished and Rebuilt Immediately — Expert A project management expert and scholar, Dr. ‘Jubreel Odukoya, has urged the Lagos State...
A troubling message from Guinea-Bissau, by Azu Ishiekwene None of the three Guineas is thriving, but in Guinea-Bissau, the country that sits on Africa’s map like a...
Siyan Oyeweso: Lessons in virtue and vanity Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, December 5, 2025) H-o-r-r-o-r!? The lamp has gone out in the...
Sixty-fifth birthday fireworks: Obasanjo versus Fayose (II) By BOLANLE BOLAWOLE Last week we started with the spat between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Ekiti State...
How Nigeria Turned U.S. Pressure into Strategic Advantage – Sadiq Mohammed If diplomacy were a chessboard, Nigeria has just moved from being the piece under attack...
Fayose-Obasanjo: Two eboras dragging same pair of trousers (2) Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 28, 2025) On June 26, 2012, when the...
Nigeria’s return to the 2014 nightmare, By Farooq Kperogi The events and atmospherics of the past few days in Nigeria feel eerily and frighteningly familiar. They...