Opinion

Iduh Onah WHEN I first read Stupid White Men… and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (2001) in mid-2002, I was fascinated not just by Michael Moore’s …

Rekpene Bassey What happens when a presidential vacation begins to raise questions about the exercise of presidential power? President Bola Ahmed Tinubu left Nigeria on August 30 for what the …

The Arbiter Last week, while writing on this topic, I stopped at the point where I said, “The man I will vote for must also promise me one thing about …

Olu Allen Perhaps we have misunderstood the concept of leadership. Maybe a president does not necessarily have to be physically present in the country to govern effectively. Perhaps what Africa …

Kolawole Olaniyan It is happening again. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigerians are facing an increasingly repressive political and legal environment. Like the Muhammadu Buhari government before it, the Tinubu administration …

Iduh Onah THE RECENT behind-the-scene concession of King’s College, Lagos, is an ordinary administrative decision that opens a small window through which one may glimpse into the larger architecture of …

Olu Allen In July, Nigerians were told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would attend the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Jimoh …

Here we are once more, on the verge of electing our representatives for the eighth time in our current democratic journey. This journey, or the Fourth Republic, has outlasted the …

Olu Allen There is something deeply unsettling about the deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger State. …

Iduh Onah IN ROMAN Catholic theology, the sphere of sin is divided into two broad categories: mortal and venial sins. Mortal sins involve grave matters, full knowledge and deliberate consent, …