Editorial: Femi Otedola’s Making It Big in a Rigged System
Femi Otedola has gifted the world his memoir, Making It Big: Lessons from a life in Business. A generous gesture, indeed because nothing says “self-made” like a billionaire explaining how…
Power sector: The watts that weren’t! – By Abiodun Komolafe
There was a delusion that the privatization of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalization of the…
Editorial: America’s Assault on Nigerian Free Speech
The United States has long positioned itself as the world’s champion of liberty, democracy, and free speech; and never tires of lecturing the world about censorship and human rights. Yet,…
Editorial: DNA Tests Are Blowing Up Nigerian Families
Nigeria is sitting on a family time bomb; and DNA tests have lit the fuse. The latest Smart DNA report just dropped, and it’s a nightmare that should terrify every…
Editorial: Raye and NYSC’s Cowardly Assault on Free Speech
In the annals of Nigeria’s long and shameful betrayals of liberty, the withholding of the – NYSC discharge certificate of Ushie Rita Uguamaye – known to millions by her social…
Editorial: Kwam1 Must Face Justice, Not Just a No-Fly List
When the rule of law bows before celebrity, the skies grow dark. Last week, Chief Wasiu Ayinde Marshall aka Kwam1, turned Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport into his personal stage,…
Editorial: El-Rufai, ADC, and the APC’s Meltdown
There comes a moment in the life of every failing empire when it begins to mistake criticism for treason, and opposition for madness. The All-Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have…
Editorial:Tell Your Papa & Tinubu’s Shameless War on Free Expression
Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly…
Editorial: That Depressing UNICEF Report on Nigerian Children
There is no eloquence left for this shame. Only rage. Cold, righteous rage. Nigeria, the self-proclaimed “Giant of Africa,” has become a tomb of innocence. A nation where childhood is…
Editorial: Kemi Badenoch – A Dangerous Obsession Consuming Nigerian Officials
There is a stench rising from Nigeria’s political elite, and it is the rancid odor of cowardice masquerading as patriotism. Their unrelenting obsession with British Conservative Leader, Kemi Badenoch has…