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Opinion

March 6, 2025

African lessons Zelensky may use in Ukraine

Unlike his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, Zelensky was just the fool the West needed.

Zelensky with Trump in Oval Office
March 5, 2025

Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad: Nigerians’ verdict on new tax reform legislation

Without gainsaying the fact, the tax reform bills have been unarguably about the most thought-provoking issues in Nigeria today.

FIRS and National Assembly
March 3, 2025

Why it’s criminal to pay Nigerian soldiers N3,000 meal allowance

If Napoleon Bonaparte is right, then our troops are being forced to march in hunger.

Nigerian Troops
March 2, 2025

How public hearing on tax reform legislation unfolded

The opportunity is here. We need to seize it and make it work for everyone.

FIRS
February 27, 2025

Babangida’s long journey to sorry

Babangida will not change, but that’s okay. He shouldn’t also make the mistake of thinking we have all forgotten.  

Ibrahim Babangida, Ernest Shonekan and Sani Abacha
February 24, 2025

How Tinubu, National Assembly should handle 178,000 stolen police firearms

Across the vast, ungoverned spaces of our country, where state policing is little more than a fanciful notion, criminals armed with stolen firearms reign unchecked.

Armed police officers on duty
February 21, 2025

Ribadu’s fury over Canada visa refusal

If a bunch of secondary school students on a Sudoku exhibition tour to Kathmandu were refused visas and decided to moan about it on TikTok, I can understand that.

Ribadu and Trudeau
February 17, 2025

Before Tinubu taxes Nigerians to death

If Tinubu fails to learn from these lessons, he risks turning our citizens into perpetual beggars and hitchhikers on the road to serfdom.

Bola Tinubu and Nigerian masses
February 13, 2025

 What 2027 coalition must learn from Atiku Abubakar’s fatal error in 2023

The former vice president and opposition PDP misread the Nigerian political system or, even worse, displayed ignorance of the country’s political behaviour and demographics. 

Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, Nasir el-Rufai and Kayode Fayemi