Editorial: Rule of Law and the Nigeria Police
When the leadership of a national police force changes, the ceremony is swift; the consequences are not. The appointment of Acting Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu presents Nigeria not merely…
Editorial: A Diplomatic Travesty – Tinubu’s Cast of Ambassadorial Jokers
Nigeria’s diplomatic service has always walked a delicate line between professional competence and political patronage. But the latest ambassadorial appointments approved by Bola Ahmed Tinubu push that uneasy compromise into…
Editorial: WHO pressure to raise taxes on Booze, Sweet drinks
Few policies flatter governments more than “sin taxes”. They offer the rare pleasure of moral virtue and fiscal revenue in one bottle. Nigeria’s federal authorities, pressured by the World Health…
Editorial: Between Nasir El-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu
There is something faintly tragic about watching two men who once styled themselves as reformist crusaders reduce their shared history to a soap opera. Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna…
Editorial: Tinubu Turning Nigeria into a One Party State
Nigeria has seen political defections before, but what is unfolding under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is something far more dangerous: the systematic dismantling of multiparty democracy. With Governor Ahmadu Fintiri…
Editorial: A House Divided – CAN Leadership Crisis
There are crises that test institutions. And there are crises that expose them. The sordid leadership debacle within the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) falls squarely into the latter category.…
Editorial: Brigandage in the Senate -Shameful!
Nigeria’s Senate has long been a theatre of the absurd, but its latest performance deserves a special place in the annals of legislative self humiliation. What unfolded on Tuesday was…
Editorial: WHO pressure to raise taxes on Booze, Sweet drinks
Few policies flatter governments more than “sin taxes”. They offer the rare pleasure of moral virtue and fiscal revenue in one bottle. Nigeria’s federal authorities, pressured by the World Health…
Editorial: Tinubu’s $750,000-a-Month Washington Circus
While Nigerians queue for fuel, ration electricity and watch inflation hollow out their wages, President Bola Tinubu is busy lighting cigars with taxpayer money in Washington. The federal government finally…
Editorial: Nigeria must reciprocate Trump’s $15,000 Visa Bond
This is no longer about visas. It is about power, pride and precedent. Washington’s decision to saddle Nigerian travelers with visa bonds of up to $15,000; while herding them through…