A senator’s Lonely Death
By Lasisi Olagunju In September 2022, the Nigerian Tribune reported the discovery of the skeleton of an engineer, Mr John Aderemi Abiola, in his house in the Adeosun/Idi Orogbo community…
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Tinubu’s Subsidy-Free Subsidy and Neoliberalism’s Collapse
By Farooq A. Kperogi Apparently, the omniscient, omnicompetent “invisible hand” of the market has suddenly developed an infirmity that requires the helping hand of the Nigerian state. After more than…
Tibi Tire La Dá Ilé Ayé: The good and evil in life
By Babafemi Ojudu During his keynote address at the 30th anniversary of the creation of Ekiti State, Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji looked up from his prepared speech and said: “Whatever…
Atiku’s Subsidy vs Tinubu’s Discount
By Mohammed Bello Doka The Federal Government has a new economic philosophy. It goes like this: when a policy is proposed by the opposition, it is retrogressive, fiscally unsustainable, and…
Tinubu’s Return: An Update
By Reuben Abati Exactly a week ago, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, now jokingly renamed a citizen of Kano with a Northern-sounding name Ashiru Bala Ahmadu Tanimu, whatever that means by…
Nigeria: Is Interest Rate Cut the Silver Bullet for Economy Decay?
By Marcel Okeke It was, in various respects, a shocker the other day, when the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) dropped the Monetary Policy…
World Fights Costly Petrol. Tinubu Defends It
By Farooq A. Kperogi Something extraordinary is happening across the world. Governments are losing sleep over the intolerably rising prices of petrol and diesel. They are cutting taxes, subsidizing fuel,…
Open letter to President Tinubu
By Senator Babafemi Ojudu My dear brother, Welcome home. Today, as Nigeria marks the anniversary of her independence, we are reminded that the promise of freedom must find meaning in…
Nigeria At 66: Hopes And Impediments
By Reuben Abati “Hopes and Impediments” is the title of a 1988 collection of essays by the legendary writer, Chinua Achebe, and it is perhaps the most appropriate phrase to…
De-Risking Africa and Democratizing its Wealth
…Aliko Dangote and the Transformative Promise of the People’s IPO By Anayo Agu Lagos There are moments when a business transaction becomes larger than business. It becomes a statement about…
The Dangerous Normalisation of Leaked Private Conversations
By Ken Harries, Esq. There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society…
Senator Akpabio, Sandra Duru and the miserable lives of blackmailers
By ETIM ETIM A blackmailer is a criminal who threatens to reveal a damaging, embarrassing or secret piece of information about someone unless that person pays the blackmailer money, property…
Is my phone eavesdropping on me?
By Ata Ikkideh Something rather disturbing happened to me yesterday, and I am still trying to make sense of it. Two weeks ago, I walked into a diagnostic centre to…
Senator Akpabio and Sandra Duru’s betrayal
By Celestine Mel Trust is the most fragile currency in human interaction. It takes years to build, seconds to shatter, and when deliberately weaponized for malicious reasons, it ceases to…
Sowore as Best President Nigeria Refuses to Have
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria has tried almost everybody except the people who actually frighten the system, who can shake, even extirpate, the status quo and who can cause the…
Atiku’s Unsolicited Homework
By Sunday Dare Alhaji Atiku Abubakar convened a press conference in Abuja and chose, once again, to address the President of the Federal Republic as “Bola.” He issued instructions. He…
Crisis in the newsroom
Crisis in the newsroo By Abiola Ayankunbi CORE THESIS The Nigerian newsstand used to be a parliament of its own – buzzing, crowded, full of “free readers” arguing the news…
INEC’s “Final List”, Dangote’s Ark And The Looming Agony
By Reuben Abati “Now that the game is on, and the race has started, what do you think we should expect?” “What game is that? Which race? The Premier League?…
THE CURRICULUM, STUPID!
By Babafemi Ojudu I live in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State. Within a radius of about twenty kilometres of the town are no fewer than nine institutions of higher…
Echoes and Lamentations of Nigeria’s ‘Growth Without Development’ at Bankers’ Confab
By Marcel Okeke The annual banking and finance conference of the Chartered Institute of Bakers of Nigeria (CIBN) held in Abuja (September 8-9, 2026) literally provided the forum for echoes…
Dangote Refinery: A National Treasure That Will Outlive the Malta Cabal
By Mohammed Bello Doka Let me be clear from the outset: I have my grouse with Aliko Dangote. Many of us from Northern Nigeria do. For decades, we watched the…
The Nigerian Killed By His Penis
By Reuben Abati “Brother, how now? How was your weekend?” “Basically, a weekend of shocks” “What could possibly be shocking you? Life is for the living. Live it as it…
Who is KARL IKEMEFUNA VON BATTEN and what is he hiding?
By Femi Fani-Kayode I attempted to stay out of this discussion but I found the whole matter so nauseating that I cannot in good conscience do so any longer. I…
Christopher Musa, El-Rufai, and Tinubu’ Drug Folders
By Mohammed Bello Doka On the very same day that the Presidency was gasping for air over the damning FBI confirmation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s criminal drug trafficking investigation,…
Tinubu says the North is the biggest beneficiary of his reforms. But the North is Not Blind
By Mohammed Bello Doka President Bola Tinubu stood before the nation on Tuesday and declared that Northern Nigeria is the biggest beneficiary of his economic reforms. Speaking through the National…
Abacha’s death: the questions that still demand answers
By Babafemi Ojudu I have just finished reading the account of former DSS operative, Mr Dennis Amachree, on the sudden death of General Sani Abacha in his book DSS @…
Now That Tinubu and Atiku Agree on Cheap Petrol
By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week, I argued that Atiku Abubakar’s promise to restore petrol subsidy had rattled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because it finally opened a policy flank on…
Arewa Youth in APC: Time to Tell Yourself the Bitter Truth
by Mohammed Bello Doka You can be in APC, you can be an APC data boy, but that does not mean you should not have sense. Assuming we concede that…
Why the NBA Was Right to Invite VeryDarkMan
By Babafemi Ojudu I commend the Nigerian Bar Association for inviting Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, to participate in its Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. Here is…
Scrapping subsidy is a matter of law, not whim
By Okoi Obono-obla A presidential candidate who has secured the sponsorship of his political party to campaign and canvass for votes — to convince, persuade, and win the support of…
The Menace Of Fake Agencies
By Reuben Abati Ghosts. Fake, Fraudulent, Dubious Things are not new in Nigeria. The crisis of transparency in Nigeria’s public sector payroll system began, for example, as far back as…
Can President Tinubu Revive Nigeria’s Moribund Refineries?
By Marcel Okeke If there has been any time the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration is looking for anything to strengthen its credibility and showcase its scorecard, it is now—to…
The man who sleeps in the prison he built
By Kio Amachree There is a peculiar silence in Nigeria today, and it is deafening. A former governor of Kaduna State, once one of the most powerful men in the…
Adeleke: Winning The Battle For Osun
By Reuben Abati The success of the Gubernatorial election held in Osun State on Saturday, August 15, 2026 had implications that went beyond the boundaries of the state. The lead…
The Nigeria I Miss
By Babafemi Ojudu I was sixteen when I left secondary school. My father believed that education should be followed immediately by responsibility. A young man, in his view, had to…
How Adeleke danced back from the dead
By Paul Nwabuikwu In the final weeks before last Saturday’s governorship elections in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke’s time in Government House Oshogbo, seemed to be up. The omens were dark,…
Beyond the ballot: Gov Eno ‘s vision for deepening democracy
By Aniekan Umanah Thursday, August 6, began with a rainy morning in Lagos. But at Onikan, within the historic precincts of the Yoruba Tennis Club, the weather was quickly overshadowed…
Lamido and New Twist in Nigerian Award Rackets
By Farooq Kperogi Nigerians have become so listlessly accustomed to the epidemic of dubious awards. Every week, some grandiloquently named organization nobody has heard of announces a “Man of the…
THEY ALL CONSULTED THE DARKNESS. THE DARKNESS COLLECTED THEM ALL
A Letter from Stockholm By Kio Amachree There is a ledger that no EFCC can audit, no tribunal can seal, and no propaganda machine can rewrite. It is the ledger…
When the cassock abandons the pulpit
By Sunday Dare HISTORY has never been kind to institutions that mistake political opportunism for moral clarity. When the leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), led by…
Loyalty, Memory and Chief Obasanjo
By Babafemi Ojudu Public figures who invoke loyalty as a moral test must themselves be prepared to have their own record on loyalty examined. I have followed the debate surrounding…
Cardinal Onaiyekan’s Abuse of Clerical Privilege
By Temitope Ajayi There is something fundamentally inappropriate about Cardinal John Onaiyekan granting a television interview to offer his own account and interpretation of what transpired during the private meeting…
ABUJA @50: What Happened to Wike’s Promise?
History has a way of keeping receipts. On February 3, 2026, Abuja turned 50. Fifty years since the Federal Capital was officially designated in 1976 by the Murtala/Obasanjo military government.…
The Muslim-Muslim Ticket is Good in Abuja but Bad in Kaduna—When You Have a PhD in Propaganda
by Mohammed Bello Doka On July 10, 2026, the All Progressives Congress formally submitted the presidential nomination forms of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima to the…
Xenophobia, Tinubu And Ramaphosa
By Reuben Abati In the midst of the brazen, extra-judicial killings of Nigerians in South Africa, along with other Africans, on the grounds that these are illegal immigrants, the South…
Publisher visits Vice Chancellor
The Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Policy&Politics newspaper, ETIM ETIM, this Monday visited the Vice Chancellor of Baze University, Abuja, Prof Abiodun Adeniyi, in his office in the university. Both of…
Tinubu’s Government of Ghosts, Doubles and Phantom Agencies
By Farooq A. Kperogi A disturbing pattern of unending, self-destructive administrative chaos in appointments to consequential public office positions is defining the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government, which signposts Tinubu’s…
Nigeria: Tracking Poverty and Hunger as Gauge for Economic Reforms?
By Marcel Okeke More than three years since the implementation of a multi-faceted economic reforms, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) is getting set to “introduce a system to track…
Gov. Mutfwang’s apology to Igbos
By ETIM ETIM On Sunday, July 19, Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State formally apologized to the Igbo community in the state for the state’s role in the Nigerian…
The Death of a Journalist and the Birth of a Courtier: The Onanuga Story
by Mohammed Bello Doka Did power expose or corrupt Bayo Onanuga? This is the question that haunts the spectacle of a man who once stood before military dictators with…