Monday Lines: Our president’s love affair with the IMF by Lasisi Olagunju
A colleague yesterday shared a 1992 campaign video of Chief M.K.O. Abiola promising to demystify governance in Nigeria and stop “people’s heads” from being “shaved in their absence.” A professor…
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Non-Aligned Movement and Nigeria’s quest for equal access to capital
By Tunde Rahman Is the Non-Aligned Movement still around? Is the organisation still in existence? That was the weighty question Professor Ikechukwu Okoro, a visually impaired Nigerian and Iowa State…
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Monday Lines: Ibadan blast, Makinde and federalism by Lasisi Olagunju
Mr Youssouf Sawane, a Malian money-maker, leads miners from Mali in Oyo State. He was asked by the Nigerian Tribune how much his group was paying into the coffers of…
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In eight months of Tinubu administration , Nigeria’s stock market leads the world by Bayo Onanuga
The Nigerian economy is looking good in some sectors. This is not a harebrained assessment, despite the high inflation and the unstable exchange rate of the Naira. Those who doubt…
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Tinubu, ‘A Tribe Called Judah’ and the power of creative economy
By Temitope Ajayi While extolling Funke Akindele, the Nollywood filmmaker for her recent box office accomplishment, President Bola Tinubu lauded the growing contribution of the Nigerian creative industry to the…
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Monday Lines: For Nigerian soldiers and judges by Lasisi Olagunju
A gentleman strolled into my office sometime ago and gave his surname as Adamasingba. In my almost thirty years in Ibadan, I had identified the name ‘Adamasingba’ solely with a…
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Monday Lines: The scandals in Abuja, By Lasisi Olagunju
Some cabinet members went to Western Region premier, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, to complain about the corruption of one of their colleagues. They said the man was stealing their party’s funds…
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Amanze Obi’s spiral of lies
By Bayo Onanuga On Monday 11 December, I stumbled on the 6th, in the series of opinions about the last general election being peddled by Daily Sun columnist, Amanze Obi.…
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Monday Lines: Shettima, Kokori: ‘Nigeria Go Better’
By Lasisi Olagunju On the streets of Ibadan, there is an Aisha Suleiman from Kano State begging for alms. The about-22-year-old lady suffered a sudden divorce and everything around her…
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COP28: Nigeria’s positive takeaways
By Tunde Rahman The United Nations’ Climate Change Summit, otherwise called COP28, currently going on in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opened with the historic launch of the Loss and Damage…
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