Opinion

In the last few days, Nigerians have been assaulted with the humongous sums our Banks have been declaring as profits. Almost all the big banks collectively termed – FUGAZ have crossed the N1 trillion mark in top line revenues leading them to declare billions as dividends leaving their stakeholders smiling …

(Published by the Sunday Tribune, March 23, 2025) OPINIONS are often divided about the rightness or wrongness of political actions, such as the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State as announced by President Bola Tinubu last week. This is because opinions are offshoots of attitudes and behaviours. …

IN the wake of a Supreme Court-triggered crisis in Rivers State —masterminded by Nyesom Wike, whose outsize influence over the judiciary has earned him the fittingly dubious distinction of being the de facto head of Nigeria’s “judiciary” — President Bola Tinubu has, with a stroke of imperial presidential pronouncement, declared …

  They say that we are in the month of women. We just finished International Women’s Day, and the noise was deafening. I broke into a women’s day session organised at a big bank where the panellists were talking about the challenges they had to go through to succeed The …

NIGERIA, under the watch of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has earned the unenviable mark of ranking sixth globally in terrorism, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). This ranking is a stark reminder of the country’s struggles with terrorism, which has claimed countless lives and displaced many more, while the …

JUNE 12, 1993 marked a significant setback for Nigeria, harking back to the January 15, 1966, coup-d’etat. This unfortunate event pushed the country back by at least a century, primarily due to the suspension of the 1963 Republican Constitution. Although the masterminds behind the coup never explicitly stated that they …

HAS anybody wondered why the generality of the first set of our educated citizens revered the United Kingdom and aped the white Briton? They saw the mode of dressing, manner of speech, behavioural nuances, and general etiquette of the Briton as the epitome of civilisation. It took some coups and …

The temptation to flex federal muscle following the decision of the Plateau State Government to suspend mining activities in the state has again brought to focus the undercurrents that aggravate Nigeria’s federation. Governor Caleb Mutfwang moving forward in his determined efforts in lifting Plateau State from the level he met …

Mamman Vatsa Writers Village, tucked amidst igneous rocks and ranges, vales and valleys in Abuja’s Mpape District is rapidly contesting the medal of Nigeria’s most vibrant headquarters of literary activity. The physical location of the ever-growing permanent headquarters of the Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA), was, for several decades after …

I am sorry o, but you can’t cause chaos that led to someone’s death, his wife’s death, the collapse of one of the biggest business Empires in Africa, the deaths of thousands, and the collapse of democracy, and now be rewarded with N17b and be feted by some of the …