By Sodiq Oyeleke Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to use his leadership position to drop the plan by the Federal Government to borrow about N895bn of…
By ’Femi Asu Nigeria spent almost N2tn on debt servicing payments from January to September 2020, the latest data obtained from the Debt Management Office have shown. The DMO had on Thursday disclosed that the…
By Simon Kolawole If you take time to study Nigeria since 1960 — when we began to govern ourselves — you would notice an unrelenting constant: bloodshed. From political violence to coups, civil war, ethno-religious…
By Abiodun Nejo The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, has said Nigeria needs a new constitution to solve the imbalance, poverty, and other myriads of problems confronting it as a…
Dialogue With Akin Osuntokun This season, I mean the Covid-19 pandemic season, has been emotionally draining for me, as it is probably the case with many others. I started out trivialising its onset and laughed…
The quote ‘A people get the type of leadership they deserves’ credited to Joseph de Maistre has been trending lately on social media. Our callous leaders who rigged themselves into office via the crooked Independent…
In the last few weeks, I have been watching on YouTube Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship that will take humanity to Mass being built before our very eyes in their launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas….
Since the #ENDSARS protest started, it has become obvious that many are keeping records of those who have been dining, wining, and benefiting from our oppressors. Some days ago, when Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of…
Punch Editorial SIXTY years after independence, the abject condition of the Nigerian state is everywhere in evidence; rancour, distrust, fear of implosion and deprivation are the talking points. Hitherto sanguine believers in the myth of…
By Okechukwu Nnodim fresh loan disbursements expected from the World Bank, African Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank may raise Nigeria’s total public debt stock to N31.699tn in coming months. Nigeria currently expects about $1.844bn…
