Monday Column

Monday Column

Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar told President Tinubu the plain truth

On June 9, 1998, the day he was to be retired from the army by late Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, fate instead intervened to make Gener

Shettima’s UN speech for the ages

Millions of Nigerians and our active or retired foreign policy professionals, particularly would feel most encouraged by the performance of the Nigeri

Random thoughts on a not-so-random nation

Living in Nigeria, some will say, surviving in it, can be a difficult prospect all by itself. Just driving in the traffic, or going to the hospital, o

Nigeria’s market-driven stagnation

When I heard over the radio last week that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, was launching yet another

The false economics of fuel subsidy

In faraway Beijing, China, last Friday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed any doubts that he fully endorsed the latest hike in petrol prices by defe