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Opinion

January 15, 2025

After an extraordinary journey, an amazing goodbye to Professor Chieka Ifemesia

Professor Ifemesia has joined our ancestors at 99. He is now part of the stars in the sky, and I feel his presence each time I look up at the night sky.

January 14, 2025

Sunday Oyeleke: A Rejoinder: Dele Farotimi’s ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’ as a ‘polemoir’

But as I began with a blurb on the back of its hardcover by the Nigerian journalist Rufai Oseni, my great expectation for objectivity surpassing sentiment began to diminish.

Dele Farotimi and book cover
January 13, 2025

It’s time Nigerians stop celebrating thieves as heroes

When our people celebrate rogues, they convey the message that morality and integrity are irrelevant; what matters is wealth, power, and more wealth.

James Ibori, Bola Tinubu and Yahaya Bello 
January 12, 2025

Victor Olomo: Farewell to President Jimmy Carter, an exceptional, faithful leader 

He was an American leader who dared to bring America’s true virtues and Christian ideals into political leadership at the highest levels of statecraft.

Jimmy Carter
January 12, 2025

Lagos water authority should not profit from its failure 

Revenue generation is necessary but comes with a fundamental obligation: responsibility.

Lagos State Water Corporation
January 12, 2025

What Kayode Ariwoola conveniently left out of his 2024 memoir 

The best that can be said of the book and its author is that they chose to be economical with any indication of a coherent judicial philosophy.

CJN Ariwoola
January 11, 2025
Zacch Adedeji, Federal Inland Revenue Service Chairman
January 9, 2025

What you might expect in 2025

I made a particularly catastrophic forecast for last year, which has left a puree of tomatoes on my face.

Trump; Dangote; Tinubu
January 8, 2025
Zacch Adedeji, Federal Inland Revenue Service Chairman
January 8, 2025

How Zacch Adedeji became a man of exceptional grace and excellence 

To all who know Zacch and have interacted with him, one special attribute as he turns 47 is his humility.

Hon. Zacch Adedeji