Opinions

Professor Niyi Osundare needs no introduction to anyone who is a little familiar with Nigeria’s literary scholarship. Furthermore, anyone, specifically, any of our readers, who was an avid reader of …

Against a deepening housing deficit, now estimated at over 20 million units, alongside sprawling slums, congested ghettos, and an explosion of informal settlements, the recent advocacy by Dangote Cement for …

Real estate remains one of the most dynamic sectors in Nigeria, serving as a driver of economic growth and a critical platform for meeting the housing needs of millions. The …

The truth about our leaders, our present crop of leaders, is unnerving. It is as horrifying as it is tragic. They suffer from what the British neurologist, David Owen, described …

Now that the hard news – breaking news – aspect of the airline saga of August has lapsed, we can now leisurely treat its soft news entertaining aspect, the one …

Nigeria is embarking on one of its most ambitious infrastructure projects since independence: the proposed Lagos–Calabar Coastal Road. This 700-kilometer mega-highway will stretch from the bustling metropolis of Lagos in the …

Huge chasms linger between authoritarian regimes and Western liberal democracies which are, at times, bridged by effective diplomacy, mutually beneficial geoeconomic and geostrategic collaborations, negotiation and realpolitik, on the one …

The unintended consequence of the 1975 purging of the system is even more debilitating—the institutionalisation of bureaucratic decay and corruption. The post Fifty years after public service purge: What have …

If you care to look up the word ‘empowerment’ in your dictionary, you will likely see a lot of rigmarole, but in the end, you will be left with the …

Within the past year, two devastating floods—at Alau Dam in Maiduguri and the Guadalupe River in Texas—have shown how water, life’s greatest resource, can also be its deadliest force. Homes …