Category: Issues and Perspectives

Dangote’s whistleblowing shakes oil sector as NMDPRA Chief quits By Prince (Dr). Wumi Akintide  Aliko Dangote’s whistleblowing intervention has once again drawn national attention to the deep-seated flaws within Nigeria’s oil and gas regulatory architecture, following the sudden resignation of the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Mr. Farouk…

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNORS OF ONDO AND EKITI STATES On the Urgent Need to Address the Rising Cost of Air Travel to Akure and Ado-Ekiti   Your Excellencies, The Governor of Ondo State The Governor of Ekiti State I extend my respectful greetings to you both. I write on behalf of concerned…

NUDGING A NATION TO ACT: POTUS challenges our Hope Agenda. By M K ILYASU   Basic Insights Religious protection succeeds when framed as civilian protection. This is to avoid sectarian bias and maintains legitimacy under international law. Multilateral legitimacy matters. UN authorization or regional consensus strengthens intervention credibility and post-conflict reconstruction. Local capacity is decisive….

DEFIANTS IN DEFENCE OF DEFIANCE: “In Lie the Truth”. By M K ILYASU Let me start by saying that for more than a decade, Nigeria has been caught up in this “Great Debate” over profound issues on National Security. The range of debate has varied, perhaps even unique in several respects. It has been sustained…

Insecurity: Again, how did we get to this pass? (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE The roots of the current crisis stretch deep into the past. To truly discern these origins, one must look all the way back to the Justice Alexander Ovie Aniagolu Report on the Maitatsine Riots in Kano (1981), whose findings clearly harbinger the…

The Tragedy of a General’s Death and the Cost of Reckless Reporting By Olaitan Adesina With Brigadier General Musa Uba’s death, Nigeria did not just lose a senior military officer; we lost a man whose life might have been saved had some individuals remembered that national security is not a plaything for newsroom ratings or…

WHEN POWER MET PROTOCOL: THE WIKE–YERIMA ENCOUNTER By Olaitan Adesina In Nigeria, public drama is both a coping mechanism and a spectator sport, and power often feels the need to perform. It rarely walks in quietly. It prefers a convoy, a siren, and a camera crew. So when Nyesom Wike, Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal…

WIKE AND YERIMA: BETWEEN EMOTION AND RATIONALITY Things are happening these days at a frenetic pace such that the only constraint a writer may encounter is- which one should I comment on and which should I overlook? To be sure, no issue of importance, at least to societal health, should be glossed over, by well-…

ABSENCE OF AMBASSADORS IN OUR DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS BY M K ILYASU There is so much talk on PBAT reluctance to appoint Ambassadors, which some equate with “Failure on Foreign Policy Strategy”. Is that so simple a matter that can be handled sine qua non to his non appearances on international forums? Come on people, let’s…