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Fredrick Nwabufo June 16, 2019

Buhari’s cabinet: To be or not to be?

“It will take the next two months before ministers can come on board. Bringing them in now may disrupt the clean-up going on. So, Nigerians just have to be patient.”…

Editor July 26, 2017

Waziri Adio: The need to stop eating with ten fingers

by Waziri Adio A popular saying admonishes us not to eat with ten fingers. This axiom is not a homily about table manners. It is a metaphor about the virtue…

Isime Esene September 28, 2016

Waziri Adio: Recession as opportunity for reversing resource curse

And, sadly, it came to pass. It is well predicted that most countries blessed with natural resources, even in the best of times, perform worse economically than countries not so…

Kolapo Olapoju February 23, 2016

Buhari appoints Waziri Adio as new NEITI Executive Secretary

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Waziri Adio as the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). News of Adio's appointment was disseminated on Tuesday, by Bolaji Adebiyi, the director of press in…

Op-Ed Editor July 27, 2015

Waziri Adio: Why President Buhari must remove all fuel subsidies

by Waziri Adio Besides, it is only those who live in urban areas who enjoy the subsidy at the moment. Outside of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and a few other…

Op-Ed Editor May 18, 2015

Waziri Adio: Tough choices for Buhari to make these tough times

by Waziri Adio The new opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will soon recover from its present disarray and will definitely get on APC’s case. It has all the incentives…

Emmanuel Chidiogo April 20, 2015

Waziri Adio: Deepening democracy beyond the 2015 elections

by Waziri Adio It is in our collective interests for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get over its loss and re-organise itself, rather than disappear or dissolve into…

Op-Ed Editor April 6, 2015

Waziri Adio: What I think about Jonathan’s call to Buhari

by Waziri Adio That simple call might end up as the most important call made by Jonathan in his 16-year political career. Long after his achievements and failings might have…

Op-Ed Editor December 15, 2014

@WaziriAdio: Is this the Buhari moment?

by Waziri Adio “This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future generations, have no country other than Nigeria. We shall remain here and salvage it together.”—Buhari, 1984. “We seek a new…

Op-Ed Editor November 3, 2014

@WaziriAdio: Tambuwal- The nail under @PDPNigeria’s shoes

by Waziri Adio Aminu Waziri Tambuwal seems to have perfected the art of putting the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a strange place. To be sure, the behemoth has…

Op-Ed Editor October 20, 2014

@WaziriAdio : Things we should task the next President on

by Waziri Adio It has been widely projected that the February 2015 presidential election will be one of the most competitive in Nigeria’s electoral history, a patchy history that dates…

Op-Ed Editor September 15, 2014

Who are ‘identity entrepreneurs’ ? | Waziri Adio explains using Jega and his new haters

by Waziri Adio Of recent, Professor Attahiru Jega has come under a hail of criticisms over the distribution of the newly-created polling units. The chairman of the Independent National Electoral…

Op-Ed Editor September 2, 2014

Waziri Adio: President Jonathan needs to be a real Commander-In-Chief

by Waziri Adio The last few weeks have not been good for us in our fight against terrorism. And that is putting it mildly. Boko Haram has put our troops…

Op-Ed Editor August 18, 2014

Waziri Adio writes | Why ‘stomach infrastructure’ does not guarantee victory

by Waziri Adio “We do like vote-buying. It is essential. That is the only way we have to see anything good coming from the politicians. Anyway, I can vote for…

July 21, 2014

Waziri Adio writes | Why the PDP is not dead and will not die anytime soon

by Waziri Adio In the last six months, PDP has managed a remarkable rebound that puts it strongly back in play. And it has done this through a combination of…

June 16, 2014

Waziri Adio: Ekiti and Osun States as political battlegrounds

by Waziri Adio Of the two however, President Jonathan carries the lower risk. With the Labour Party-controlled Ondo State an ally of PDP, a win by his party in one…

June 2, 2014

Waziri Adio: Chibok and the tragedy of errors

by Waziri Adio And when the protesters were told to direct their protests at the terrorists and not at this administration, the take-away message is: If you want the girls…

May 25, 2013

Waziri Adio: There are holes in the House Report on Amaechi

by Waziri Adio The failure to qualify and even disguise words such “abuse of powers by the Executive,” “use of state machinery to witch-hunt perceived political opponents” clearly foreshadowed the…

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