By Bolanle BOLAWOLE WHEN TWO elephants fight, the grass, they say, suffers. But when cabals fight, and fight dirty like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Aliko Dangote are doing, what happens? Dogs eat dogs and chickens gnaw at each other’s intestines. Can of worms explode in the open and cupboards full of skeletons, [&hel...
By Bola BOLAWOLE LAST WEEK, Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) stirred the hornets’ nest when a letter addressed to the Lagos State branch of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) hit the newsstand. Dated Friday, July 19, 2024, and signed by its Head of Operations, Ayokunle Akinrinmisi, LASPA’s letter intimated the PFN that vehi...
By Paul Ejime IT IS NOT entirely surprising, yet the implications can be far-reaching. Beyond the potential for an unprecedented first female president in America, Uncle Sam’s Land of Liberty, facing the toughest threat yet to its superpower supremacy, could be in for an inflammable Donald Trump’s second term at the White House. Whichever way ...
By David Adenekan The Judicial Constitutional Interpretation of Local Government Financial Autonomy in Nigeria Is Sacrosanct: A Rejoinder to “Local Government Autonomy, Supreme Court’s Perverse Ruling Won’t Work”, By Olu Fasan. FIRSTLY, THE process of attaining a goal will be irrelevant if it is counter-productive. Suff...
By David Adenekan The Judicial Constitutional Interpretation of Local Government Financial Autonomy In Nigeria Is Sacrosanct: A Rejoinder To “Local Government Autonomy, Supreme Court’s Perverse Ruling Won’t Work”, By Olu Fasan FIRSTLY, THE process of attaining a goal will be irrelevant if it is counter productive. Suffi...
By Victor Itodo Abuh THE JOINT Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently set the cut-off marks for the 2024/2025 academic session, with the minimum score for admission into universities at 140, and for polytechnics and colleges of education at 100. This decision has stirred a significant amount of discussion among stakeholders in Nige...
By David Adenekan DID THE Punch Editorial painstakingly, study the issues of federalism in the United States of America (USA) before making this unfounded submission, that the states, in a third-tier federal system of government in the USA are responsible for the funding of the local government authorities? The Punch Editorial Board blew it bi...
By Bola BOLAWOLE IN “FINDING LONG-lasting solutions to Nigeria’s woes” published on 11 June, 2024, I commented on a post sent to me by a comrade and classmate at “Great Ife”, Wale Olajire Ajao, titled “The role of the public space in a democracy.” In it, I disagreed with Wale that critics do not necessarily […]
By Bayo Onanuga THE SUPREME Court judgement on July 11, granting financial autonomy to the 774 local councils and recognising them as the third tier of Nigeria’s governance architecture, was truly historic. It was perhaps the most remarkable judgement ever delivered by the apex court in recent times, as it used its power to interpret […...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE IF YOU were to choose between three infrastructures, which is also often referred to as social amenities, which of these three would you choose? Or, better still, how will you prioritize power supply, water supply and good roads? Which will come first in your order of preference? Power supply is the life-wire […]
