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But Tinubu’s confidence in his own ability – “because my name is Bola Ahmed Tinubu” – is utterly misplaced. Nothing in his 100 days in office justifies that boastfulness. Rather, he’s been muddling through. Yet, flowery presidential speeches won’t transform Nigeria. There must be credible actions and tangible results. Sadly, so far, Tinubu is all talk!
Slums have become the poster face of urban poverty - the poverty that has followed man from the village into the city. Fighting or trying to eliminate them should be the top priority of any government today across the globe, especially in a developing country such as Nigeria. But the best war to dislodge slums…
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the newly installed president of Nigeria, is a product of two great institutional anomalies. One is a deeply flawed...
Vanguard News Translate Christmas message: Nigeria is failing, it needs a saviour On LAST year, I wrote a piece titled “A lesson of Christmas: Nigeria needs sacrificial leaders” ( Vanguard, December 27, 2019). A year on, I’m returning to the same theme. For while Christmas brings hope as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who came to save the world, thinking about Nigeria fills one with utter despair, not hope. Even the most congenital optimists must worry about the future of this country. And the abject lack of visionary and transformational leaders must elici...