THE EIGHT “LOANS”: WHAT SOLUDO’S PAPER DOES NOT TELL US

22 Sep 2026

There is another important question arising from the eight development-financing facilities listed by the Anambra Government. Were these simply eight ordinary loans independently negotiated and contracted by Peter Obi’s administration with foreign lenders? The World Bank documentation suggests that the answer is no. For most of these programmes, the Federal Republic of Nigeria was the […]

The Chicken Has Come Home to Roost: Tinubu’s Sudden Courtship of Igbo Votes

12 Sep 2026

The chicken has come home to roost. Tinubu is now in search of Igbo votes. The wind has blown, and his Northern friends have seen his ugly anterior and flown away in horror. Igbos are now the new target of manipulation. He was not good to his Northern friends, but he wants Igbos to believe […]

Tinubu, Yar’Adua’s Script, and Why the South East Was Never Meant to Win

09 Sep 2026

All those who believe Tinubu has any plan to make a South East person president of Nigeria are deluded. The script he is following is simple: power will forever rotate between the Fulani North and his Lagos axis, and “Yibo” — which includes the South South and North Central — will never smell Aso Rock. […]

Prudent Management, Not Subsidy, Is What Nigeria Needs From Its Next President

07 Sep 2026

I repeat: subsidy will be mismanaged. What Nigeria needs is a prudent manager of resources, not another round of subsidy payments. Prudent management alone could bring fuel prices down to around N650 per litre without subsidy. Atiku is not talking about figures because he knows his proposed subsidy would only produce a marginal reduction, to […]

Atiku’s Subsidy “Return” Promise Is a Scam — Here’s the Math Nobody in His Camp Can Explain

03 Sep 2026

When I said Atiku’s promise to bring back the subsidy was a scam, some of you thought I was overreacting. Just watch his party leader “explain” the unexplainable. The simple question is: what are the numbers? The answer: “We are still consulting.” Can you imagine that? You made an announcement without knowing what you’re talking […]

Tinubu Is the Problem, Not the Subsidy: Why Nigerians Are Wrong to Miss Buhari

02 Sep 2026

I cannot believe it — Nigerians are already missing Buhari. The same intellectuals who used him to torpedo progress under GEJ are now leading the charge for his return to power, just wearing a different face. Why is that so? Because they cannot do the hard work of guiding and guarding the people to choose […]

Two Scam Artists: How Nigeria’s Leaders Keep Recycling The Same Fuel Subsidy Lie

27 Aug 2026

Tinubu knew Buhari’s rhetoric about lowering fuel prices was hogwash. But being a scam artist — a “master strategist,” in the all-is-fair-in-politics sense of grab, snatch, and run — he latched onto it anyway, using the populist Buhari as his ladder into power. Once in office, he executed a double-whammy policy reversal: removing fuel subsidies […]

Nigeria’s Real Problem Was Never Policy — It Was Fiscal Discipline

23 Aug 2026

There’s so much buzz in Nigeria right now about returning to the petrol subsidy regime. I say to myself: here we go again. We always think policies will fix things. I disagree. Nigeria’s fundamental challenge, from Independence till date, has never really been about policies. Almost every policy has some advantage and the potential to […]

Adeleke’s Dangerous Gamble: Why Embracing Tinubu Could Cost Him Everything

19 Aug 2026

There are certain things a politician and state governor should never say. What message is Adeleke sending to Northerners? If Northerners follow his lead and vote en bloc for Atiku, where would Tinubu be? This statement from Adeleke is poor strategy. Secondly, dissatisfaction with Tinubu contributed to Adeleke’s re-election. If the people of Osun State […]