By Frank Ofili There is something more humiliating than losing a political battle: surrendering a battle you once appeared determined to win, then inviting the very people who cheered you on to celebrate your...
By Frank Ofili Every society has its own vocabulary of ridicule. Sometimes, a place name becomes more than a geographical reference. It enters popular speech as a coded insult, a euphemism for madness, a...
By Frank Ofili John Ruskin, the celebrated nineteenth-century English thinker, once offered a profound insight into the meaning of wealth and human progress. His philosophy, in essence, was that the true test of a...
By Frank Ofili In the run-up to the 2023 presidential election, I described Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate at the time, as a shop economist. It was not a compliment. My argument...
By Frank Ofili President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has an interesting way of listening to his party. He listens, perhaps, not necessarily to be persuaded, but to know what his party thinks before proceeding to...
By Frank Ofili The unfinished business of democracy, leadership and nation-building. Let me state from the onset that the views expressed in this article are entirely mine and do not necessarily represent those of...
By Frank Ofili A country is not prosperous because its petrol is cheaper than another country’s petrol. Its people are prosperous when their incomes, purchasing power, public services, institutions and quality of life enable...
By Frank Ofili If, at this point, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is still anchoring his opposition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu largely on Tinubu’s age, educational qualification and the forfeiture of funds in the United...
By Frank Ofili When those who govern can fly over the problems that the governed must drive through. There is something interesting happening in Nigeria. This so-called “windfall” under this Federal Government is apparently...
