I take the title of this essay from a passage in one of 20th century’s most controversial, if seminal, novels. Chinua Achebe called the author of Heart of Darkness “a thorough-going racist.” He might be […]
The Naira exchange rate has suffered severe battering in recent times and fallen from about N160 to the present N197=$; indeed, since our national experience defines a close correlation between deepening poverty and weakening Naira […]
I truly do not like it when I have to write about an issue in our country and I have this déjà vu feeling that I already wrote about it in the past. That has […]
Nigeria increased this year’s budget deficit forecast by 36 percent after oil prices fell below the $38 per barrel benchmark set by Africa’s top producer. The gap will increase to 3 trillion naira ($15.1 billion), or […]
The Federal Government said it had commenced the review of laws guiding the privatisation and concession of public assets in the country. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, stated this in […]
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to lift the foreign exchange restrictions it placed on 41 items, saying the measure was no longer necessary, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fresh 22 charges against an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, and 12 others. The charges, which were filed on Friday at a […]
ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA , […]
John Holt Nigeria Plc posted an operating profit of N1.63 billion for the year ended September 30 2015, an 18.50 percent reduction from N2 billion the previous year. The company with interest in businesses ranging from […]
LAGOS—Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has petitioned the International Criminal Court, ICC, requesting it to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed by some Nigerians over alleged diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure military […]
Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will on Wednesday, hold a world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. According to a statement by Guy Mettan, Executive Director, the Geneva Press Club, Jonathan will address two most crucial topics […]
ABUJA- FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the alleged castigation and harassment of the people of the Niger Delta and […]
A former presidential candidate of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) and Alliance for Democracy (AD), and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae, has been in the news in the last […]
There is something baffling about the constant need by the people who do these things to measure human happiness. For example, in a 2010 Gallup Poll, Nigerians were described as the happiest people on earth, […]
Some mothers do have them indeed. But just as it is in the human family, so it is in the comity of nations. There are nations and there are nations. Just as Leo Tolstoy, the […]
Given the terrible harm and retrogression corruption has brought upon Nigeria, it is no surprise that President Muhammadu Buhari is fixated on combating it, almost to the large scale exclusion of other great policies needed […]
Esu sleeps in the courtyard; the courtyard is too small for him. Esu sleeps in the bedroom; the bedroom is still too small for him. Esu sleeps inside the kernel of a palm nut; now […]
When journalists claim that it is their exclusive preserve to set the national agenda of a nation, not many people fully appreciate the weight and significance of their claim. One politician said the other day […]
Unless there is an immediate revolution in the country’s judicial culture, citizens may be in a better position to support the government in ending or arresting corruption in the country than a judiciary that is […]
Although I did not go beyond California while vacationing in the US, my experiences are enough to convince any reasonable person thatAmerica is a great country. Of course, the US is not a paradise: America […]
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