ABUJA—Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said corrupt people pervades the social, economic, political and religious spheres of the country. He alleged that the people appeared to be united in corruption and would protect the identity […]
IT was such a horrendous scene that I couldn’t get over for some time. I left home for work that fateful day, looking forward to an eventful day. But alas, the whole of the day […]
South Africa’s grain-milling body is opposing a request by the nation’s biggest corn-farmers’ lobby to review a tariff on imports of the country’s staple food as this will lead to higher prices that will burden […]
Though often absent from retellings of the Cold War, the interventions and alliances conceived in Southern Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, had a profound and sometimes devastating impact. Newly independent nations such as Angola, […]
The 2016 Appropriation Bill has probably generated wider public interest and debate than any other annual budget in recent time. The projected spending of over N6 trillion is by far the highest ever, but we […]
Thank God for democracy. Thank God for kings. It is a contradiction that works well here. No matter how avidly we proclaim our republican virtues, we are, at heart, all royalists. The earlier we admit […]
Remember Paul Tarfa? He was the famous colonel, at the height of military rule, who had a rather infamous koboko theory. No, the good colonel (as he then was) was no sadist. He was just […]
As a country, we have wasted many opportunities of dialogue, reasoning and acting in accordance with the dictates of empirical evidence. We had sufficient oil rents, which encouraged the muddle through approach to policy and […]
During his interaction with farmers in Akure, Ondo State on the recurring attacks by Fulani herdsmen, the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase dropped a lead that should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. For, […]
THERE justice can be bought and sold cannot be called the temple of justice. It may be more appropriately labelled as the market of justice. A temple is not a place for buying and selling, […]
“…And then, a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel… I say only that this man is not […]
Once upon a time, it was against the law in Nigeria not to use the seat belt in a moving car. In fact, the Federal Road Safety Commission made so much noise about the subject […]
AS Yoweri Museveni was declared winner of Uganda’s presidential poll over the weekend, making him a typical African big man, so good at his job, popular with his people, that he never loses any election, […]
CALL it the Sheriff shocker – that was what it was to most people. Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) airily announced last week Tuesday, that in addition to […]
A pledge by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi, to hand over the Ajaokuta Steel Complex in Kogi State to private operators this year, in order to jump-start mining and industrialization, is cheering. […]
LAGOS— Despite current drop in power generation and supply, the directive by the Senate to suspend the new 45 per cent tariff hike remains invalid, as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, said it lacked […]
It’s a bug that preys exclusively on leaders or those in positions of leadership! Another description: The antics of groveling sycophants who manipulate the detachment imposed by leadership, constantly feeding such individuals with only what […]
Embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, has filed a fresh fundamental rights enforcement suit against telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, for the alleged violation of his right to privacy. Tarfa is seeking […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has initiated a discreet probe into the $2billion Malabu Oil deal to ascertain whether the country was short-changed. The agency may interact with those who were parties to the […]
ABUJA— Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has said the commission could still prosecute suspects, even after they have returned stolen money to the treasury. Ibrahim Magu Magu had […]
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