It is no co-incidence, in Nigerian politics, that the cautious optimism of the people at the beginning of presidential tenures is turned into raging dissatisfaction before the tenure is over, a malaise replicated across all […]
…if Nigeria is to achieve its goal of constant and reliable power supply, then the just and equitable devolution of constitutional power and resources to the states and the concomitant decentralisation of electricity transmission should […]
It is a time of far-reaching, yet immediate decisions. The nation is dying. The time for false pride is over. If this nation lacks the necessary technical resources, then there remains only one blameless, overdue […]
A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered an interim forfeiture of landed property valued at N325.4 million allegedly belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Petroleum Minister, to the federal government. Babs […]
Former President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and ex-Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is a small man of big ideas. He is intrepid, determined in whatever he sets out to achieve and […]
Adjudicating on admiralty or maritime matters was a herculean task for Nigerian judges as well as lawyers who appear before them until the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) decided to take the bull by the horns […]
Growing up in a village in South-East Nigeria in the 70s was a great fun. I still relish that period of wandering in the woods, gathering wild fruits and playing games in the sand. I […]
It was with deep sorrow that I was rudely confronted on 25th April 2018 by the news of the demise of my mentor, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, the quintessential development expert who held sway at the […]
On July 28, 2016, Facebook user Ndoboke Doris posed a question, followed by a prayer, on the wall of journalist Jones Abiri. “Where are you my brother?” Doris wondered. “I pray the Good God shall […]
Recent talks about PVC in Nigeria cannot be about polyvinyl chloride, a rubber substitute for coating electric cables, but of the Permanent Voter Card that will empower enfranchised Nigerians to vote in the coming general […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that if he had taken an oil well when he served as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) in 1994, he would have gone to jail by now. […]
There was chaos at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, on Monday as the new immigration policy of $90 caught many foreigners arriving the country unawares. The new policy imposes an additional $90 on […]
I hope Nigeria will make it. I want Nigeria to make it. However, I have one fear, one doubt: how does a nation that has lost even the most elementary notion of humanity make it? […]
President Muhammed Buhari’s failure to end the killings in Plateau State confirmed this much: Any random scum yanked off the street to become president would almost certainly perform better than Buhari. Buhari has felt no […]
A couple of landmark judgements, in which two top public office holders were sentenced to identical jail terms for financial corruption, has raised the public expectation that the judiciary has finally found its mettle in […]
“The only condition necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”, so says the great Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). Looking at this enduring aphorism in reverse, one might entertain […]
The Federal Government says the National Water Resources Bill will be beneficial to all Nigerians, whenever it is signed into law. The Minister of Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, said this on […]
Recent reports by a United Kingdom newspaper, The Sun, that leaders of the terrorist group, Islamic State, are sneaking battle-hardened jihadists from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists for possible attacks in Britain, should be […]
The OAU in the above headline refers to Obafemi Awolowo University tucked away in a sprawling village, called Ile-Ife, an enduring cradle of Yoruba culture and civilisation. The sex in the headline refers to the […]
Former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was destined to be national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) at this intersection in the nation’s political evolution. His emergence approximates a part of […]
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