Year: 2019

Nigeria and other African countries need to explore all avenues available to pressure South Africa into taking responsibility and standing up to the dangerous fire of xenophobia burning within its borders. Fresh attacks on black […]

My approach – putting the speech in the context of the adaptive challenge confronting Nigeria – was intended as a call to action for these young leaders, some of who had been elected into office… […]

I would want Bola Tinubu to do us all a big favour and move away from these taunting, tantalising and brain-wracking sweet statements to sitting on the governments he helped put in place to ensure […]

The International Monetary Fund has ranked Nigeria as the second worst country in the world in the use of sovereign wealth funds. According to the Fiscal Monitor report released on Wednesday, Qatar was the only […]

I am happy to report that after 12 years, three months and 22 days of living in Canada, I have finally witnessed power outage. My first reaction to the power outage was “God don catch […]

The use of the death penalty – the world’s ultimate cruel punishment – has decreased in sub-Saharan Africa according to a recent report released by Amnesty International. This is good news for sub-Saharan Africa and […]

I would want Bola Tinubu to do us all a big favour and move away from these taunting, tantalising and brain-wracking sweet statements to sitting on the governments he helped put in place to ensure […]

In its second bi-monthly meeting held on March 25 and 26 this year, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria delivered a pleasant surprise in the form of a minor cut to […]

I love tourism. At every opportunity to travel both within and outside Nigeria, I always squeeze time to engage in sight-seeing around the precinct of where I stay. When I was in Geneva for the […]

In the mid-1980s, the International Monetary Fund proclaimed the hoax that before Nigeria’s economy could improve, it must adopt a marketplace economic policy, liberalise the importation of consumer goods and devalue its currency against the […]

With the heightened race for the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly, it is pertinent for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to take the right decisions to avoid a repeat of […]

The activities of the legislature are largely misunderstood by a majority of Nigerians even after twenty years of democratic rule. The reason is not farfetched – the incursion of military rule which greatly set the […]

Chairman Christian Chukwu who hails from the current Enugu State and arguably one of the finest footballers this country has known, is down with prostrate cancer. He was one of the longest-serving captains of the […]

In a video that went viral very recently, the Honourable Minister for Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, traced Nigeria’s problems to 1986, when “some brilliant men from Harvard and the World Bank persuaded Nigeria to devalue its […]

With the heightened race for the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly, it is pertinent for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to take the right decisions to avoid a repeat of […]