Just how did we get here? How did we get to a situation where our annual budget proposal would be a mere compilation of figures totally out of sync with society’s needs, circumstance and needs? […]
These, certainly, are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd) popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against this corrupt cabal who […]
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode inaugurated a committee to showcase Nigeria’s iconic city and state at 50 last week. To chair it is our own Wole Soyinka, whose trajectory has been tied to this city. Lagos deserves […]
The greatest resource that we have as a country is not our oil and gas reserve in the Niger Delta or the countless solid mineral resources strewn across our land from Abia to Zamfara. The […]
As events unfold in relation to the 2016 federal budget estimates currently at the National Assembly, it is becoming difficult to separate wild nightmares and dreams from reality. The budgeting process has degenerated to a […]
It is difficult to ignore the narrative of Senator Baba Garbai (Borno Central) on the current state of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State. For one, he represents an important segment of the state’s […]
It may not be an extravagant exaggeration to paint General Murtala Muhammed as a hurricane. His brief rule as a military head of state in the 1970s had the intensity of a hurricane. So intense […]
No historical sketch about the struggle against imperialism in Nigeria will ever be complete without a mention of the impact of the Zikist Movement; a radical revolutionary youth body which was founded 70 years ago […]
Guess the latest unionist agitator in town? Comrade Senate President, Omo Baba Oloye, Dr. Bukola Saraki! Did you catch him pump his fist in the air the other day? Ah, that would make Adams Oshiomhole […]
With the Code of Conduct Tribunal trial of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, set to begin on March 10, some senior lawyers in the country are divided over whether or not the Senate […]
•Gbajabiamila: Buhari not to blame for inconsistencies in proposal The Senate will pass this year’s budget before the end of next month, Ali Ndume said yesterday. The Senate leader said the 2015 budget would end […]
Four days to the February 19 date given by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to the nation’s security agencies to produce the former ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, there is no […]
Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are flooding Nevada with volunteers ahead of this week’s key nominating contest but they face a problem – the addresses, phone numbers and other personal data they […]
A Metropolitan Police chief, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, will be grilled by Members of Parliament this week over allegations that Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service were involved in a ‘‘deliberate cover-up’’ of damning evidence […]
The mood inside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is shifting from mistrust to a growing consensus that a decision must be reached on how to end the global oil price rout, Minister […]
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia on Sunday said that fighters of the Boko Haram sect trained in his country before coming to Nigeria to carry out their heinous acts. According to Reuters, Mohamud said […]
THE Senate has warned the Chairman, Northern State Governors’ Forum, NSGF, and Governor of Borno State, Kassim Shettima, against plan by governors of the region to obtain loan from Saudi Arabia. Shettima had led four […]
President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; advisers and ministers still operate in the belief that good intentions and reputations are all you need to run a new government successfully. Buhari, especially, must still be […]
When I read in the newspapers that the President, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, was complaining in Ethiopia that our judiciary is his major headache in the highly dramatised programme of anti-corruption directed largely towards members of […]
Our country is bleeding profusely from the blows inflicted on it by the apparently unending Boko Haram insurgency; another possibly prolonged round of blood-letting has started with the pro-Biafra movement which recently claimed reportedly over […]
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