The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, recently demonstrated anew how rudderless and insincere national leadership is driving the country to the edge of failure. His “revelation” that the government’s oft-repeated promise to […]
The authorities should enforce safety standards on the waterways With the drowning of no fewer than 19 children in a boat mishap last Saturday in Lafiagi, Edu local government area of Kwara State, travelling through […]
President Buhari should sign the electoral amendment bill in the nation’s interest Penultimate Thursday, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnogen was an unusual guest at the Senate. He had been invited to appear […]
A warning by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Nigeria among other sub-Saharan African countries should pay attention to their rising debt profile and diversify their economies to avoid another looming economic crisis should not […]
DR. AKINTOLA, BENSON OKE Kay Zegar, the famous counsellor and multi-therapist, wrote about retreats as follows: “Retreats offer the benefit of physical, emotional and psychological withdrawal from the stresses and strains of everyday life: a […]
In July 2000, I spent one week in Monrovia, Liberia, running a women’s leadership programme. It felt like three months. I was based in London at the time, working with AMwA, an international development organisation […]
Plans by major oil marketers to possibly down tools and sack their workers over unpaid fuel subsidy the federal government is owing them immediately raise concern over whether the nation will enjoy a peaceful end […]
As the 2019 general elections draw near, it is a healthy development that the Buhari administration has invested a lot resources, hope and confidence, so that the exercise would be hate speech-free. The intent, for […]
Aside the 7th Schedule to the Constitution, section 290(1) thereof prohibits a person appointed to judicial office from performing the duties of his office until he has first declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed […]
The crux of President Buhari’s message is to those dutifully striving to make political capital out of religious divergences. Religious conflict serves no good. Though such conflicts may possibly pay arms dealers – quite literally, […]
Living in Nigeria of our contemporary time is like being engaged in a war. Many of our friends, neighbours and colleagues are departing or departed; they are going or gone and those of us who […]
Sources at the presidential whispered to me that President Muhammadu Buhari is considering “reshuffling” his cabinet. Since 2015, President Buhari has made no changes to his team. And despite demands for a rejigging of his […]
In a moment of psychological terror, anguish and angst, Sophocles, at a point of deep exasperation, in Oedipus Rex, said: “call no man happy, until he is dead!” Life did terrible things to Oedipus. He […]
Last week I was introduced to a young man who just “won” his party primary election and will be on the ballot in 2019, representing his constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly on […]
CONCERNS from within and outside our shores about the country’s unemployment scourge are genuine. With about 40 per cent of the youth jobless, and economic recovery slowing down, the European Union has advised the government […]
A planned increase in the salaries and allowances of officers of the Nigeria Police is bound to be like a Christmas gift to them. Their pensioners are also to benefit. The presidential gesture is well […]
A vignette: “A friend of yours confided in you that she intends to drop out of school to get married. Write a letter to her giving, at least, three reasons why she should stay in […]
The Managing Director, Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc, Mr Adeoye Fadeyibi recently advocated a new regime of electricity tariff in the country. The Chief Executive Officer of one of the eleven DISCOs that emerged following […]
Just two weeks to the general election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) fifteen people were reportedly killed in eastern parts of the country in clashes between troops and rebels loyal to William […]
Once again, as oil prices go down, oil producing countries shiver knowing well the consequences ahead should the trend continue. They are braising themselves for the cursed existence within a boom bust pattern. Nigeria, the […]
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