Editorial

Succour has come the way of the oil and gas industry as its efforts at communicating issues to stakeholders has received a boost after a lingo compendium was reintroduced to the public with reinvigorated and […]

Boko Haram and ISWA may have won this battle, we must win the war! While the actual number of soldiers and locals killed in last week’s surprise attack on the 157 Task Force Battalion at […]

The first China International Import Expo (CIIE) ended in Shanghai on Nov.10, 2018. Under the theme of “New Era, Shared Future”, the CIIE had attracted 172 countries, regions and international organisations, more than 3,600 companies […]

Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most experienced politician alive. Not Obasanjo. Not Buhari. Not Jonathan. Atiku’s political experience was forged in the hurly burly of the endless transition programme that Nigeria’s foremost soldier of […]

Last week, the Senate was reportedly unanimously set to probe Federal Government’s Special Intervention Fund (SIF). The Senate ad hoc Committee, headed by Senator Ibrahim Gobir, was directed by the Dr. Bukola Saraki-led Senate to […]

Perhaps someone other than yours truly is beginning to be seriously concerned whether this Nigerian project is working or will continue to work. The recent concern has to do with the former president, Goodluck Ebele […]

As Socrates, the Greek philosopher rightly identified, knowledge runs well with virtue. If knowledge can be taught and learned so can virtue. He believed that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” And so did […]

Another embarrassing power outage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos the other day, which left passengers stranded for hours, is yet another sad commentary on public service in the country. It is a […]

The diversity of America shows up on Thanksgiving dining tables as new immigrants prepare and share the dishes from their homeland… People have something to be thankful for. I am thankful for family and friends…and […]

The Canary is a small songbird that was used in the coal mining industry to detect carbon monoxide, though this practice was stopped in the UK in 1986. The expected lifespan of the canary is […]

The reality is that electricity generation has since been demystified away from this idea of large power grids. Young people everywhere have developed smarter, more clever ways of generating electricity and the future is alternative, […]

Inflexible as ever, President Muhammadu Buhari recently knocked advocates of a fundamental restructuring of the country as “lazy” people who could not define the term. Rather than use the opportunity of his meeting with the […]

Youth unemployment has remained a major issue for decades in Nigeria and it is not abating. On the contrary, it is becoming a monumental problem both for governments and families. A prominent traditional ruler, Oba […]

I once had dinner at the home of Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Prize Winner. I had gone to New York with Journalists from Asia, South America and Africa to the Campus of Columbia University […]

Like sprinters awaiting the sound of the gun to start the race, the two leading contenders for the coveted Aso throne, President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar, have rolled out their policy documents. They are […]

Governor Rauf Aregbesola has demonstrated that human beings can make impact in any given society, not necessarily because of wealth but because of ideas and it has since been said that ideas ruled the world. […]

It started as a rumour recently. The occasion where the news was spurned was the burial ceremony of William Ibori in Oghara as most members of the PDP family converged on Oghara to lighten the […]