Chi Onwurah, the Member of Parliament representing Newcastle Central in the UK House of Commons and my former colleague at the State House, Molara Wood, met recently at the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing […]
Not only are those who have not studied the areas they built flooded houses tending towards dinosaur-ship, so seems our ship of state. Mind you, learning at the same pace as the environment changes doesn’t […]
The recent ocean surge and massive flooding experienced across Victoria Island and Lekki-Ajah axis should be an absolute wake-up call to the Lagos State government, the federal government and every coastal state in Nigeria. The […]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says he cannot fight members of the national assembly because they are his personal friends. Speaking with statehouse correspondents on Tuesday, Fashola the executive and legislature mean […]
Power generation companies (GenCos) in the country are calling for an increase in electricity tariff due to “high business costs”. Ismaila Funtua, vice chairman, Mainstream Energy Solution, made this known on Tuesday while speaking with […]
In the prevailing circumstances surrounding the illness of President Muhammadu Buhari, his seeking of medical treatment overseas, the non-disclosure of the facts of his ailment to the Nigerian people, and the mismanagement of information surrounding […]
In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet; I am Abiku, calling for the first And the repeated time…. – Wole Soyinka The above quotation is the opening stanza in the eight-paragraph poem […]
ACTING President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday gave contractors handling the temporary bridge at Tatabu village in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State two weeks to complete the work. Tatabu bridge, which is one of […]
The ongoing public debate over the passage of the 2017 budget has ramifications that extend far beyond the labyrinth of power at Aso Rock, and it is deserving of a commentary on this column for […]
These are curious times certainly; times wherein regular and irregular occurrences confound us to the extent that as they happen as quickly as they do, one is left with the feeling of loss. The consequence […]
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the “hyenas and “jackals” in her husband’s kingdom will soon be sent packing. Aisha, who wrote this on her Facebook page on Monday, was giving voice to an […]
Electricity consumers in Festac area in Amuwo Odofin, Local Government, Awoyaya area in Ibeju Lekki and other areas in Lagos State, have bemoaned the poor power supply to their communities in the last one month. […]
THE recent disclosure that a presidential aircraft has been parked on the tarmac in a London airport since May 10, 2017 and the explanations offered by an aide to the President, Mr Garba Shehu have […]
Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared winner of the by-election in Osun west senatorial district. Adeleke polled a total of 97,480 votes to defeat Mudashiru Hussain of the All […]
The legislators have been saying that they have the ultimate responsibility for finalising the budget and they are right. However there is a process and they cannot just do what they like. Budgets have their […]
…one only hopes that this is not another fleeting national discourse, propelled by the sweetness of its rhetoric narrative than by shared determination. It is hoped that the inundation and preponderance of the argument for […]
legislators should not be spoken but demonstrated as regards his calls for a more developmental budgeting approach. Explaining this further, the minister declared: “In this context, it is left for Nigerians to then decide whether […]
Joseph Attah, spokesman of the Nigeria customs service, says some people are having difficulty in accessing the e-auction portal of the service because of the technical hitches experienced on the day it was launched. On […]
Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), says tax declaration should be consistent with the lifestyle of Nigerians. He said if someone says he or she earns N2 million and owns a […]
The federal government has promised to make public the list of suspected treasury looters. Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), made the promise while speaking with state house correspondents on Wednesday.
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