Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. So says the English Nobleman, Lord Acton, Member of the British Parliament, 1865-1886. Spare a thought for the Owelle, Rochas Okorocha, the flamboyant Governor of his own special fiefdom […]
Last week’s reported attack on the 157 Military Task Force Battalion in Metele, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists shook Nigerians to their bones. The reason for the shock was because of both the high […]
Nigeria’s debt stock increased by three per cent from the N21.68tn recorded in December 2017 to N22.4tn recorded in December 2017 and to N22.2tn ($73.21bn) at the end of June 2018. The Director-General, Debt Management […]
“There was no file I treated that must not first pass through him (Oyetola) before getting to me. He is a major contributor to the success of this administration. He is not going to be […]
The palace of the Lamido of Adamawa was agog on Sunday, the 25th of November, 2018 with people from all parts of Nigeria and abroad. Most of these people were splendidly dressed in all colours […]
The 2019 Nigerian Presidential elections are just around the corner and the electorate are going to be faced with the age-old problem of electing one from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly( – and […]
The year 2018 is on its death knell. That knelling relentlessly brings Nigerians closer to the 2019 General Elections at a pace quicker and faster than we all imagine. Therefore, one question Nigerians are already […]
There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women —Kofi Annan (1938-2018), former UN Secretary-General. I am among millions of Nigerians who can’t wait for the day God will bless our […]
But, nearly always, a Panglossian outlook means that our budgets will be underachieved annually. And in the present case, just about every revenue line fell short of expectations in the January-August period. That the Buhari […]
Ikeogu Oke Last week, a certain friend, a northerner, mentioned to me that some djinns had – or have – been dangling on an imaginary pendulum swinging across our political landscape. To our interlocutor, who […]
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) This one might have a certificate. They call him the Evil Genius. He’s not a hunchback but he carries the burden of guilt, like Cain, everywhere he goes. He didn’t kill his […]
The PUNCH reported last week that the “Central Bank of Nigeria has injected over $10.97bn into the forex market between January and October this year, to defend the nation’s currency, the naira, against other major […]
Samson Folarin Twenty-six-year-old Benjamin had prepared himself and spent five days fasting and praying to secure a student visa at the United States’ embassy. His widowed mother had spent her savings to pay all the […]
LAST week’s “What is Adebayo Shittu still doing in government?” irked and jolted the Minister of Communications in the APC/Muhammadu Buhari administration. Having admitted that he did not observe the mandatory one-year national service administered […]
Having listened to the first radio broadcast by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and read the transcript of the his second broadcast on November 17, certain matters arising from the said […]
As the industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters its fourth week, the union has vowed not to return to class until its demands are met. This was disclosed […]
If you want to know how much of a rabble-rouser a typical pious Nigerian is, just broach a conversation on religion. In the last eighteen years of electoral democracy practice in Nigeria, nothing has threatened […]
South- South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, took a swipe at the Presidency, saying that when the time comes for the people of the South-East to produce the President of the country, nobody can stop […]
Among the myriad of conflicts relentlessly decimating lives in many states across the Federal Republic of Nigeria, two in the Northern region of the country stand out like a festering sore thumb. These are the […]
Against colonial rule, under the jackboots of apartheid enforcers of the National Party of Afrikaners and confronting the inhumane politics of Sani Abacha, strikes, protests and demonstrations are in order. In fact these are the […]
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