The other day, the Presidency announced, with gusto, that President Muhammadu Buhari had signed Executive Order 6 into law. I was miffed. Executive Order 6 means there have been five earlier Executive Orders! Executive Order […]
I had written an article some weeks ago on the Kemi Adeosun matter titled “Ungolden Silence.” I had said in that piece that it was wrong for Mrs Kemi Adeosun, who is Nigeria’s Minister of […]
It’s a tale of different stokes for different folks. While some communities are daily lamenting the burden of excessive and outrageous billing by electricity distribution companies, thereby seeking to be given pre-paid meters, some communities […]
The rule of law is precisely what it says: It is the rule of lawyers and judges. It is not the rule of presidents, governors and politicians. Generals are, by experience and training, men of […]
I have given this broad portrait to paint a picture of where Nigerian politics is, and to all aspiring office seekers, including the experienced ones, I offer the following simple instructions, cynically, but we must […]
If general elections were meant to determine the person who can best serve a constituency, then a direct primary, in my opinion, will elect the best person who will be most capable of winning a […]
There is something unseemly about the sanctions and the circumstances around the sanctions issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the unfortunate five: MTN Nigeria and four financial institutions. Indeed, there are too […]
In the third week of August 2018, two Black stars took a final bow from the earth after successful careers that made them international figures. One of them, the first to take a bow on […]
Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA reports calls for full industrialisation and value addition development of certain crops as game-changers in the efforts to develop the economy. Cocoa, cashew, palm produce and groundnut were major foreign […]
As the nation marches into another general election, we would like to draw attention for the umpteenth time to the problematic and skewed nature of our Republic, the nature and structure of which are dubious […]
In an interview with the Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy, Abuja, David Young, Abdullahi Abubakar, an imam who helped save scores of Christians from being killed during the recent killings in Plateau State, […]
Each person is an embodied mind. The mind is like a bottomless pit. We walk around with it. It drives us. We sometimes drive it. It sometimes overflows, connects, and engages with other minds. In […]
Nigerian regulators shook up the corporate environment considerably last week when they slammed a combined N5.87 billion fine on four banks and ordered MTN Nigeria to repatriate $8.1 billion that it improperly transferred abroad. The […]
In overlooking the overriding context for China’s seeming largess, the One Belt, One Road policy of President Xi Jinping, many who hail the largess coming through him miss the point: Context provides meaning. In 2015, […]
The Presidents of African countries converged on Beijing last week for the 2018 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. President Muhammadu Buhari’s delegation included at least four state governors and seven federal ministers. The […]
Six months after Usman Yusuf, executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was recalled from suspension, he has been enmeshed in a fresh crisis with the governing council of the scheme accusing him […]
…anyone familiar with the private sector in Nigeria cannot but notice how so like the bigger economy it is. It is a very corrupt place. Which, truth to tell, is not a Nigerian failing. For […]
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has told the operatives of the reformed Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, to desist from checking citizens’ bank account details. The IGP also warned the FSARS operatives not […]
He was more famous in Akure, that madman of Ado Ekiti. How else did we hear so many of his exploits on the streets of Akure than they did in his home town of Ado? […]
The Esama of Benin will be 84 years old on Tuesday. I have known him for 19 years since he was 65 years. But nobody gets to know the Esama well enough to situate him […]
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