Issues/Policy

Report that the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari on the approval given to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to enable it undertake a review […]

In what could easily pass for one of the most breathtaking and delicate rescue operations ever undertaken, 12 youth footballers and their 25-year-old coach were rescued on Tuesday after they had been marooned in the […]

WITH scant regard for the agonising plight of road users, Julius Berger Plc, the contractor saddled with the reconstruction of a section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, has invented misery for motorists and commuters. For the […]

Kudos needed to be given PREMIUM TIMES, the particular press outfit which, against all odds, broke the story… The truth, however, is that power merchants, oil czars and Villa warlords are stoking its embers in […]

After all said and done, perhaps, we can find a place in our hearts to accept the futility of our efforts to be completely transparent. This is an invitation for us to reflect on our […]

After all said and done, perhaps, we can find a place in our hearts to accept the futility of our efforts to be completely transparent. This is an invitation for us to reflect on our […]

Extrapolate this Ricardian insight to industries and economies, and it is obvious that neither trade nor imports are the problems with underperforming economies. At the margins, arguments may be made for identifying and supporting champions […]

Economic Renaissance by Henry Boyo lesleba@lesleba.com 08052201997 In September 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari received his Nigerien counterpart, Mahamadou Issoufou, in Daura, Katsina State. Issoufou had reportedly visited, to ask after President Buhari’s health and also […]

I echo an American politician who said “let no crisis go to waste” by allowing our foreign born kids to come home at any age to offer their diverse expertise without the burden of NYSC, […]

The Nigeria political space is a theatre of absurdities. Absurdities at a level that will be unbelievable, albeit unconceivable to those from climes dubbed developed democracies. What with a President who seem to have been […]

First hand, I witnessed, not as an observer but from a vantage position of a budding initiate, the epic reign of terror in Ibadan political gymnastics, ably superintended by no other person but Baba Adedibu, […]

There comes a time in the life of every country when all men and women of conscience must rise up to be counted. Nigeria, without doubt, is at that junction now. Within the last 3 […]

This is the title of a historical novel written by the Italian writer, creator of Inspector Montalbano, Andrea Camilleri. This is the book that Alaba read and, without closing the book, started reading again from […]

Since his ascension to the throne of Dabo four years ago, Kano has seen an era of unprecedented peace, stability, progress and economic opportunities. His Highness has not only brought back, but has elevated, the […]

Truth is, Adeosun has lost her moral high ground to continue to occupy that very important office. A perjurer and dodger cannot be a fit and proper person for the position of the nation’s “chancellor […]