Christian Nestell Bovee, a famous New York writer, once asserted that “False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into […]
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos has granted injunctions restraining President Goodluck Jonathan and other relevant government agencies from carrying out the order to relocate the $500 million oil project from LADOL Free Trade […]
Whatever its flaws in the last 16 years, democracy has served us well. Yet the current spat between the legislature and the executive over the proposed amendments to the constitution shows just how far we […]
THE run of good luck was sure to end for the largest party in Africa, or is it the world? The party destined to be in power in Nigeria far into, no, far beyond eternity. […]
Our outgoing president cuts a sorry figure these days. Since he lost and conceded the elections, under normal circumstances, he should have been touring the states, giving valedictory speeches and reminding people of his fulfilled […]
It was President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (90) who first introduced the idea of having Ministers of State in a Presidential System of Government. He could be excused for the introduction, for he was a […]
If PDP and the President had known that they may not make it in the 2015 presidential elections, I am dead sure they would not have looted our treasury with reckless abandon. If they had […]
DURING the presidential election campaign, General Buhari observed in his “Manifesto and Vision for Nigeria” that: “The general trust level of politics, politicians and political leaders is at an all-time low. One may ask why? […]
What is President Goodluck Jonathan going to write in his handover notes? Will he talk about why he refused to sack the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in spite of the monumental allegations of […]
Recently, leading Nigerian newspapers reported that President-elect Muhammadu Buhari was straining at the leash to abolish Minister of State positions. He would turn the page on the aberration of a minister of this coexisting with […]
Ever since the East African country obtained independence in 1962, she has had no peace. In 1972, there were mass killings of the Hutus – the tribe in the majority by the minority Tutsi who […]
Today the level of confidence in Nigeria is remarkably high, and President-Elect General Muhammadu Buhari has been described by many as embodying ‘the promise of change’. Hardly surprising given that one of the reasons he […]
Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s acceptance of defeat after the March 28 presidential election, many people both home and abroad lauded his spirit of sportsmanship and immediately proclaimed him a statesman. By that singular action analysts […]
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Caretaker Committee, yesterday, told the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, that President Jonathan lied to the Igbo nation about awarding contract for the construction of Second Niger bridge and major federal roads in the […]
Federal systems emerge in two broad ways both of which have epochal implications for development. First are the coming-together federal systems. Second are the holding-together systems. The first is voluntary and often a response to […]
There are undoubtedly Nigerians from different walks of life with their experiences of Nigeria and many may include sacrifices made. Be it the ordinary Nigerian in remote villages; the retired old man who was a […]
I have always been fascinated by the words ‘youth’ and ‘used’ especially in their onomatopoetic rendition as they relate to the youths of Nigeria and their fathers and grandfathers who still delude themselves that they […]
Nobel laureate who has been called the conscience of Nigeria told a Harvard audience on Wednesday that ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”Wole Soyinka speaking during a speech at HarvardHarvard Gazette “They […]
It would seem that the “missing $20 billion” saga has come to stay. In Nigeria, once they say a large sum of public fund is missing, misappropriated or stolen, it becomes part of our story […]
The fuel situation in the country appears to have defied all solutions, as the scarcity worsened yesterday, heightening the sufferings of motorists and the public in general. Despite promises made by oil marketers, Monday, that […]
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