Issues/Policy

The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, recently said he would be considering the establishment of special courts to take care of corruption cases in order to give the issue of corruption the deserved attention and urgency after […]

To show his determination to rid Nigeria of corruption, the president elect, General Mohammadu Buhari, after his inauguration on Friday, will unveil his anti-corruption strategy, Vanguard learnt yesterday. The Strategy will be such that will […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo fired a fresh salvo the way of President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, when he looked back at the last eight years and returned with a verdict: The country had been poorly […]

From the crisis that rocked the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) in 2013 to his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the wake of the 2015 general elections, […]

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Director, Media and Publicity, Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation typified the political saying that in politics there is no permanent friend or enemy, what is permanent is interest. When the former Minister of Aviation […]

Jonathan’s legacies FEW men are born with a luck like Goodluck Jonathan’s. The Nigerian president’s trajectory up the pile of politics is rapid and phenomenal, hence its description as accidental  a stroke of good luck. […]

This piece is intended to provoke positive steps towards Igbo presidency. Two quick caveats are necessary. I presume that ethnic and religious considerations are part of our politics and will be for a while. Consider […]

IT’S only a matter of time before Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, becomes prayer points in churches, mosques and other places of religious worship. After all, here’s a man whose name almost entered the infamous ‘Book of Perennial […]

PRESIDENT-ELECT Muhammadu Buhari’s order charging all security personnel attached to him, official escorts and convoys to obey traffic rules, has expectedly generated the kind of debate that all changes do. One good thing is that […]

For several years now, concerned Nigerians have clamoured for the outright scrapping of all forms of  subsidy on petroleum products because the scheme, which at best, has been made to serve narrow personal interests rather […]

PETROLEUM now seems more available in more parts of the country after four weeks of contrived scarcity. During these four weeks, Nigerians have almost literally been through hell and back. In the first two weeks […]

Midway through the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidency, I wrote in an article that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, was the biggest loser in the government of […]

ABUJA- THE thirty- Six State Governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’s Forum, NGF yesterday asked the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala to as a matter of […]

EACH time the Kabiyesi, His Royal Highness, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, Oba of Lagos, speaks in the public, he often talks with facts. When His Royal Highness dropped the bombshell that people are going to instigate […]

FEW years ago, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wrote a book by this same title. I had the good fortune of reading the book few days ago. What resulted from my reading it was a light-bulb moment, […]

Courage is manifested in various forms, in a vast array of situations that may even appear to be studies in contrast, yet the common element is always uniformly recognisable. Courage in governance may be seized […]

It is generally accepted that most Newspaper Editors know more than they let on. The ability to know what to use and what to withhold is part of your information management; it is also part […]

Anyone who thinks that the administration of the incoming president, General Mohammadu Buhari would tolerate the surveillance of oil pipelines and waterways by private individuals or groups should better think again as there are now […]

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 […]