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…I am of the opinion that the gaffe in the handling of the president’s 50-day medical vacation must have resulted from the operations of forces beyond the media office. The apparent fall-guy was the reading […]

Worse, though, than the fear that the public sector may not optimise additional debt issues is the Fund’s claim that last year, the federal government’s interest payments-to-revenue ratio doubled to 66 percent. I must confess […]

The death of Dr. Onukaba Ojo on Sunday March 5, 2017 in tragic circumstances while trying to avoid armed robbery attack on the Illesa – Akure road on his way back from Abeokuta to Abuja […]

Mallam El-Rufai has displayed a rare courage, which will open a flood gate of similar open denounciations of the Buhari presidency in order to save the APC from going down in infamy along with the […]

All of them were hired by all of us to do a job, and each is to be judged on its own merit. They are not to be defended and protected simply because you like […]

This year is already turning out to be a very interesting one. One interesting thing is that it is a year of election in Anambra State and all eyes are focused on the state. Many […]

The eventual winner in the war between the Presidency and the Senate will be the average Nigerian. One who has had to sit over the years and watch his leaders loot the treasury dry. One […]

In essence, nothing has changed. Managers of our economy have not learnt any lessons from the straitened circumstances we found ourselves in after the bottom fell out of the global oil market in 2014. Everywhere […]

The forces opposed to the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday released a new seven-page letter by the State Security Service, SSS, expatiating on the […]

Promoting U.S. exports and the expansion of American business into new markets creates jobs at home and supports development and stability abroad. Unfortunately, rather than making it easier to take advantage of opportunities in emerging […]

On February 22, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, published the names of 12 lawyers it said had been shortlisted for appointment as Court of Appeal judges after an intensive two-day screening exercise that involved 187 […]

The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote; and Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, saw their net worth declined by $3.2bn and $4.2bn, respectively in the past year, according to Forbes 2017 World’s […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, wrote a comprehensive letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on his performance and governance so far, and he had recommendations on steps Buhari must take. “Mr. President, Sir. You have […]

The Kano Basic Education Week (the first of its kind in Nigeria), a brainchild of Governor Ganduje, is an initiative that aims to assess the critical importance of basic education as the bedrock or foundation […]

It was inevitable that a deluge of stirring tributes and a contagion of saccharin smiles would pervade the unveiling last weekend of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest monument, the Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State, to […]

This is about Stephen Nyitse, the young man who on the day of the coronation of the new Tor Tiv managed to beat security and went straight to where the king’s coronation seat, stool, throne […]

On Monday January 30, the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Hameed Ali, gathered journalists in Lagos and announced that officers of the agency on “information patrol” intercepted 661 Pump Action handguns concealed inside […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigerian leaders must be tough and “ready to bite the bullet”. Speaking at a seminar in Kaduna state on Monday, Obasanjo said we have not made progress as a nation […]

Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Ajayi Boroffice, representing Ondo North Senatorial District, tells LEKE BAIYEWU about his life, family and politics How did you become a lawmaker in the National Assembly? My journey […]