A FRENCH proverb – wise as all proverbs are – says, “For desperate ills desperate remedies.” Those who have found fault with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala “for the transfer of US$300 million and British Pounds £5.5 […]
“When I was growing up in this community, there were no latrine, bathroom and clinic,” former President Olusegun Obasanjo said while recalling his childhood in Ibogun village, a rural community in Ifo Local Government Area […]
Without a referendum, it is impossible to determine exactly who is a Biafran and we cannot take IPOB’s framing as definitive and final. But we can say with certainty that not all Igbos are Biafrans […]
A fall reminiscent of “Humpty Dumpty,” the character in the old English nursery rhyme. An ignominious exit. That was the sad and abrupt end of the erstwhile enviable love affair between maverick Portuguese football manager, […]
On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Wole Soyinka, professor and Nobel Laureate, appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s programme, Hardtalk and added his voice to the growing international discourse on Nigeria, especially the issue of the […]
I had an unfortunate encounter with a security agent at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Tuesday, December 22. I had just passed through the immigration and customs desks and was trying to find […]
The USA PATRIOT Act or the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” is a set of laws created to deter and punish terrorist acts […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the N6.08 trillion budget proposal for 2016 by the Federal Government, may throw the country into severe economic recession, like in the case of Greece. The party […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday host his first Presidential Media Chat. According to a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President will answer questions on […]
Foodstuff, others to get N427.5m A FLEET of new exotic cars is on the way for the Presidency. The BMW salon cars for principal officers are likley to cost N3,630,000,000, going by the 2016 budget […]
THE leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed regret for referring to President Muhammadu Buhari as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile in his radio broadcasts. […]
BBC Hausa’s Jimeh Saleh was granted exclusive access to Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa forest in north-eastern Nigeria. Travelling with the Nigerian army, he went to see how far the region had come since […]
LAGOS — THE Federal Government, yesterday, explained how it would fund the N5,000 monthly welfare payment to vulnerable Nigerians just as it reaffirmed that the Boko Haram insurgency had been technically suppressed. The minister also […]
Of the columns that have appeared in this space every Tuesday this year, one in particular clings in my memory, but not on account of its impact, the controversy that trailed it, and the abuse […]
It took just one Christmas message tweet by Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s special adviser on Media and Publicity, to re-ignite what has been a brewing online war between the so-called “Jonathanians” or the latter day, […]
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may devalue the naira further if it is found to be in the nation’s interest, saying hard choices would be made next year. The Director, Monetary Policy Department, Mr. Moses […]
The 2016 budget of the Federal Government which President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled before the National Assembly last week differs in two respects, I think, from other budgets in the last ten years. The first one […]
It is time for Edwin Clark to come out of his shell by apologising to Nigerians as his inactions or greed have led many people to their untimely deaths. He needs to free his conscience […]
IF many people were surprised at the merger of Power, Works and Housing into a consolidated super ministry, very few if at all would dispute the choice of Babatunde Raji Fashola as the right man […]
THE 48 pages of Karl Marx remain the shortest and most powerful economic treatise ever written. That Marx failed to grasp the fundamental cunning of capitalism is not his fault – coming from a German […]
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