A few years ago when the Central Bank of Nigeria suspended its policy of pegging cash deposit and withdrawal limits otherwise referred to as cashless policy...
You can accuse Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of being ‘’down-to-earth’’, considering his pint-size. You can also accuse him of intellectual exuberance, but you cannot tack corruption to...
On behalf of our voiceless compatriots, we feel the need to apprise you with the unpalatable result of this subsisting shutdown of our borders. Sir, the...
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what...
President Muhammadu Buhari recently set up an Economic Advisory Council, to replace the country’s Economic Management Team. He also moved some departments and agencies of government...
39 Steps was a foreign novel they made us read while in secondary school. The reason they put it in our curriculum till this day beats...
The momentous discovery of oil in commercial quantity at Oloibiri in Bayelsa State in 1956, apart from the attendant political effect has had a dual impact...
President Buhari shares paternity with Paul Biya of Cameroon in leadership style. Both men are joined by the umbilicus of repression and abrasion. In 2010, Bertrand...
Oddities they say make the news. This time-honoured saying explains the recent reaction elicited when Rauf Aregbesola, upon assumption of office as the new Minister of...
It has been over 45 days since a presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, has been detained without bail by state agents; and one...
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa got a chilly reception at the burial ceremony of the Great One, Robert Mugabe. He was booed for Afrophobia exhibited against...
‘’What will Osinbajo do now?’’ I asked a senior colleague. He blurted: ‘’He has his role cut out for him already. He is in charge of...
Going by the counter, trans, cross and to some extent intercalary conversations coming from the court of public opinion over the simple decision rendered recently by...
Democracy is freedom; freedom to exist and to exercise the full catalogue of natural rights. The quality of democracy in an ordered system is assessed by...
Very unlike me, this was one public officer I never really connected with. I saw his personality and tenure as grey and dull. In fact if...
(A SATIRE) I am getting sick and tired of the raging violent conflicts overseas and the political mess here at home which is consuming us day...
The most trending news in Africa and particularly in Nigeria at present is the news ofxenophobic attack in South Africa. In Nigeria, the main stream media...
As background to this piece, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1963. He founded ZANU, a...
I have pondered on Atiku Abubakar’s case against President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential election petition tribunal. I have also cerebrated on the counter arguments of...
The hashtag #SayNoToXeniphobia has obviously been the trend in recent times. It has also made the “rainbow nation” gained some notoriety across Africa and around the...
In the construction of any business strategy, Kenichi Ohmae, a world-acclaimed management consultant and author of; The Mind of a strategist, among other things noted that...
The Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration in Nigeria (2010 – 2015) has generated quite a number of post-tenure publications which significantly, in varying degrees of articulation, veracity...
How do you measure the virility of an administration; its potency to impregnate the economy, infrastructure and welfare of citizens? Should it be in the first...
Watch out for notorious con men from high places at work again in all African countries backed by their governments, court of law and politicians. Canny lawyers, Lobbyists, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Equity or Hedge Fund manager facilitated. Consultants use fake news to convince the world that...
The current Biafran struggle has meant different things to different people. For former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, it appears more of a specious opportunity to...
Reports say a Nigerian, who had gone to lodge a protest against the dispatch of his fellow countrymen by a ravening, xenophobic bloodhound in South Africa...
My favorite passage from the many essays by the 20th Century management theorist, prophet of customer-centricism, and dialectician, Peter F. Drucker, on the subject of change...
You know I respect lawyers for their ability to avoid emotions in arguments. They have been trained to quickly separate emotional thoughts in driving home their...
The glory of yesteryears education system in Nigeria has vanished like the vapours of a dewy morning. No vehicle can run indefinitely without a refuel, just...
A scathing detraction to professionalism in Nigeria is the customisation of public offices. Institutions are built around personalities rather than on principles and service. The corrugation...
“The country has not known peace since Buhari asssumed power” a Nigerian recently shared with me on phone from Abuja. From widespread insecurity, rising unemployment, violent...
When Nigerian contemporary political history is properly, objectively and dispassionately analysed and distilled, one name that would stand out prominently as a force to reckon with...
I am tired of these Africans. So, I called my wife and children abroad to warn them to be careful. Other calls were made to my...
The recent protest in Germany in which Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was harassed, chased around, subdued, and beaten naked like a palace pickpocket brought...
This is not the best of times to be identified as a Nigerian, especially if you are a Nigerian in diaspora. It is indeed the worst...
How are the Mighty Fallen? Some Nigerians have made the notorious lists of United States Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently. There were about 80 of which...
It has been 20 weary days since Omoyele Sowore was taken into a hovel of silence by the DSS. The outrage over his abduction and detention...
Asked how he was able to grow fifteen times, independent Singapore with a GDP of $3billion in 1965 to $46billion in 1997, and became the 8th...
The naked beating of Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Germany evokes painful lessons, particularly with Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and, of course, the continued detention of...
The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID)...
The Herdsmen terrorism in Nigeria has lasted because the victims are typically the ordinary people. Consider, for instance, two recent killings, in which the victims happened...
The assault of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Germany is unsurprising, but shocking. Unsurprising because it’s certain Nigerians would revolt against their leaders...
Permit me if the title sounds and looks academic. Well, there is nothing flowery about the situation we have found ourselves in this nation when we...
When politicians failed you, professors failed you, bosses failed you, banks failed you, relatives failed you, pastors and imams failed you: who is going to deliver...
There is pain. There is anger. And there is collective rage in the land. Nigerians are empty of options and are seeking avenues for a purge;...
Since the return of democracy in 1999 and even prior to that time, Nigeria has been governed by the same group of individuals. Those that truncated...
I have been prevaricating on this article. The idea has been quite compelling but not being able to ascertain the effects of my ‘rant’ made me...
Before he was given the heave-ho, Okoi Obono-Obla, ex-chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the recovery of Public Property (SPIP), bagged notoriety as a...
If anyone is looking for a perfect illustration and confirmation of the “coming anarchy” in Nigeria, that person needs not look farther than the on-going conflict...
One of the primary responsibilities of government is to provide – or regulate the provision of – efficient service to the populace. Successive Nigerian government has...
