Corruption for all Nigerians by 2020
ALTHOUGH the National Corruption Survey published by the National Bureau of Statistics, which showed that Nigerians paid N400billion as bribes…
Let’s put govt on its toes
THRICE since the advent of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari has come to the financial rescue of state governments with…
ASUU: Make this the final battle
IT is such a distressing thing to see undergraduates who should be engaged in rigorous academic activities play football in…
I stand with Charlie Boy
THE protest by Our Mumu Don Do Group, led by Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlie Boy, asking President Muhammadu…
Nigeria: Living in the past, killing the future
NIGERIA is toeing the path of the dinosaur. Dinosaur, a huge reptile, became extinct consequent upon its failure to accept…
Should Nigerian govt in good conscience collect taxes?
MORE than any previous government, the current government has harped on the need for Nigerians to pay tax. The government’s…
Before it is too late
THE greatest challenge to our nationhood is the lack of any form of bonding between Nigeria and its nationals. There…
Dangote and the Nigerian enterprise
I love Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man. But it is quite difficult not…
The AGF’s faux pas
THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, had shocked many Nigerians when he told newsmen…
Restructuring: Will it ever happen in Nigeria?
GENERAL Ibrahim Babangida last week added his voice to those who had been clamouring for the restructuring of the country.…
In times like this…
NIGERIA is speedily moving from the precipice to the tipping point. According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book, Tipping Point:…
Fools still die
THE thrust of the masterpiece, Fools Die, by the late Italian-American writer, Mario Puzo, is that life is too precious,…
Are foreign billionaires immune to Nigerian law?
When it was reported recently that the revered Justice Atinuke Ipaye of the Lagos State judiciary(Ikeja Criminal Division) admonished the…
In Nigeria, the poor are damned
ON Tuesday last week, while returning to Abuja from Kano, a member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Garba Durbunde,…
The 5 billionaires and the rest of us
THE other week, Oxfam International came up with a report that five Nigerian billionaires had enough resources to end extreme…
Buratai: Beyond the warning
THE warning handed down by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai, to army officers and soldiers hobnobbing…
Tears for my fatherland
A casual conversation with a civil servant acquaintance this past week brought home the grim and gloomy reality of the…
Nigeria: Lessons from Pope Benedict XVI
POPE Benedict XVI shocked the whole world with the announcement of his intention to vacate office on February 28, 2013…
Mr President, please, save Magu
THE Senate again, last Wednesday, declined to confirm Mr Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes…
For the political class, the clock ticks
THE notoriety of Nigerian leaders for complicating very simple matters with a view to bamboozling the public is legendary. They…
