Did Minister Adeosun really say that?
DESPITE the seeming patriotic fervor that propelled Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Finance Minister, to tell the world that Western countries are…
A nation’s love for committees
Nigerian leaders’ love for committees is boundless. The first thing that crosses their minds when there is an issue in…
Another look at Nigerian education system
THINGS are on a seemingly inexorable decline in the country because of our penchant for failing to nip potential crisis…
Pray, what do these governors do?
These are difficult times in our country, no doubt, especially due to the slide in crude oil prices which has…
Winning through poverty
IT is disheartening that the level of poverty in the country fails to give members of the ruling class…
25.3 million Nigerian kids out of school?
Education Minister, AdamuAdamu, shocked the whole country when he said last Monday that 25.3million Nigerian children and youths are out…
Abnormality as the new norm in Nigeria
Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Professor Olanrewaju Onadeko, stunned the whole nation, last Thursday, when he said that some…
Search for crude oil in the North
Twice in three weeks, call for the intensification of crude oil search in the Northern part of the country came…
Dogara, Jibrin and budget padding
The general misconduct of those who occupy leadership positions in the country has pitted the governed against them. The leaders’…
Re: The need for strong institutions
A reader felt strongly enough about the penultimate Sunday’s offering in this column on the nation’s need for strong institutions…
Nigeria and the need for strong institutions
The near-constitutional crisis precipitated by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s issuance of a certificate of return to Dr UcheOgah as…
Nigeria: From too much money to no money
General Yakubu Gowon was reported to have said in his days as the nation’s military head of state that money…
It’s time to correct Aguiyi Ironsi’s faux pas
Before the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on…
From poverty alleviation to wealth creation
It is my considered opinion that successive governments have failed to take the vast majority of Nigerians out of poverty…
