Nigeria of my dreams: Let’s start the journey to greatness
In 2010, former president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, said that Nigeria “is critical to the rest…
Baba-Ahmed on Jonathan: Believe that, you’ll believe anything
DR Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Director of Publicity and Advocacy for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), while featuring on a television programme…
Debt: The destructive attraction
Despite expending 97.7 per cent of its earnings between January and May this year on debt servicing, the Federal Government…
Rivers VAT judgment and sentiments of brotherliness
The landmark judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt giving Rivers State government the right to collect…
Government and the chosification of Nigerians
It is shocking that despite the surging COVID-19 and the raging cholera with their attendant fatality and the brazen effrontery…
Buhari vs Ortom: A battle of minions
Ahead of the 2015 general election, President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State were quite chummy. Then…
Media, government, terrorists and the truth
There is a bond between the terrorist and the reporter. Globally, the reporter is viewed as the terrorist’s best friend.…
Restructuring Nigeria: Who will bell the cat?
Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, last Thursday, reiterated the call for the restructuring of…
Can a profligate country experience development?
Nigeria’s propensity for profligacy is legendary. It is this wastefulness, a by-product of corruption and incompetence, which has been responsible…
Agberos’ gain as the people’s loss
The special report by the International Centre for Investigative Report (ICIR) on how much the National Union of Road Transport…
Dangote and the Nigerian enterprise
I love Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man. Really, it is quite difficult not…
Weak leaders can’t build strong institutions
Nigerians were shell-shocked last week when the news broke that leaders of the National Assembly had perfected plans to block…
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…
Lifting 100m out of poverty: Good vision, poor strategy
While inaugurating the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) last Tuesday in Abuja,…
In times such as this…
Nigeria is speedily moving from the precipice to the tipping point. According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book, Tipping…
Restructuring: Nigeria’s opportunity to change her narrative
Before the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on…
14million out-of-school children and the looming disaster
AT the presentation, last Thursday, of a book, The Man, The General, The President, written in commemoration of his 84th…
What’s President Buhari’s complaint?
President Muhammadu Buhari astounded the nation last Wednesday when he switched into lamentation mood over the nation’s growing insecurity. The…
Malami’s gaffe and FG’s insincerity
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, unwittingly revealed the real reason behind the Federal Government’s…
Pray, Mr President, what should Nigerians understand?
President Muhammadu Buhari, while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, last Thursday, after observing the Eid…
