Between poverty alleviation and wealth creation
Last Thursday, the World Bank stated that the number of the poor in Nigeria would increase by between 15 and…
Did President Buhari really say that?
As part of his reaction to the gruesome and senseless murder of rice farmers in Zabarmari, Borno State, penultimate Saturday…
Nigeria: Lessons from Pope Benedict XVI
‘Having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, ...’ Pope Benedict XVI shocked the whole world with the announcement of his…
Political class and the ticking clock
The notoriety of Nigerian leaders for complicating very simple matters with a view to bamboozling the public is legendary. They…
Celebrating Tribune at 71
When his actions, writings and utterances are subjected to analyses, it becomes crystal clear that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was propelled,…
Fake workers getting real money
EKITI State government was last Wednesday informed that it had been paying almost N20million monthly to ghost workers spread across…
The Enugu-Okigwe Road accident and will of God
LAST Thursday, a low-bed articulated vehicle collided with a fully-loaded bus conveying 61 school children and two teachers along old…
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:…
Only a revolution can stop this revolution
The EndSARS protests that have spread to every part of Southern Nigeria and some parts of the North started after…
When will the borrowings stop?
DURING the presentation of the 2021 budget, tagged Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience, President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that the…
Nigeria of my dreams: Prostrate at 60, prosperous at 70
In 2010, former president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, said that Nigeria “is critical to the rest…
Labour: It’s time for intellectual engagement, not aluta
Unless there is a last minute volte-face, the nation’s labour body will tomorrow embark on an industrial action to force…
On the road to July 1967
Less than two years after the governing council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, dismissed Professor Richard Akindele for…
Subsidy removal: More money for govt, better life for Nigerians?
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, while stressing why it would be difficult for his government to reverse itself on the removal of…
Worst time to be a Nigerian
This year, 2020, will go down in the history as the worst year ever for many Nigerians. Not even during…
Amotekun and future of the Yoruba nation
Rising insecurity in the Southwest arising from the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers forced the people of the…
Help, these doctors are sick!
With the extent of psychological battering that Nigerians are daily subjected to by members of the political and ruling classes,…
Nigeria’s growing army of mad youths
ACCORDING to a consultant psychiatrist at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, Dr Michael Agbir, there has been a…
Chinese loans and Nigeria’s future
Although Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Transportation Minister, has tried to make light of the precarious situation the country has found itself…
The prophet, the promise and a country in disarray
Napoleon Bonaparte, the French General, must have been deliberately cheeky when he counselled that the best way to keep one’s…
