Making sense of anti-corruption war
The National Assembly has been very active lately in its effort to unearth corrupt practices in ministries, department and agencies.…
With NDDC, you can take poverty to the bank
When the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was conceived and birthed in 2000, it was for the purpose of facilitating…
NLC: Time to pause and ponder
IN its reaction to Federal Government’s announcement of the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, the…
The Nigeria narrative: Omelet without eggs
While addressing troops recently at Batsari in Katsina State, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, reiterated the conviction…
Death, the ignored reality
Life begets death. The day a person is born, the race to death tees off. For some, it is a…
Security: It is Buhari’s call, not Buratai’s
President Muhammadu Buhari, last Thursday, gave a damning verdict on the nation’s security and intelligence chiefs when he told them…
Do black lives matter in Nigeria?
The sheer wickedness of his murder by the police turned George Floyd into a global figure as the world rose…
Solving employment problem with special public works programme
Solving employment problem with special public works programme President Muhammadu Buhari understands that his main job is job creation and…
Ondo State’s car-driving ghosts
An audit report submitted to the Ondo State House of Assembly revealed that 88 ghost workers got N48.2 million as…
Sadiya Farouq, the strainer and the wicker fish-trap
NIGERIANS are given to nitpicking. Even when a public officer is working round the clock to give his or her…
Sani-Baba and the 40 thieves
During his almost five-year hold on the country, late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, stole oodles of money stashed…
Sani-Baba and the 40 thieves
During his almost five-year hold on the country, late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, stole oodles of money stashed…
Between Nigeria’s palliatives and USA’s stimulus
NOTHING reveals the heart’s intents better than expressed words. So, it is not coincidental that while some countries tag their…
Making patriots of Nigerians
The conditions given by the Nigerian government to Nigerians living abroad who expressed the desire to be evacuated from their…
COVID-19: Nigeria between the devil and the deep blue sea
Before the advent of COVID-19, Nigeria was already in a dire strait. In 2018, the Brookings Institution in a report,…
COVID-19: It has come, it will pass
A scientist who worked late in the laboratory went into a walk-in freezer to get some stuff and, unintentionally, closed…
COVID-19: Lessons for everyone
No one ever envisaged a time when the rich and the mighty would be as helpless as the poor and…
Day devil visited Lagos
Sunday is regarded as the Lord’s Day but the last one, March 15, 2020, was the Devil’s Day. It was…
Minister Ehanire, I beg to disagree
LAST Friday, Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, gave a cheering report of the nation’s second novel coronavirus case testing…
Now that coronavirus is here
The heave of relief sighed by Nigerians with the statement by Reddington Hospital management last Wednesday that the China national…
