Economic burden of Senate’s forgery trial
By Nwobodo Chidiebere THE forgery case filed by Federal Government against the Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and two others was revisited on September 28,...
View ArticleAssets sale and the battle against recession
IT is quite unfortunate that as Nigeria turned 56 last Saturday, its fortunes had so dipped that no respite could be proposed for its ailing economy other than the sale, or stripping, of its assets....
View ArticleLet change begin with Buhari’s Igbo problem (2)
By SKC Ogbonnia THIS outlook coupled with a stoic indifference by the president triggered outrage in the land. It straightaway provoked the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra...
View ArticleWhy we must stand with Jibrin (2)
THE suspension of Abdulmumin Jibrin by the House of Representatives was predictable. When he was dismissed by the Speaker, Dr. Yakubu Dogara, as the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, it...
View ArticleWhy Dogara is ‘Politician of the Year’
By Turaki A. Hassan Since he assumed office as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has left no one in doubt that he was poised to leave an indelible mark in the sand of...
View ArticleDiaspora Fundraising: A hoax or candour
Succor is on the way to various communities in Nigeria, particularly to those towns and villages in the Southeast. In a nutshell, that is the tacit, and sometimes explicit, message most community...
View ArticleAso Rock and the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign
By Adebayo Briggs ASo Rock, the Presidential Villa, is the official abode of the Nigerian President known with an overwhelming power, conferred on him by the constitution. Nigerians from a distance...
View ArticleTinubu nominated Osinbajo as VP!
BY Tunji Bello Nothing strengthens deceit more than silence. And on an occasion like this, one often wonders why some people twist events and history in order to legitimise a mission. While ruminating...
View ArticleWhat Buhari should do now
By Musa Simon Reef Nigeria is still battling forces of Boko Haram that has killed no fewer than 10,000, apart from declaring a caliphate and taking control of over half of Borno State in 2015. In the...
View ArticleTerrorism: Beyond Turkey unto Iran
By Sandra Awulu It took the dehumanising deportation of Nigerian students for the Federal Government to wake up to the reality that Turkey is not its friend, and that whatever they have by way of...
View ArticleBridging the gender gap in Kaduna’s agric sector
By Yusuf Ishaku Goje Agriculture remains the most viable means to address the problems of poverty, food insecurity, gender inequality and unemployment. In Nigeria, the agricultural sector continues to...
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Nigeria: Not where it should be
ON Saturday, the government and people of Nigeria marked the nation’s 56th independence anniversary. Though low-keyed in all respects, it offered all of us an opportunity for stock-taking and sober...
View Article5 years of GOtv in Nigeria: An appraisal
By Linus Acholonou Ibadan, Oyo State. October 11, 2011. The importance of the location and date may have slipped from consciousness, but the occasion was one that announced a sea change in the...
View ArticleDanbatta’s one year at NCC
By Yakubu Musa IN the last one year that Professor Umar Garba Danbatta assumed office as the boss of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), he has through his 8-point agenda improved...
View ArticleRecession: What the government should do
By EZE CHUKWU BEFORE the last general elections which saw the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari from a newly formed political party take the centre stage as the new number one citizen, many...
View ArticleCrusaders for Coops & Rural Dev.
I dedicate this column today to my brother, colleague, friend and schoolmate of NIJ Class ’87, Comrade Emmanuel Chijioke Ibeleme, a quintessential journalist. Although Crusaders for Cooperatives and...
View ArticleValuing and improving teachers’ status
By Tayo Ogunbiyi To a large extent, the destiny of every nation is shaped, reinforced and actualized in the classrooms. The quality of lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, politicians,...
View ArticleManaging recession: The Duke, Obi examples
By Achum Tobechukwu Valentine Donald Duke and Peter Obi have three striking things in common. Both men were former governors in their respective states of origin. Both men are the same years of...
View ArticleDemocratic discontent and lessons from afar
By Oseloka H. Obaze Discontent is a hardcore of Nigeria’s partisan politics mosaic. Today, major Nigerian political parties – APC, PDP, APGA and LP – are all beset by crises fostered by discontent....
View ArticleWike and the raid on judges
LAST weekend’s midnight assault that took place simultaneously on the residences of some judges in Abuja, Gombe and Port Harcourt ,has no precedent in the political history of Nigeria. That it...
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