Ambode’s midas touch on infrastructural development
Idowu Ajanaku The close correlation, which exists between solid and stable infrastructural development and sustainable economic development of any given place cannot be overemphasized. With the benefit...
View ArticleLessons from Dankwambo’s lecture at UI
Sunday Saanu AS part of the activities marking the 60th anniversary of University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA), which came up recently at the University of Ibadan (UI), Gombe State governor, Dr....
View ArticleBuhari’s last hurdle
Evaristus Bassy I subscribe to a civil society coalition whose membership is drawn mostly from the North East. When UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance in Nigeria invited me and...
View ArticleGrowing credits for Nigeria’s anti corruption war
Dauda Alli This week, top anti-corruption czars from Commonwealth Africa will be in Abuja for the 8th high level conference of the Commonwealth Africa Anti-Corruption Centre (CAACC).The Commonwealth...
View ArticleBayo Oguntunase: A memorial (1)
The day Baba Bayo Oguntunase and his wife visited me in February last year, I felt greatly honoured that the couple had to come all the way from the suburb of Ikorodu, which itself is another...
View ArticleCurrency swap and Nigeria/China cooperation
Charles Onunaiju The 16 billion Chinese Renminbi (RMB) or the equivalent of 2.5 billion U.S dollars currency swap deal, sealed between the Central Bank of Nigeria Bank (CBN) and the People’s Bank of...
View ArticleOkowa’s Ekiti masterstroke
Jesutega Onokpasa I rather pity those after Delta State Governor, Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa’s job. Their rather conceited boast in their factually baseless ability to render him a one-term Governor,...
View ArticleThe cancer epidemic
Adeola Salako Gradually, cancer, a non-communicable condition that can be terminal if not detected early is fast becoming a huge health challenge in Nigeria. There are over 200 different types of...
View ArticleAPC: The broom of a broken family
This has been a dizzying season in Nigerian politics. In the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC),the crisis, the divisiveness and mud throwing that have racked the party, indeed should trouble the...
View ArticleNigeria/China currency swap deal
Ikenna Emewu The major issue of national discourse is the currency swap deal Nigeria entered into with China in the first week of May. Economists, bankers, businesspersons, industrialists, the media...
View ArticleBonn climate negotiations and other matters
Caleb Adebayo On April 30, 2018, the Intersessionals- a climate preparatory session done earlier in the year ahead of the main United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference...
View Article2019 elections: The gathering storm
Promise Adiele Nigerian playwright, Ola Rotimi’s play Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again satirizes an ideologically bereaved political class motivated by greed and avarice to the exclusion of all other...
View ArticleSweet codeine, bitter consequences
Nigeria is on the global hotspot on account of a codeine crisis brought into bold relief by an investigative documentary trending in the media. The documentary entitled Sweet Sweet Codeine, made by the...
View ArticleAPGA, constitutionality and Anambra State
Ray Okafor AS in other parts of the world, the art of politics in Nigeria peculiarly entails a lot of frenetic horse trading, pernicious intrigues, venal shenanigans and playing to the gallery....
View ArticleAnd you say ‘this is democracy?’
The last fortnight has been dominated by the miserable stories emanating mostly from the All Progressives Congress (APC), its local congresses, its attempts to select officials for its grassroots,...
View ArticleTrump and the Iran nuclear deal
President Donald Trump of the United States of America has predictably pulled out of the Iran Nuclear deal which was put together by the U.S. and France, UK, Germany and Russia otherwise known as 5+1....
View ArticleThe law and inheritance rights in Igboland
When I was growing up, I never thought I would lose any of my parents. In fact, I was thinking that we would live together forever. Thus, the last thing on my mind at that time was death of any of them...
View ArticlePolitics, governance and human development
Peter Obi From its essentials, politics is about attaining and using power in public life to be able to influence decisions that affect society. In principle, that should be a worthy cause, but what we...
View ArticleCodeine ban: Is tramadol next?
Kayode Ojewale The misuse and abuse of, and overindulgence in drugs have become a common occurrence in all age groups but more prevalent in adolescents and adults. Some become addicted to certain drugs...
View ArticleThe Oba Ewuare exemplar
Sufuyan Ojeifo I read with relish media reports of the Saturday, April 28, 2018 visit of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare 11, to the State of Osun during which he met with the...
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