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Save Nigeria’s Import-Dependent Economy

Recent official statistics regarding the Nigerian imports of goods, products and services of varying sorts from foreign countries are comparatively…

Fuel Subsidy Removal: Let Reason Prevail

Despite protestations from organised labour and the majority of Nigerians, it appears the federal government has made up its mind…

A Senate Without Vision

David Bonaventure Alechenu Mark, the Nigerian Senate President, courtesy of a cruel irony, was in that accustomed mood of sadism.…

National Honours: Where Awo And Achebe Differ

Professor Chinua Achebe, the world renowned literary giant, is a man for who I have the greatest respect. This illustrious…

Harmony In Matrimony

I am sure we all wonder why there were only a few cases of divorce in the olden days. As…

Okada Restriction Must Be Fully Implemented

The recent clampdown on the ubiquitous commercial motorcyclists by the Lagos State government is a move in the right direction,…

What Happened To Uwais Panel Report?

Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the…

Lotachukwu Ezeudu: Memo To The Police And Prisons

Both the Inspector-General of Police and the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Prisons ought to take an urgent interest in the sad…

New Hope For Efcc?

Since the suddenly removal of  Mrs. Farida Waziri as the chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) few days…

In Support Of The Senate

The Senate yesterday passed the bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in the country to the excitement of Nigerians. At least this…

Jonathan And His Nigerian ‘Houphouetistes’ (2)

The Ivorian overseer awarded a first contract of over 300 million euros to French company, Bouygues, for the construction of…

Ojukwu: A Titan Who Won’t Die

A telephone call startled me awake at 3.41 a.m. last Saturday. Still gripped by sleep, I fumbled in the darkness…

Whose Interest Are You Protecting? Open Letter To Alhaji Mustapha Maisikeli And His Trovan Victims Forum

Dear Alhaji Mustapha, We are a civil society organisation dedicated to advocating for better approaches to delivering development to the…

Jonathan And His Nigerian ‘Houphouetistes’

The scope and depth of the global economic crisis is so overwhelming. It is inevitable for the management of the…

Death Of An Icon: Ikemba (Dim) Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

Prior to the 1966 coup which ushered in General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, very few people in Nigeria had ever seen soldiers…

Amosun And The Security Challenges In Ogun

We are at a loss as to what the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun is doing about the incessant…

Let Them Have Our Skulls Instead

The buzz from my mobile phone distempers my precious silent time. A time I scoop up all the extraneous fall…

Waziri’s Sack And The Future Of EFCC

To every discerning observer of the polity, the removal of Mrs Farida Waziri as the boss of the Economic and…

Aid To Africa And UK’s Gunboat Diplomacy

In spite of pockets of criticisms over the rationale for and relevance of various development programmes being undertaken on the…

Mistakes Men Make In Marriage

Men, you often don’t mean to nag, but you may be making mistakes that risk ruining your marriage. In fact,…

Living Your Own Life

Only a negligible number of people are determined and brave enough to take control of the wheel of their lives…

Boko Haram: Time For Action

Hearing horror tales from a distance has a way of injecting a feeling of apathy and disconsolate nonchalance on the…

Lagos Can Do More To Fight Crime

Governor Fashola’s threat to revoke the Certificate of Occupancy of any property whose owner is a landlord to armed robbers…

Is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Suitable For This Job?

When news came in that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been appointed minister of Finance and coordinator National Economic Management Team,…

Don’t Increase Sufferings Of Nigerians

Since 1999 when Nigeria again embraced  democracy, its citizens have not stopped complaining about some policies introduced by their rulers.…

Achebe And The Company He Would Not Keep

In addition to being one of the world’s most extraordinary writers, Chinua Achebe – the David and Marianna Fisher University…

Jonathan’s 7-Year Single Tenure Revisited

The furore over the President’s single tenure has by now subsided and appropriately this is an anspicious opportunity to look…

Time To Check Activities Of Killer Drivers

The suggestion by the Ekiti State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Francis Udoma that stiffer penalty…

Time To Reclaim Nigeria (4)

If this was an isolated incident, you wouldn’t mind when the president talks about wooing investors. But those who live…

Trial Of Asiwaju: A Tale Of Envy And Political Desperation Of The Pdp

When the world received the news of the trial of Emeritus Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Asiwaju of Nigeria and…
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