As a nation, Nigeria and most of her Federating states are currently faced with serious socio economic issues/survival dilemmas. Although this in my view has been on over time but as a nation that plays politics with everything, we have been living in denial. But as it currently stands,...
OPINION
The central interest of this piece is not to spot leadership faults in Nigeria, or proffer solutions to what the present administration is not doing well to salvage the socioeconomic well being of the poor masses. Rather, the present piece is out to perform two separate but related functions....
It is a common knowledge that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) recently rejected the Federal Government proposed N5, 000 for 40 million poor Nigerians when the subsidy on Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) is removed. While describing it as ‘nonsensical’ the argument that the complete surrender of the price of...
Nigeria as a country is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse federation, which consists of 36 autonomous states and the Federal Capital Territory. Apart from this indispensable fact, it is also religiously diverse but the two most prominent religions practiced are the Islamic religion and the Christianity religion. As rightly...
There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is plagued with development challenges such as widespread poverty, insecurity, corruption, gross injustice and ethnic politics. Also, evidence abounds that the nation is in dire need of attention/support from, interventionist’s organizations (private and civil society organization), to help unleash economic development, promotes growth...
Life is ensconced in different strokes. Penultimate weekend, when many of our country men and women were enmeshed in revelry, savouring delicious meals and sipping choice wines with their families and friends at various events, it was heat for our gallant soldiers tucked away in the theater of operations...
On Friday, 12th October, 2021 the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA) at its 15th general meeting, elected Nigeria’s number one Taxman, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Muhammad Nami as its fifteenth President. The forty-seven member country organisation voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Nami,...
This piece stemmed from an unusual occurrence/event which glaringly did more than anything else to support the claim by well-meaning Nigerians that healthcare professionals do not feel bound to seriously observe basic standards of care or are generally unwilling to accept responsibility for their failure to deliver expected quality...
Nigeria is usually a drama platform and a centre of comic art. We need such to live long given the many challenges we face as a people such as insecurity, disunity and reckless use of power.Or how else can we describe a situation where an anti graft agency will...
The removal of Nigeria from the religious violators watch list by the Biden-led US administration in the run-up to the visit of Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State is a triumph of diplomacy and sagacity over hate-driven foreign policy, itself founded on false propaganda. President Muhammadu Buhari is truly...
Introduction Recently I had a need to access the WhatsApp group for my class at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh in Surrey, England, and the last time a post was made in the group was on July 20, 2021! Instructively it’s important to note that the Admin of this group...
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” – Charles de Gaulle When de Gaulle, the French General, President and statesman, wrote this nearly a century ago, he couldn’t have known that a Nigerian would be...
The best of Nigerian editors gathered in Abuja last month for the 17th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC). The theme was, Media in Times of Crises: Resolving Conflict, Achieving Consensus. It was all about national security including food security, energy security, among others. The Managing Director/CEO of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing...
Prof Obadan was my best economics teacher at the University of Benin (Uniben). Soft spoken but highly articulate and intelligent, he was the real deal and made plenty sense always in and out of the classroom and I looked forward to his lectures. Unsurprisingly I scored good grades in...
It was recently reported that a few days after the panel constituted to investigate the ENDSARS hostility in the state submitted its report, the Delta state Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, as a follow up action inaugurated a Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in the state, with...
Speaking in absolute terms, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson did not contain the Nigerian leadership arena in mind when they echoed a postulation tagged ‘Ignorance Hypothesis ‘in the subsection of the second chapter of their book ; Why Nation Fail. A postulation which very broadly ‘maintained that poor countries...
It was Adebola B. Ekanola, a specialist in African philosophy and philosophy of Peace, who, while writing on the topic; Towards an enduring social Peace in a Violence Ridden Society; From a culture of War and violence to a culture of peace and Non-Violence, stated that a good starting...
Introduction After the launch of Nigeria’s new digital currency tagged the eNaira on Monday, 25th October 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari, I jumped onto the eNaira wagon and here is what I found in the early days. 1. The eNaira Speed Wallet missing in playstore – On Thursday, 28th...
Dire warnings of the end of the world are as old as civilization itself. But each year as the countdown to United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) begins, they grow in volume and intensity. Recently, senior United Nations officials raised the alarm of “world conflict and chaos” and mass...
Recently, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Mahamat Annadif said that the spate of insecurity afflicting Nigeria and other West African countries is a spillover of the Libyan crisis. As a solution, Annadif called for a regional...