Guest Columnists

Long buried truths on the political persecution, instead of prosecution, brutally directed against Chief James Onanefe Ibori, are emerging.   Dr. Michael Owoko’s essay titled The Problem With EFCC, appeared in The Cable online newspaper, June 25th 2024, began energetically; “In every government or institution, there is a corresponding invisible hand that remote-controls its affairs […]

This story is about a man who set out to achieve a seemingly impossible task: to build the largest refinery in Africa, right in the heart of Nigeria. Aliko Dangote, already a titan in the cement industry and various other sectors, embarked on this ambitious project with the vision of not only meeting Nigeria’s massive […]

  IT was a bit of an emotional period for me when names of people who fought for democracy kept popping up in the Democracy Week. It was quite good hearing from the family of Mr Alao Aka-Bashorun, Father of the Nigerian Pro-Democracy Movement. He led many, including lawyers, against the rapacious regimes of Babangida, […]

It would be good if we all realise the truth that nobody is going to build our country for us. As of now, the country needs to be built, brick and mortar, little by little. It is a good sign that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has set up an Economic Team that looks quite formidable. […]

Precisely on May 29, 2023, Nigeria witnessed another successful transition from one civilian administration to another. This is, no doubt, a milestone as it marks the 5th successful transition since the return to civilian rule in 1999. Perhaps, signaling that democracy, despite its imperfections, has come to stay in Nigeria.    But this is a […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State asserted himself as its true number one law enforcer when he apprehended motorcyclists for riding in the wrong direction along the Lagos-Badagry expressway. In a short clip which went viral on social media, the Governor, evidently incensed, directed his security aides to arrest and detain the defaulters who were […]

When in 1992, James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist uttered the quip on television: “It’s the economy, stupid”, little could he have realized that he had pronounced a phrase that would reverberate beyond the United States and become a benchmark in other presidential campaign processes. Carville spoke in the context of the 1992 US Presidential […]