Opinions

Mr Speaker, right now, and as a matter of urgency head into the lower chamber of the National Assembly, and become an All-Nighter until the morning of December 3rd, 2014. Yes, it is okay to do this, as is the People’s House. Everyone from the streets of Nigeria to every other street across the world, […]

The story of David and Goliath remains a popular and fascinating tale.  A young shepherd slays a seasoned and —by some accounts— gigantic soldier.  This story plays into the narrative of the underdog emerging triumphant despite overwhelming odds.  And everybody loves a victorious underdog.  Everybody likes to see the big, bad bully get his comeuppance. […]

Some stories are best told straight. Just when it seems the Jonathan administration has hit the lowest ebb in governance capacity and signaling for real national rebirth, it manages to find a further depth in ignominy. The dramatic turn of events in which the Nigerian police unleashed mayhem at the hallowed grounds of the National […]

Forty-four years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra War, Nigeria finds herself on the brink of another civil war. Nigerians have waited in vain in the last five years for those who should know to show some fortitude and speak out. Last week, a few of them did.  The suggestion, as reported by Sunday Punch […]

After months of incessant taunts from Boko Haram insurgents, following audacious attacks on major towns in three northern states and their subsequent declaration of an Islamic caliphate over that area, the exploits of the Nigerian military in routing the fundamentalists from Chibok and the killing of several insurgents, are a heartwarming development. The seizure of […]

—A Flashback to the Illegal Shonekan-led INC It  is  no  longer   news  that  the  Speaker of  The  Federal  House  of  Representatives,  Aminu  Tambuwal, has  since  defected  to  the  All  Progressives Congress(APC).In  this  viewpoint,  I  want  to  make  a  case  that  the  PDP  must  be  ferocious    and  undiminished  in  the  struggle  to  flush  Alhaji Waziri  Tambuwal    […]

The CBN recently restricted direct sales of its official dollar reserves to some sectors of the economy; consequently, the importation of electronics, information technology, generators, and telecom equipment, finished products and invisible transactions will henceforth be funded with higher priced dollars from the Interbank foreign Exchange market. The CBN’s apparent objective is to reduce the […]

Amidst the uproar that followed the partial removal of fuel subsidy in January of 2012 came the announcement that a new federal government programme would be created to ease the effect of government’s decision on the average Nigerian. When the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) was created and a committee inaugurated in February of […]

Nigeria’s renascent democracy has been threatened by blatant corruption and sundry abuses, but these absurdities have assumed melodramatic proportions ahead of the 2015 general elections. The corruption and cronyism in Nigerian politics got the most devastating advertisement after the main political parties decided to charge exorbitant nomination fees from candidates, in a brazen effort to […]

I woke up this morning feeling very angry for a reason I cannot grasp.  I looked around my room and went through my mind trying to locate the reason for my anger but couldn’t.  Then it hit me – Jonathan Goodluck is going to declare to Nigerians what they all know since – that he […]

There are genuine public concerns in recent months, that with the receding price of crude oil in the international market, our heavy dependence on oil revenue may diminish any promising prospect for inclusive economic growth in Nigeria. Although, sluggish economic growth in Europe and China and the rapid development of shale oil, together with increasing […]

It is not clear to what extent the present move would shame Nigerian leaders to bring about the desired change, but the dismal state of Nigerian roads is now a campaign on social media which has gone viral on the internet. Posting under the hashtag #MyRoadIsWorseThanYours#, Nigerians have been sharing pictures of the country’s worst […]