Opinions

Politicians in Nigeria never learn, at least they never learn in time. Nigeria is now divided, not into two parts, but more. Safety of life has become very doubtful.  The heart of many Nigerians is becoming calloused with deep-seated anger and hatred in increasing degrees. Disappointment and fear are common emotions on our streets. The […]

As Boko Haram sadly pervades our lives, all manners of views and theories abound.  And that is how it should be.  We have to allow for all shades of opinion as we try to make sense of the calamity that has been forced upon our country.  But I think that in all of this, the […]

Before I begin my discourse on the modus operandi used by suicide bombers to carry out their operations, it is very important to make a clear distinction between suicide bomb attacks and other forms of terrorist attacks that are devoid of suicidal elements. As a matter of fact, suicide bombing is just one of the […]

  Financial crisis and increased responsibility for financial stability have focused attention on governance in central banking.  Achieving effective oversight of specialized technical functions – without undermining institutional independence – demands the right people, processes and culture.  This is why countries always ensure that their best of the best is picked to man their central […]

Having advertised its gross incapacitation, having demonstrated in word and deed its cluelessness on how to tackle the worsening security situation in the country perpetrated largely by the Boko Haram insurgency, President Goodluck Jonathan at least, finally decided to read the riot act, saying enough is enough. The President, last Thursday vowed total war against […]

Reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), cancelled the distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) in 205 polling units across Akwa Ibom State, is worrisome, and certainly a damning self-indictment which raises fundamental questions over INEC’s credibility to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2015. The failure to pull through an elementary exercise […]

Sweet Dieziani, Sweet Goodluck and Sweet Crude was the title of a piece I released for the Democracy Day of 2013 asking this woman to do something unique to fight  poverty in Nigeria. I advised Dieziani Madueke to gather some more powerful women within Aso Villa to kick start the process of saving Nigeria from […]

President Goodluck Jonathan earns full blame for the controversy that has erupted over the 2014 budget; in what is certainly another political miscalculation and embarrassing error of judgment which portends unfavorable results for the country. After signing the 2014 Appropriations Bill into law, the President last Friday, formally handed the document to Finance and Coordinating […]

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, thank you for calling us together to address the deeply disturbing abductions of over 270 school girls in northern Nigeria by the terrorist organization Boko Haram some five weeks ago. The global community has been horrified by this barbarous act. Within the context of the U.S. government response, the Department […]

  As a Muslim, I feel personally embarrassed by the kind of evil that Boko Haram has perpetrated in the name of my religion. The tragic snatching of the Chibok schoolgirls appears to be the tipping point in Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram. What started as a river of national rage has grown into one […]

The loud but needless controversy over the aborted visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok in Borno State to meet with some of the parents of the over 200 abducted schoolgirls in the town, is yet another needless and contrived distraction against the backdrop of the supercilious Boko Haram insurgency and the embarrassingly obvious spectacle […]

Late last week BBC News announced that the President, Goodluck Jonathan would finally visit Chibok, the scene of a colossal and ongoing national heartbreak, before jetting off to Paris for a conference.  A few hours later, NBC News in America reported that Jonathan has cancelled the visit.  Something was murmured about security fears.   Everything became […]