Opinions

In a recent online interactive program with Nigerian youths, the Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, gave the assurance that Nigeria does not have a debt problem, as the ratio between our debt and our nation’s total output (GDP)  is a mere 21 per cent, which compares favourably with […]

Whether anyone likes to accept it or not the bitter truth is that 80 per cent of our GRADUATES are unemployed in Nigeria today whilst 51 per cent of our PEOPLE are also unemployed. As a frightful and grave consequence of these shocking statistics, which I happen to believe may well be a world record […]

The ovation that welcomed the announcement of a forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the alleged non-remittance of billions of petrol dollars into the Federation Account is understandable. Given the pervasive corruption and abuses bedeviling Nigeria’s oil industry, anything capable of sanitizing the system can only be assumed to be in […]

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the suspended and victimized Nigeria’s apex bank chief is already my man of the year for 2013- he has oscillated from my enemy to my friend, my whistle-blower and my hero. In Nigeria where religious and tribal sentiments have beclouded our reasoning that we do not see anything good in someone from […]

There is no doubt that the people of Nigeria are exasperated with the continued wave of bad luck as observed in the non-stopping  daily acts of Northern killings, Southern kidnapping, public thievery, educational unrest,  labor protest, and  the ever widening  ill-health and psychological trauma among children and adults. The eradication or favorable reduction of these […]

  Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, will on Monday, March 17, 2014, inaugurate the 492-member National Conference whose task is to redefine “the way forward for our nation”. The initial antipathy to the conference, it seems, has given way to cautious optimism. Of course, there are still people who do not see the opportunity this conference […]

He describes himself as a Language Expert. Yes, that is not contestable. However, somebody should remind Ebere Wabara what Moliere said about education, intelligence, foolishness and wisdom; that a learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. Apart from always writing to impress (he hardly makes sense), Ebere appeals to me as the […]

The alarm bell on the rate of corruption in Nigeria sounded by the United States, though hardly surprising, is scandalous and unacceptable, given that Nigeria’s diverse and growing security challenges are partly rooted in widespread poverty and unemployment, which in turn, are outcomes of pervasive corruption. The damning disclosure on how the administration of President […]

 Despite the  presidential victimization of  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s sacked Central Bank Chief, the truth is that a $20 billion dollar theft has been exposed and the sheer size of the theft is treasonable, especially with 80 million people living below $1 dollars daily. $20 billion dollars have been stolen, hoarded, hidden and unremitted by […]

Nigerians generally believe that large foreign reserves are useful for defending the exchange rate of the naira.  However, our total foreign reserves actually comprise two primary income streams; the first is the Excess Crude Account (ECA), which consists of all crude oil revenue that is in excess of budget projections.  In the recent past, over […]

Nigerians can easily recall the last nationwide fuel subsidy strike embarked upon to protest against fuel subsidy increment by the federal government which was abruptly terminated by the devastating January 20, 2012, Boko Haram terrorist attack in Kano. Many will remember how the attack succeeded in diverting our attention away from the burning issue of […]

Reports that 13 students collapsed at Ogba Junior Secondary School in Lagos after inhaling a gaseous emission at the school premises are alarming and worrisome. It is equally unacceptable that the incident occurred five months after 25 students in the same school fainted after inhaling a similar emission, whose exact cause and origin the Lagos […]