Opinions

In the beginning As at the time I came into office, several things had collapsed. From banks to stock exchange, they had crashed. Inflation was at 15.6percent three months before I became Central Bank Governor; there was already instability in every sector of the economy. When I look back, I thank God for the people […]

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is not my favourite person and I have differences with him on many issues. I must however commend his immense courage for speaking out and exposing the monuemental corruption in the government that he once served and that has now decided that […]

Pablo Picasso once said that “Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo’s statement might find expression in men of God, who consistently tell their followers to always be students of dream.  According to these men of God, whatever eventually comes to be first took form in the spiritual realm.  Today, I am persuaded to agree […]

Nothing has been more gratifying in recent times to many Nigerians than the dethronement of the man who went about as if he were the ‘Emir’ of the Nigerian financial instituions, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. As Mr Adebayo Adeleke, General Secretary, Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), said in a report filed by the News Agency […]

President Goodluck Jonathan finally wielded the big stick on Thursday as he sent Mallam Lamido Sanusi, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on immediate suspension. The President further ordered Sanusi who was due to end his tenure of office in June 2014 to hand over to the most senior Deputy Governor of the […]

News filtering in about the purported suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by the President is the most egregious desecration of the rule of law and the principle of legality in Nigeria to date. It is unsurpassed in its blatant illegality and immorality. The decision is symptomatic […]

Introduction Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is quick to point a finger at people, forgetting that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. He fittingly plays Pontius Pilate who seeks to avoid personal responsibility for the execution of Jesus Christ yet he was liable. At other times, he plays the ostrich, living in self denial. […]

Politics, especially in a democracy, should characteristically be some sort of a leveller; creating the equality we so desire amongst ourselves. Of course, there is hierarchy in politics, but at the same time there are some democratic tenets that give undue powers to some undeserving elements, simply because they have been ‘elected’ into office. Take […]

As soon as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the timetable for the 2015 elections, political pundits and ordinary Nigerians alike began querying the chances of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan to be re-elected for a second four-year term. Even with the much talked-about National Transformation Agenda of the President, some political observers openly asked […]

One of the first major challenges that confronted President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, when he assumed power, was how to deal with the mass protests of January 1, 2012, following Government’s sudden hike of petrol pump prices from N65 to N141 a litre.  The explanation for the increase was that scrapping the fuel subsidy would save […]

There was general public optimism when Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, returned for a second term as the Finance Minister and also Coordinating Minister of the Economy, and promised strict discipline in granting imports duty waivers during her tenure.  In contrast, however, almost three years later, the Minister admitted that government has since granted about N170bn duty […]

The recent sacking of four Ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan was not only contentious in style, but the exercise was done in the most bizarre and indecorous manner; at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, which portrays the President as callous, insensitive, vicious and lacking in judgment and character over something as elementary as personnel […]