Opinions

As Namadi Sambo, the Vice President and Chairman, National Council on Privatization (NCP), began Thursday, to formally hand over the physical assets of all 14 PHCN successor-companies to their new owners, it certainly is no comforting news that the winners of the first wave of the privatization of power plants and transmission lines are threatening […]

The armoured car scandal at Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA is still raising dust and spreading rapidly at an unprecedented scale. The vigour with which proponents of the ‘Sack Oduah’ mantra are going about their vindictive campaign raises a series of questions bordering on Nigeria’s anti-corruption institution; its antecedents, the motive for the ‘sack Oduah’ […]

The controversial court judgment last Friday, that the $15 million bribe allegedly given by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, to former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, should be forfeited to the federal government because the Delta State government could not prove that Ibori stole the money from its coffers, is […]

…it is imperative that we arm ourselves and our people with a genuine revolutionary culture and a discipline and invincible revolutionary organisation, unshakeably committed to the principles of social justice and equity, to the liberations of our people from material and cultural deprivation and implacably opposed to all forms of exploitation of man by man. […]

Prologue “Listening to the agreement that was signed by the Federal Government as Comrade Uche Chukwumerije read out, I was really wondering whether this was signed or it was just a proposal. But when he concluded, he said it was signed. It only shows the level of people the executive sent to go and negotiate […]

The Lekki-Epe express road concession project may yet to have its fair share of accolades as well as disapproval. The recently announced plan to re-acquire the concession rights on the project by Lagos State Government opens up a new vista of debate on the continuing controversies over the project. The buy-out which has already passed […]

It appears there is no limit to the odium Nigerians would endure in the hands of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; again in the news for the wrong reasons. The decision by the First Lady to receive an honorary doctorate degree in faraway South Korea, even as Nigeria’s public universities remained shut down, for […]

Sometime last month when the issues at the Nigerian Population Commission started gathering momentum, I hurried into Abuja and tried to meet with the now former Chairman Eze Festus Odimegwu. It was a tough one to get his telephone numbers but I was determined. After two days of fruitless search, a top executive in a […]

Until Wiki Leaks came along, the Pentagon Papers published by New York Times was for the past four decades the largest leak of classified documents in American history. Though Barack Obama had promised Americans the most transparent administration in history, the vigour with which he has pursued leakers since the floating of Julian Assange’s infamous […]

Early this year, I visited the residence of an elder brother of mine, Senator Yisa Braimoh, in Abuja on his invitation, for us to meet minds on some issues connected to his political engagements in Edo State.  Those close to the senator, who represented Edo North in the Senate from 2007 to 2011, would attest […]

I have to confess that I have always had a soft spot for Stella Oduah, the currently embattled Aviation Minister.  The way I heard it, through abundant doggedness and feminist wiles, she forged a successful little business empire for herself in our dog-eat-dog business environment.  In a place like Nigeria, you’ve got to admire that. […]

As the strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lingers beyond the fourth month, government’s insensitivity to a serious national issue deserving prompt action has degenerated into a posture of haughty nonchalance, going by the administration’s reaction to the crisis. The last fiat by Mr. President to his team to end the […]