Opinions

The Edo State gubernatorial election may have been postponed, but the untoward consequence of INEC’s decision is again giving Nigerian democracy a bad name. After repeatedly restating its readiness to hold the election, INEC shifted the vote to September 28, citing security advice from the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services (DSS), which […]

A seemingly responsible fiscal plan will become unimplementable, in the modern era, if the underlying monetary indices are out of sync with budget projections. Conversely, the stubborn sustenance of appropriate monetary benchmarks for inflation, cost of funds and exchange rate may still rescue the performance of an otherwise bad budget.  For example, if salaries and […]

With the economy in recession and the naira in free fall and inflation soaring, few Nigerians can escape the country’s economic troubles – and that includes Muslims, who are called upon to share the ram with the poor and less privileged, in line with Allah’s injunction. But the point needs to be made, and without […]

President Buhari on Thursday set out his vision for a better Nigeria, imagining an incorruptible paradise without bribes, where workers come to work on time, militants and insurgents lay down their arms, trash is thrown in bins, not the street, drivers don’t run red lights and internet scams are a thing of the past. The […]

Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, made a Facebook update today. Before I express any opinion on the said update, it is better to hear him out in his own exact words. Says Ogbeni Onanuga: “My daughter was on the Virgin Atlantic Flight that took off from Lagos to London […]

Shock snowballed into anger at the at Murtala Muhammed Airport II (MMA2), Lagos, last Wednesday, after Aero Contractors’s unexpected decision to close shop temporarily in the latest incident of airlines winding down their operations in the country. Apparently frustrated by low patronage, and in the wake of the new CBN forex policy that has cost […]

Let me start by asking an important question: who wants to kill racy introspection? There is a cacophony of voices telling the Muhammadu Buhari administration to close its eyes to the past; that given the enormous tasks that lie ahead, history and its consequences for our nation should be the least of the government’s preoccupation at […]

After years of misgovernance and suppression of their state’s immense potential, the people of Ondo have a chance to break these shackles and to move themselves toward the progress, justice and prosperity, which is their due. Ondo will not miss this opportunity to place itself on the correct path. For this to happen, governance of […]

Tokyo:International Conference on African Development, “TICAD 6” just ended in Nairobi, Kenya and in attendance were several African Presidents and Prime Ministers including our own Muhammadu Buhari and the co-convener of the conference, Shinzo Abe, the head of the Japanese government. The TICAD seeks a win-win partnership between Japan and Africa. A key objective of […]

Although Nigerian government officials have denied any diplomatic ruckus, a babel of angry and dissenting voices trailed the recent visit by John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State to Nigeria, with Rev. Supo Ayokunle, President of the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN), accusing Kerry of disrespecting the heterogeneous nature of Nigeria and showing monumental […]

In real terms, the Rio debacle, along with the totality of the circumstances surrounding it, is a sad commentary on the values and quality of those in charge of the affairs of the country. It underscores the yawning disconnect between the government and the governed in terms of priority and need. The Nigeria Olympic Committee […]

The disastrous outing of Team Nigeria at the just ended 2016 Rio Olympic games in Brazil was an experience abundant in lessons; not the least of which is the lack of focus and seriousness of purpose by Nigerian sports management officials, who stopped at nothing to make sure Team Nigeria put up a less than […]