Opinions

I get confused these days reading many of the posts on social media, and text messages sent through cell phones, because of the kind of new English that young people now write. The English language is without doubt quite dynamic. In the last 200 years, it has lent itself to many innovations, as cultural, religious, […]

The plan by the Senate to inaugurate a new independent Transparency and Delivery Commission (TDC), as part of measures to review and improve its oversight systems is one more example of the odium that politicians have brought constitutional democracy into in Nigeria. It is expected that the Commission would be led by a working group […]

There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly. A summit on corruption will be held on Thursday in a city that is internationally recognised (by the IMF, among others) as a tax haven. It is being hosted by a politician who admitted last […]

  ISSUE 1: REAL COST OF FUEL Fuel queues have disappeared but prices remain high pan- Nigeria. Is the fuel subsidy sustainable in the face of flagrant disregard by the marketers of the set PPPRA ceiling price of N86.50k/ltr? · Pricing trend in the past 1 year demonstrates that Citizens in areas other than Lagos and […]

In another bad sign that the Nigerian banking sector is a den of pen and briefcase robbers, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last week, arrested the Managing Director of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, in Lagos. Earlier, the Commission’s agents visited the offices of Sterling Bank in Lagos,  during which the bank’s […]

As headwinds continue to hit the nation’s economy, with ominous signs about growth prospects, Nigeria’s low rating in the current World Bank Index on Ease of Doing Business, which outlines issues assailing economic activities in the country is a timely wake-up call for the Buhari administration; and one which must be treated with the urgency […]

Here’s the thing, it’s so sad to observe the negative comments currently being hurled at Tiwa Savage, owing to her decision to tell her side of her story with regard to husband’s recent suicide attempt. The one common thread running through these commentaries is that Ms Savage brought what should be private matter into public […]

Notions are that water is one medium through which pathogenic organisms are spread. The substantiation is that sachet or packaged water, which is the major means of drinking water in Nigeria, is not exempted of deadly organisms, due to its microbial substance. Unsafe water supply, laughable sanitation and shameful environment are fingered as the cause […]

“Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” “Wetin you see?” “My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something join.” “Talk make I hear” “No be dis Tiwa Savage and him husband matter? The husband wey say him wife offend am, he no gi am food, him wife […]

A sign of the alarming level of violence to which some parts of Nigeria have sunk in recent times is the rampant killing of innocent people and destruction of villages across the country by heavily armed audacious Fulani herdsmen; the latest being the invasion of some communities in Enugu State that led to the massacre […]

 “No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb  There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not Western education this time, but the right of […]

Culture is closely intertwined with tourism – the former, in fact, often drives the latter. The destination uppermost in the minds of most tourists we know is  – Culture. This means that both share friends and – enemies. Of the principal enemies, seeing that we find ourselves within the precincts of governance, I intend to […]