Opinions

The Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja on Thursday dismissed an application asking its chairman, Danladi Umar, to disqualify himself and withdraw from the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. The Federal Government is prosecuting Saraki before the Umar-led CCT on 13 counts of false asset declaration which he allegedly made between 2003 […]

Nigerians are quick to pass judgment of guilt on any person suspected or alleged to have committed an offence even before a court of competent jurisdiction is yet to convict such person. This attitude has made nonsense the popular saying that a man is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. The recent trial of high profile […]

Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week, One Trouble (African University Press, 1972). In that novella, the lead character Wilson Tagbo, a brilliant and determined chap, had gained admission into a secondary school during the colonial days. In […]

As a boy, I was a fan of the western, or what we know here as the cowboy drama or movie. I did not only watch their heroics, I played them. I was Michael Landon who played Little Joe in the Family Cartwright show called Bonanza. Dan Blocker was too fat and impetuous for me. […]

Even as the blame game continues and Nigerians await resolution of the face-off between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the 2016 budget, reports that the presidency has begun extensive work on the 2017 appropriation bill; so as to prevent a repeat of budget delay next year, is a sad statement on the credibility […]

President of the most populous African nation, Muhammadu Buhari may be facing the manifestation of the old dictum ‘’uneasy  lies the head that wears the crown’’ owing to the current challenges confronting the nation , the bucks of which mostly stops at his table . There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigeria, is facing […]

The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking for their share of federal revenue – read: oil revenue, or better still, national cake, or our money.  A paragraph in the report by the online newspaper, Premium Times, caught my […]Read More

My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My Candid Letter to Saraki.” I take everything you said in that article to heart and I must commend you for your candidness indeed and the sincerity of your intentions. As you said in your article, you are someone I […]

The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999.  Public Relations Consultants and media officials of this particular Senate have done their part flooding both the print and the online media with details of how productive the Bukola Saraki-led Senate has been, and they have been […]

In a classic case of two single parents getting married, Nigeria signed a currency swap deal with China, making it easier to transact trade deals in the Chinese currency, the yuan. The deal between the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC), the world’s biggest lender, and Nigeria’s central bank (CBN) means the yuan […]

For Bukola Saraki, the embattled Senate President, it never rains but pours. He has enjoyed a permanently stormy tenure since he went at his party’s back and conspired and traded with the opposition PDP to steal and share the Senate leadership. He must be terribly disappointed that what he hoped for was not what he […]

There is an open sore on the minds and dignity of many Nigerians that probably only President Buhari can quickly heal by saying something clear and loud about the sore and those that caused it. The sore in question is the recent murky recruitment exercise carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria in which […]