In September 2015, Chief Olu Falae, former Secretary to the Federal Military Government and a presidential candidate in 1999, was...
Traditionally the Igalas, the ninth largest ethnic group in Nigeria are their brother’s keepers. They are hospitable, old fashioned and...
Buhari’s election and subsequent assumption of office were epochal events in Nigeria. His election gave Nigerians, especially the poor masses,...
While the nation is pre-occupied with Senate President Bukola Saraki’s matter before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCB), something important...
Last week, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released an abysmal 2.11 percent growth for the fourth quarter of 2015....
Recent events in the international economic environment and, indeed, the Nigerian economic condition, have raised new concerns for the informal...
In matters concerning the state, I have often addressed myself to the question of what makes a good political leader....
Since this year, we have been facing worsening energy crisis. But in the last two weeks or so, the problem...
The monetary policy committee of the South African Reserve Bank meets this week, 15-17 March. The consensus view is that...
Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Literature Laureate, recently urged President Muhammadu Buhari to convene an emergency conference on the state of...
Without vision the people perish. So said the ancient Hebraic sages. Nations, like individuals, must have a vocation or they...
The Port Harcourt Volunteer is the harrowing story of the Nigerian Civil War, July1967- January 1970, two and half years...
It was veteran journalist, Muyiwa Adetiba who said to me many years ago, that “once you have an idea, a...
It was George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher, essayist and poet, who said that those who disregard history are doomed to...
The economy of Venezuela has shrunk by a cumulative 16 percent in the last two years, and inflation estimated at...