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OPINION: REMOVE THE SUBSIDY: CREATE A MILLION JOBS

Price controls are regarded by economists as one of the worst forms of intervention in markets. Over the years, the history of governments implementing price controls has shown that it is a failed venture. If truth be told, no...

OPINION: LOSS OF $21BN OIL REVENUE: IOCS AND NIGERIA’S DEEP OFFSHORE OF FRAUD

Provoked by statements credited to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on December 17, 2017, while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had lost about $21...

OPINION: RE: KANO VISIT: GEN DAMBAZAU HEADS KWANKWASO’S SECURITY COMMITTEE

The news report emanating from a national daily and published by some social media outfits insinuating that the Honourable Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau has been appointed as the head of Security Committee in the planned...

OPINION: OPED: LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT, POWER MINISTRY AND FASHOLA-PHOBIA

Things seem to be looking up and brighter this year in the often stormy relationship between the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing -the "Infrastructure Ministry" , as some will...

OPINION: APC FAILED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: A FORETOLD TRAGEDY

There is no gainsaying the fact that the APC Federal Government has failed. There is no sector of national life that is thriving. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) are so disheartening that even top government officials are...

OPINION: THE GROUSE AGAINST GRAZING RESERVES AND CATTLE COLONIES

The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe has found a new “answer” to the lingering problem of farmers/herders clashes. At a retreat organised recently by the ministry, Ogbe announced the introduction of cattle colonies throughout the country...

OPINION: CAN OBASANJO’S ‘LETTER BOMB’ CAUSE BUHARI ELECTORAL FATALITY?

I was in a meeting when former President Olusegun Obasanjo's "letter bomb" rent the "news-sphere". When I received the news alert, I hastened my business because I was seized by capricious anxiety to read the former president's missive. I must...

OPINION: 2019: RUN AND RUN, PRESIDENT BUHARI, RUN

Until I am convinced that Nigeria is not being transformed by President Muhammadu Buhari, there is no ground for me to dissociate myself from the millions of voices of Nigerians calling for the continuity of this government. Simply, the...

OPINION: OF NEPOTISM, IMPUNITY, MEDIOCRITY AND 2019

After so much ballyhoo about President Muhammadu Buhari’s proclivity at pampering his ethnic stock over and above the other ethnic nationalities, he finally attempted to defend himself against the charge of ethnic bias. His defence was contained in a...

OPINION: KOGI PILOT CATTLE COLONIES: SAFETY NET IMPARATIVE

The resolve by stakeholders to resolve the Fulani Herders imbroglio is a panacea to end the increasing deaths experienced in parts of the country. Applying the best strategy under the present circumstance where all the sides of the feuding...

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