Opinion

Everywhere in the world, there are people who go into politics because they feel a genuine call to service. Others do so, either for self aggrandisement or in furtherance of some ignoble objectives or simply to protect their crooked...

No public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: ‘The 2015 presidential election will not...

Air transport reforms needed to unlock full potential Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Cote d’Ivoire...

Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transportation are hardly enough The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the second largest country in Africa. Fifty four years after independence, the DRC has no roads connecting...

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You build one by doing what is right at the right time.” Senator Bala Mohammed (KauranBauchi) wrote on his Facebook wall as far back as September 22,...

It is quite unsettling that the leaders of the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have decided to self-destruct. They are doing their best in putting the wrong foot forward in almost all their recent public outings. After...

Looking back into our national history, the last time a top government official engaged in an act of sedition and rebellion against the Nigerian State was in 1967. That was when Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Military Governor of...

I have often wondered whether the problem with Nigeria has always been the lack of an effective leadership or more like that of followership. Recently, the matter was once again brought to the fore by Prof. Chinua Achebe’s seminal...

Beyond the issue of direct resource control and Determination is the perspective of Stakeholdership. This view does not toe the line of merely agitating for economic freedom to explore and exploit natural resources especially oil by host communities/states in...

In Nigeria, as in virtually all parts of Africa, when elders speak, younger people are expected to listen, obey and act accordingly. For this reason, the recent “rig and roast” statement attributed to former Lagos State governor and national...