Opinion

Before the close of last year, I had the singular misfortune of been confronted by a longstanding friend from Gombe state who indeed wanted to validate the impressions he had about the current status of governance in Imo state...

When former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote that there was a political watch-list, many thought the grand old man of Nigerian politics was hallucinating.  But thanks to the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, we now know...

What’s good for Sanusi is good for Jonathan How many of us wish for a revolution in Nigeria? A revolution is a process of people uprising that culminates in a military or civilian coup. So if you want a revolution,...

I am on record for calling on Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign his post as the governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank. I want to be on record as one insisting that the Mr. Jonathan should not fire him....

My little Oxford dictionary defines politician as “person engaged or interested in politics” and politics as “science and art of government; political affairs or life or principles etc.” Politics consists of “social relations involving authority and power”. A politician...

“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy, but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher (1724-1804), in Critique of Practical Reason. This year, 2014, will be among the...

With the successful registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the 31st of July 2013, there was no doubt that a new of vista of political discuss as we   are presently...

With his recent remark – “I Am Not Resigning Until My Tenure Ends” – Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria governor, can be best described as a contentious person. Since his appointment, he never seemed to...

For some time now, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.  If he is not abusing or making jest of the President of the Federal Republic and the...

These are heady days for the imperious traditional ruler of the Nigerian financial system, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who for all intents and purposes can best be described as the Emir, rather than governor, of the Central Bank of Nigeria. ...