Opinion

Before the drafting, passage and the signing of the Nigerian Local Content Act in to law by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010, most of the local jobs were done by expatriates in Nigeria. From oil and gas sector to...

1. Nigeria, with a 2013 estimated population of 174,507,539 is the most populous Black nation and the 7th most populated nation in the entire world, trailing after—from least to most—Pakistan, Brazil, Indonesia, USA, India and China (1.3bn). 2. Nigerians are...

On December 9 and 10, several websites and newspapers published a startling letter that Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had written to President Goodluck Jonathan. In the letter, Mr. Sanusi alerted the president...

KNOWN DIFFERENCES Time was when the British colonialists were accused of creating one-Nigeria in total ignorance of the stark differences existing between the different peoples that erstwhile lived independently and as neighbors in the geospace currently occupied by “Nigeria” prior...

There is no doubt, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is among the controversial figures in Nigeria of today. At times, one will be wondering if the man is actually the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria or a public...

Few days before last year's yuletide, a major political statement with far-reaching constitutional import was made by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Professor Attahiru Jega to the effect that if the violent and bloody insurgency in...

Each time I talk about Nigeria celebrating 100 years of nationhood in most youth organizations, the response I usually get from my fellow youths is “how come we are celebrating Nigeria at 100 when we just finished celebrating Nigeria...

Isoko Development Union (IDU) remains one of the oldest Socio- cultural organizations in Nigeria which operations started in the early 40s and not politically and economically viable for national leadership. Isoko Development union comprises men and women wings yet...

Biafran - Nigeria war ended forty three years ago. The war was fought between 1967 and 1970. The ethnic/religious cleansing or genocide against the Igbo that necessitated the war took place from 1966 to July 1967 when the actual...

It was late Chief Akinloye the Chairman of NPN that let Nigerians know that there were always two parties in Nigeria: NPN and the Military. Mind you, we’ve always had political thugs. They eventually graduated to godfathers like Adedibu...