Opinion

Yoruba proverb says “Oruko nroni,” which literally means your life is shaped by your name. As President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan name suggests, he has a habit of being in the right place at the right time. Apart from his...

Do you love Nigeria as your Country without oil resources or just want your opportunity to loot? As Ebele term ends, no amount of Party and family business distractions will control the oil sector.  Nigeria/Biafra War boiled down to...

I deliberately delayed my epitaph to Dr Festus Iyayi until funeral rites in his honour are completed. I also want to feel the impulse of the people of his nativity, who, having lost an illustrious son to a struggle...

Leadership and leaders in a society (in this context, a country) are produced by and from its people. The people in turn are what they are through the influence of their social or value system – the culture that...

The most important asset a bank has is its credibility. The bank’s credibility is carried by the governor and is embodied in the person of the governor. It is this credibility that makes national and international commerce go on....

‘The longest road you’re going to have to walk is from here to here.' Let me first issue a caveat, I am not a finance expert, an economist, or auditor, I am not a banker, I have not held the...

DISCLAIMER: For the internet warriors, before they ask for my head; ‘kill’ does not mean murder and murder does not mean death. Just like ‘drunken’ does not mean pertaining to alcohol and could refer to lackadaisical, inebriated or insatiable. To...

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has once again dragged the reputation of the apex bank to the mud. His recent gaffe, contained in a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, which insinuated theft of...

As time goes on, it is becoming clearer that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has lost direction and focus, thereby making it difficult for it to investigate cases dispassionately without witch-hunting and grandstanding. Ethics and professionalism in the handling...

Permit me to go straight to the point by calling on Nigerians, in the light of the recent defection of 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives to the All Progressive Congress (APC), to draw attention...