Opinion

Ethiopia’s ambitious plan to build a $4.2 billion dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, 40 kms from its border with Sudan, is expected to provide 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough for its population plus some excess it can sell to...

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar was not wrong when he described  Nigerian politicians as sycophants and survivalists, who say things based on convenience. Alhaji Atiku made this  touchy statement during the heat of his political discord   with his estranged boss,...

As Nigeria starts screening for a new CBN governor to replace Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) at the expiration of his tenure come June 2014, the names of people in consideration for his post, which includes coterie-elite bank managers like...

The recent scandal involving the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a private entity named NYSC Foundation has effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s biggest challenge is, perhaps, not corruption but barefaced impunity. According to a report in...

Religious leaders all over the world do not come more charismatic than our very own Francis Cardinal Arinze. In virtually all continents of the world, Cardinal Arinze’s name is a household noun based on his groundbreaking work as President...

Does being a graduate of a Nigerian university guarantee you a good job these days? The answer is no! In a country like ours where our youths are daily faced with the herculean task of successfully completing a bachelors’...

This is a strong call for all faithfuls, Muslims, Christians or others in Nigeria, abroad and friends of Nigeria, to come together Fridays, Sundays or other days and vigil, fast and pray for the destruction of the wicked cabal...

Obama is not an orphan. He comes from American rainbows that elected him once and reelected twice, from a progressive Party, from a long line of Irish American mother and African father. Republican swore their goal was to make...

For the average Nigerian, the ear-splitting noise in the political landscape could be quite confusing. The reason for the noise is quite obvious. To deviate attention from the quiet revolution taking place in several sectors of our national life. After...

Nigerian students have always been the victims of the regular scuffles between the government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); they are indeed the proverbial grass that suffers when two elephants are engaged in a dogfight. ASUU has...