Opinion

Glaringly, the arbitrariness and public contempt in the operations of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulation Agency (PPPRA) under this government is fast becoming at best callous and at worst criminal. Severally, it has been said that The PPPRA has...

In the past few days, I have keenly followed the enthusiasm and the seemingly endless endorsements that have greeted the declaration and candidacy of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. From the...

I am not a Muslim by faith. My interventions here are purely based on my human feelings for others because I am involved. I do not understand what the Holy Quran and other Islamic literatures teaches its followers about...

Nigeria's ministry of information used to be the preserve of processed, patriotic and disciplined minds. It used to be a place for rational public servants like Chukwuemeka Chikelu, the late Dora Akunyili and Frank Nweke Jr – and not...

Most high school science students are familiar with the functions of red and white blood cells. The white cells help fight off infections and other foreign invaders of our bodies. But sometimes, white cell cells overdo it, killing its...

Going by recent reports from development practitioners, sustainable development and the related notion of sustainability are becoming increasingly important policy objectives for government at different levels as well as in the private sector. They suggest that there is a...

Supplicating against pandemic is not a new thing nor is pandemic a novelty. Pandemics have been part of human history. One of the earliest approaches to pandemic is to pray against it. That approach is still extant; only that...

Then let them laugh and rejoice in our man's ill-luck. Alive perhaps they felt no need of him, but now that he Is dead, they will grieve their lack in the demands of war. For foolish men do not appreciate the noble...

Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured because you cannot say who was Victor Hugo's favourite grandson. Herr Müller has started to scream because you do not know (exactly) the day that Bismarck died. Your friend Mr. Smith, an Englishman or Yankee,...

Olusegun Obasanjo is a defining personality in Nigeria's politics. For decades he has hovered like a wraith over the political cumulus. He is one of the many Nigerian leaders who have profited prodigiously from the country's undertaking, and he...