Opinion

Wole Olanipekun! Remember him? Yes! Everybody talks about him in glowing terms: he is gifted and God-fearing. As a matter of fact, everybody marvels at how the accomplished technocrat, who rose to the pinnacle of his career as Senior...

The news that a couple tortured their granddaughter for witchcraft circulated widely on social media. Someone drew my attention to the report in The Nation newspaper. That was late on July 9, 2020. I tried reaching the correspondent who...

President Muhammadu Buhari, recently appointed an Economist, Dr. Lamido Yuguda, as the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This brings to an end, the 2-year long controversy surrounding the office of the DG, SEC. He is a Fellow...

These days if you watch the global news as channels, the likelihood is very high that you would hear and see profits that the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil is depleting at an alarming rate no doubt. However, much of the...

A few months after the presidential inauguration in 2015, the Buhari administration launched a Jihad against corruption and applied itself to pseudo-reformist proselytising. The government caterwauled over how the Jonathan administration magicked the public treasury into exclusive pockets. The...

Once upon a time, the choice of Vice-Chancellor for any University in Nigeria was based on merit and the choice was made by members of the Council, elected members from the Senate and Congregation of the University. Once upon a...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 10, (THEWILL) - On Tuesday July 7th, 2020, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila-led House of Representatives, going by reports, introduced two consolidated bills that among other provisions, seeks to penalize law enforcement bodies that fails to arrest and...

How many wealthy Africans do you know that have not spent his first thousands or million abroad? If he hasn't, he is wise or has not made it big to impress. If he has a land or a house,...

It can't be said enough that the spate of violent criminal attacks being perpetrated with impunity across the country, do not show a government that is in charge, nor a country that is at peace with itself. What are they...

There are literally billions of unclaimed assets in Nigeria. Most unclaimed assets are intangible assets like money in banks, brokerage accounts and dividends accruing from shares. Bank accounts or assets can be considered “unclaimed “once there has been no...