Opinion

The current debate over the Buhari government’s request to borrow additional $30bn (a substantial portion of which is likely to come from China), has revived debates not just about debt overhang in the country but also about whether China...

It's been argued for a very long time that some knowledge of history is useful to the scientist, the economist or the student of literature or philosophy on the grounds that no science or art is static. This argument...

I was lucky a few days ago to meet the new minister of power, Eng. Sale Mamman. I said "lucky" because meeting Nigeria's big men is an issue. But this man is different I noticed. And he has been...

There is no other country in the world where current politicians and their alter ego of crony businessmen steal and sell out the whole House, as they do in African countries. Most African Heads of State cannot differentiate personal...

The situation within the Ministry of Power superintended by the duo of Engineer Sale Mamman and Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba in the last few weeks undoubtedly calls for concern. This unpleasant development portends danger for every critical sector of the...

“Every free society has a journalist.”- Agba Jalingo For living up to the responsibility of his vocation and professional calling and for also daring to report the sleaze observed in the five hundred million naira appropriated and approved for Cross River...

It’s a known fact that Nigeria operates a federal system of government with each federal unit enjoying some form of autonomy as provided for by the Constitution. Recently, there were hues and cries by Nigerian Governors Forum and some...

Through the implementation of various public sector financial management reforms, over N700bn had been saved by the Federal Government. In addition to the N700bn savings, about N300bn had been recovered by the anti-graft agencies of government through the collaborative...

To know about the road ahead, ask those coming back - Chinese proverb. Each time I read African historians' account on how civilization and development got to Africa, and compare same with that of many Europeans scholars, I often marvel...

The Buhari administration has given Nigerians a most unusual and disturbing New Year Gift, in the form of a proposed increase in electricity tariffs, enforceable from April by the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) and to be completed by the...