Opinion

Since its establishment in June 2003, Nigeria's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has made considerable progress in addressing key governance issues in the extractive sector. The EITI Standard – outlining key requirements for the good governance of oil, gas...

Part of the reason the apparent state-sponsored attacks on the diaspora Nigerians domiciled or in transit in the Republic of South Africa is unabating and is daily increasing in temper and tempo is not far-fetched. It is as lucid as...

Towards the dawn of the millennium while the component units of the universe were taking quantum leaps into space and investing massively in research for the development of Artificial Intelligence, AI, Nigeria was in the throes of regular and...

"If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall" - Han Feiizu (280-233 BCE). Precisely a week ago, the Emmanuel Ogbeche-led Abuja chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists held a town hall parley on the...

The black South Africans restarted their deadly xenophobic violence few days back against other black Africans living in their country and thereby completely distracted Nigerians from the all-important story of the height of professional misconduct involving a serving Army...

Reports say a Nigerian, who had gone to lodge a protest against the dispatch of his fellow countrymen by a ravening, xenophobic bloodhound in South Africa at Shoprite, Lekki, Lagos, ended up becoming a victim of the untamed violence...

The single-mindedness of Captain Hosa Okunbo, a business mogul of international repute and a proud son of Benin Kingdom, is not an issue for speculation.  He has consistently walked his talk and this is writ-large in the way he continues...

My favorite passage from the many essays by the 20th Century management theorist, prophet of customer-centricism, and dialectician, Peter F. Drucker, on the subject of change and innovation has to be his argument that we now live in a...

The report that Nigeria earned $54.5bn from crude oil and spent $54.6bn to import petroleum products in 2018 should be a saddening narrative to anyone who still has an iota of patriotic attachment to this country. When you hear things...

At the recent presidential retreat for his cabinet members, President Muhammadu Buhari defined the ethos that would undergird the workings of the team, stressing complementarity and synergy among his ministers to realise the core goal of national development. The President’s...