Opinion

OPINION: NEM INSURANCE PLC 48TH AGM AND ASSOCIATED GOVERNANCE ISSUES

An integral component of the long-term strategy of any company is corporate governance, epitomised by transparency and accountability. By extension, it is also the single most important means of sustaining the vibrancy and relevance of any capital market in...

OPINION: CARNAGE AND POVERTY AS NATIONAL TRAGEDIES

Two existential issues -security and poverty-that bear great relevance to the assessment of performance of governments globally reared their heads back-to-back, in the last one week, in Nigeria. Both issues were so tangible that they could not escape essential...

OPINION: PLATEAU KILLINGS: FEMI ADESINA AND OTHER PRESIDENTIAL MORTICIANS

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Since the unfortunate continued killings of fellow citizens by suspected Fulani herdsmen terrorists over the weekend in Plateau State, there has been outrage by men and women of goodwill from all walks of life especially as it concerns the...

OPINION: RAPHAEL OBONYO, FROM POVERTY TO PINNACLE OF POWER

A Kenyan boy’s odyssey My name is Raphael Obonyo from Kenya. I grew up in Korogocho, the third-largest slum in the capital, Nairobi, where people live in grinding poverty. I was the fourth child in a family of nine, and we...

OPINION: GOVERNOR OKOROCHA, UCHE NWOSU AND THE THIRD TERM AGENDA (PART 1)

The street with the police station on it has one street light burning. The police station itself was dark and still. The City's cheap road crunched loudly under my feet, as I hurried to catch up with Mr ...

OPINION: APC, nPDP AND THE DOCTRINE OF GOOD FAITH

The question of whether Karl Marx was right or not in his contemplation that capitalism contains the seed of its own destruction is subject either way to the dialectics of conversation, logic and ramification, especially against the backdrop of...

OPINION: MEMORANDA FOR OSHIOMOLE, OTHER APC NEW EXECUTIVES

"May this mighty broom that we have become sweep aside that which needs to be swept aside so that all Nigerians may enter into their finest destiny with national pride and utmost dignity. We are ready. We are the...

OPINION: FEEDING OUR CHILDREN’s FLESH & BLOOD TO THE LOWEST BIDDERS

It is true that we are only following the examples of our leaders by selling our children’s blood and flesh to the point of no return. Monkey see monkey do. We have lost our moral compass. Sanctity of life...

OPINION: ENDING BLOODBATH IN PLATEAU STATE, MIDDLE BELT

It is sad to receive another news of massive killings and destructions of over 200 lives and millions worth of properties of Plateau state citizens. I understand similar attacks are ongoing in parts of Taraba, Adamawa, Zamfara,Kaduna and Benue...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S INTEGRITY CHALLENGED LEADERSHIP

For about three weeks this month, I spent a short vacation in some parts of Central London in the United Kingdom. During this brief period, I took time to read through the metrol newspapers and evening standards which are distributed...