Opinion

I recall that he belonged to the twelve original senators who were the pro-All Progressives Congress arrowheads that started the APC movement in the 7th Senate, clearly a tricky project at the period. Some of the Senators in that...

One inherent challenge associated with opinion writing in Nigeria is that intellectually, opinions are more often accepted but politically rejected without justification; a development that presents the writer’s effort as a baggage of goodness without good luck. However, despite...

Most times, public resistance to policies and programmes of government streams from poorly conceived and implemented ideas or schemes. Today, some parts of Nigeria are embroiled in crisis over the implementation and enforcement of the anti-open grazing law by...

BACKGROUND It has been recognised that the budget is perhaps the most important instrument for the development of any modern state apart from the constitution. It can be argued that it is only through the instrumentality of the budget that...

Of what value is democracy to the Nigerian State when elements in the executive arm of government are acting above the law, treating the courts with condescension?  Yet, we delude ourselves that our nation is running a presidential system of...

Mrs Aisha M. Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari is probably the most loved person in Nigeria today, especially by critics of her husband's administration. She first came to our notice in this regard when in the course...

Nigeria was ranked very high by the Saudi government for 2017 Hajj. And it is the truth that Hajj operations in Nigeria have definitely stabilized. Since the birth of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) 11 years ago,...

The aim and end of education is to instil in the individual those states of collective thinking and canons of morals...these are religious beliefs, moral beliefs and practices, national and occupational traditions and collective opinions of every kind. Their...

The term “Nation-Building” is both old and new. It has been fashionable in the 1960s, and it is taking a back seat right now. “Nation-Building” always has been a highly complex term, encompassing the description of historical experiences, a...

A lack of diversity afflicts most companies’ boards When a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it’s front-page news because women’s progress in business leadership on the continent continues to be achingly...