Opinion

I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and...

Dear President Abbas, Last week I sent an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, criticizing him in the strongest terms for pursuing policies that prolong the occupation of the West Bank rather than searching for ways to end it by...

By Monday, June12, 2017, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki would have marked seven months or approximately 213 days in office as Governor of Edo State. Still too little a time for proper evaluation of a four-year term, the moment presents an...

In real life, people are told that quitters never win and winners never quit. That aphorism has proven true at the level of individual entrepreneurship and endeavour. Most people have often found out to their chagrin that just after...

I  was a  Second Year student of the University of Ife (Now OAU) when I met Funminiyi Olaitunnu Adewumi in 1979. We were both nineteen, but he was already in the Third Year studying History Education. At that age,...

The business dictionary defined budget as "an estimate of costs, revenues, and resources over a specified period, reflecting a reading of future financial conditions and goals" The online business dictionary also affirmed that budget is one of the most important...

When I wrote on the high expectations over 2017 Hajj, I was just trying to prophesy from experience the nitty-gritty that has over the years controlled the fares paid by Nigerian pilgrims for their holy journeys to Makkah. May...

We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan Numerous of successful secessions...

Survey shows regional institutional investor base expanding due to favourable demographics Capital markets, where money from savers is put into long-term investments, can contribute significantly to socio-economic development if they invest in productive projects and enterprises. But small size and...

"Seinde Arigbede did not die, but unlike others, he did not have broomstick twitches driven up his penis..." Those were my first storybook's opening lines. Until I had a sibling in 1997, I'd spent the previous years in solitary confinement....