Opinion

When he was barely a few weeks in office, the world renowned Economist wrote a scathing criticism against his competence to run the demanding task of governing Lagos. The magazine concoluded that Governor Akinwumi Ambode cannot fit into the...

The Mavrodi, Melnikova , Mavrodi  (MMM)  international scam known in Nigeria as the  Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox,  has from all intents and purposes, collapsed in Nigeria. It took along, the savings and hopes of about three million Nigerians. Some of...

It’s a little over eighteen months and some Nigerians are beginning to suggest that the Buhari/Osinbajo administration quit the ‘blame game’ of linking the country’s socio-economic woes to the Goodluck Jonathan misadventure! This is a hard take even though...

The relations between unpredictable allies, Russia and Turkey, appear to have deteriorated in the past few years. The relationship between Moscow and Ankara have deteriorated since the Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot a Russian Su-24 bomber out...

It is difficult to match the state of being dead with a towering personality like, Wole Sodipe, one of the founding vice presidents of Platinum Bank, the man we affectionately call The Oracle. At about 3.05am on November 25, I...

If one is to rank the claimed achievements of the Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the removal of 23,000 ghost workers from the federal payroll will easily top the list. But why would any serious Finance Minister gloat about...

As the world waits in anticipation for the beginning of a new era in global diplomacy, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres commences his term as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations. Diplomats at UN headquarters rushed to congratulate Mr....

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, recently wrote a letter to Mr Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on situation of human rights defenders on Senate’s refusal to confirm Mr Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial...

If you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. We have a way of rubbishing our heroes in Africa. Some of you may be too young to remember why Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown or why...

Stakeholders in the just concluded Rivers National and State Assembly re-run elections are failed students of history. We all have learnt nothing and are not willing to develop and improve on our democratic space. Expectedly, the re-run election was...