Opinion

The piece by Louis Odion is emblematic of the new low to which journalism has fallen in Nigeria. This is a piece penned by a senior journalist who, evidently bereft of facts, decided to regale himself with fiction. He...

On my way to work this morning, one man asked: “What does this Soyinka want?” Sitting beside him in the same bus, I couldn’t immediately provide a reply. One thing I was sure of was that this man was...

The news that the Nigerian customs intercepted a container of “READY TO EAT FOODS’’ like Egusi Soup, Jollof Rice, Ogbono, Yam Porridge imported from India,  should actually worry every African. What this simply means is that it was cheaper...

The crisis which rocked the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state would have torpedoed the rhythm of the just concluded governorship election. In spite of the fact that the PDP has rejected the outcome of the election and...

Recently, the Nigerian Army announced the commencement of what it deviously termed Exercise Python Dance in the southeastern part of the country commencing from November 27, 2016 to end on December 27, 2016. Since then, many groups and stakeholders,...

I have been reading former Secretary General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand. That piece, published in the ‘G-7Germany: The Schloss-Emma Summit’ of June 2015, has said that questions...

Just like with most things in Nigeria, today, energy requirements far exceeds the current production levels – and will do so for many years to come. Existing power generating plants are old, underutilized, with most falling into disrepair and...

Akunyili and Magu as examples When former President, Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Dora Akunyili as DG of NAFDAC in April 2001, Akunyili started to reform NAFDAC from a docile Agency to a very active one. It is instructive to note that...

Nigeria in 1988, had just a handful of   human or civil right   organisations. They were in their infancy in a country with very high   mortality rate. To some of us, it was worrying that while large parts of   the...

The forth-coming elections will produce some of the most expensive   legislators in Ogoni history. Over 35 lives had been lost in Ogoni  just   to produce legislators for the state and national assemblies. Just after the annulment of the parliamentary elections...