Opinion

OPINION: WHO IS AFRAID OF BURATAI?

Nigerians can confidently attest to the annihilation of the Boko Haram insurgents and near complete triumph of federal troops in the war against terrorism...

OPINION: ABC OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL SERVANT

The blind person who shuts his eyes and says he is asleep; when he was not asleep whom did he see? As a people, we...

OPINION: OKONJO IWEALA: WE ARE NO BABIES HERE

The former Minister of Finance under President Jonathan has been in the news for sometimes now, making interventions in the body polity with respect...

OPINION: THE STRUGGLE FOR BRAZIL

There is an on-going struggle for the soul of Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country which has become a model of how to rescue...

OPINION: PROCUREMENT ACT AMENDMENT: A BEACON OF HOPE FOR NIGERIAN LOCAL BUSINESSES

As the Nigerian economy continues to groan, begging for rescue from all and sundry, the 8th National Assembly cannot be said irresponsive in view...

OPINION: CRISIS IN NIGERIA’S OIL AND GAS SECTOR: A NATION IN SEARCH OF MAGICIANS

To state that the oil and gas sector in Nigeria has been in a crisis state for a very long time would be a...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI AND THE HOPE OF OGONI RESTORATION

Three squalid and undesirable experiences of the Ogoni have forced down the sunset. The first is the entry of Shell into Ogoni in 1958....

OPINION: OKONJO AND THE POLITICS OF POLITICAL WILL

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has had a distinguished public career. Twice finance minister and economic tsar, as the coordinating minister of the economy in her last...

OPINION: WHO GOVERNS NIGERIA?

During the Jonathan administration, an outspoken opposition spokesperson had argued that Nigeria was on auto-pilot, a phrase that was gleefully even if ignorantly echoed...

OPINION: IS THE NASS READY FOR CHANGE?

"Without controversy, there is no change, and without change there is no progress" - Anonymous Throughout history, change has remained a permanent feature in the...