Opinion

OPINION: CONFRONTING THE CURSE OF OIL

The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking for their share of federal revenue - read: oil revenue, or better still,...

OPINION: BUKOLA SARAKI AND THE CODE OF MISCONDUCT TRIBUNAL

It is no longer news that Senator Olubukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over allegations bordering on assets declaration while in office. One must commend the vision of those who birthed...

OPINION: BUKOLA SARAKI, DAVID MARK, SAMBO DASUKI, ETC VS. 180 MILLION NIGERIANS

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Most Nigerians were born in the night but not last night. The recent revelations from the files of Panamanian Firm, MOSSECK FONSECA, as further revealed by various media worldwide, concerning these men of questionable character, further reinforces our understanding...

OPINION: WORLD DAY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

With an average production of 50 movies per week and about $590 million revenue annually, Nigeria’s film market is booming. Dubbed Nollywood, it has overcome the teething problems of the late 1980s and 1990s to become a leading film...

A CANDID RESPONSE FROM SENATE PRESIDENT SARAKI TO PENDULUM 

My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, "My Candid Letter to Saraki." I take everything you said in that article to heart and I must commend you for your candidness indeed...

OPINION: WE NEED OKONJO IWEALA BACK AS FINANCE MINISTER

The nation is currently facing an economic crisis due to a plethora of issues. From the fall in oil prices, to the decline in the value of the country’s currency; the Naira, to the shame of the ‘padded’ budget...

OPINION:  ABA POWER PROJECT: A NEW STAGE IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, displayed uncanny leadership when on Thursday, March 31, 2016, he took the nation by surprise by getting top representatives of the two feuding parties in the provision of electric supply...

OPINION: BUHARI: CLEANING THE AUGEAN STABLES

Augeas, the mythical king of Elis, kept great stables that held 3,000 oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years – until Hercules was assigned the job. Hercules accomplished this task by causing two rivers to run through...

OPINION: THE GOLAN HEIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE

The Holy Bible commands humanity “Thou shall not covet  thy neigbour’s house, thou shall not covet thy neigbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neigbour’s” (Exodus 20:17)  That precisely was...

OPINION: FAYOSE:  COMBINING OPPOSITION POLITICS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL STRIDES

Even though I have never been his fan and I am still sceptical of becoming one, one thing no political analyst in Nigeria can dispute today is that Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has become the loudest voice...