Opinion

If you have your own resources like gold, diamond or oil that brings steady income, why gamble for leverage? Businesses have a good reason for using Other People’s Money OPM to establish and split the profit with risk takers...

The recent weeks have been tough for Nigeria and Nigerians. With the strangest of shameful news making the headlines and drawing negative attention to a nation already haemorrhaging uncontrollably from economic collapse, social decadence, brutishness of state agents and...

Three different incidents in the last week cast, poignantly, in bold relief the plight of the girl-child in Nigeria. Thanks to The Punch newspaper which launched the #FreeEse, #JusticeforEse campaign and the civil society groups that took up the...

In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A year earlier, then incumbent President George H. Bush—who was seeking reelection on the platform of the Republican Party—had...

Was Ese Rita Oruru now 14 abducted or did she elope with Yunusa to have their Islamic marriage consummated in Kano?  Whichever way the pendulum of varying degrees of public opinion swing, the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the entire saga...

It's not often that an African head of government is received across the developed world with pomp and popular acclaim. Of course, Africa and many of its governments are yet to cast off that seeming perennial characterisation of a...

At the invitation of the King, Salman Bin-Abdul-Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia and that of the Ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, President Muhammadu Buhari undertook state visits to the two Middle-Eastern states between February 22nd and...

1. Nigeria’s economy is in serious dire strait, no doubt. a. By the end of this month, ten manufacturing businesses will close shop according to Manufactturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), while over 50,000 jobs have already being lost in Abuja,...

When relics of uncivilized, primitive and medieval men who are not fit for the consumption of the modern man are elevated to positions of authority, the people bear the brunt. Today, relics of barbarism have found their way into...

Idowu Akinlotan of The Nation newspaper certainly is an above average writer. On a very good day he delivers delightful commentary on the Nigerian situation, warts and all, though _Palladium,_his column on the back page of the Nation on...