Opinion

Boutros Boutros- Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (January 1992 to December 1996) has died aged 93. As an Egyptian, many Africans were elated when he became the first ‘African’ to head the United Nations.  When he also...

President Muhammadu Buhari is the custodian of Nigeria’s democracy. He may also be the greatest threat facing that nascent democracy. The pillars of democracy are individual freedoms, rule of law, people’s involvement in the decision making process either directly...

The hypocrisy of man stinks to high heavens! How best can one describe the deafening silence in many quarters that have accompanied the revelations of the several ludicrous allocations in the 2016 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari? Many...

There has been renewed talk lately about the need for Nigerians to patronize locally made goods, (someone should have added… and services!). Championed by Senator Ben Murray Bruce, and supported by the Senate President Bukola Saraki, the Minister of...

“If you steal, do not steal too much at a time: you may be arrested. Steal little by little.” – Mobutu Sese Seko to Ministers/Party Delegates, 1971. I must apologize for taking so long to write this second part. I took...

To save face, it is the case that something or somebody must be blamed whenever something goes awry with a project or policy in a public or corporate sector organization. That explains why, Zero Based Budgeting, ZBB, which is the...

I was at the burial of an auntie in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Tuesday, February 2, 2016, when Joseph Asike, on a leave of absence at Government House in Awka from Howard University in...

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. SOCRATES Propaganda, which is nothing more than just a slogan directed at the adversary, missed up as fact when in reality it is purely and simply an unproven opinion...

At the end of the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins and struggling to cope with the aftermath of six years of conflict, under the Marshall Plan of 1948 America gave $13 billion dollars to Western...

I read last night the proposal of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing to take advantage of the N5trillion Pension fund for the purpose of investing in the power sector and this informed my decision to share my...