Opinion

How can small businesses make profit or create jobs in countries with loan interest rate around twenty percent? When it is about high-risk business and individuals, bank may justify such outrageous lending rate to cover their high probability loss....

I don’t know who authored the latest round of Nigeria’s leaders and their relationship with the pump prices of petrol. Most of our leaders hiked fuel price. President Muhammadu Buhari left it constant at 20 kobo to the litre...

MARTINS SCHULTZ, the President of the European Parliament minced no words in describing why Europe is enamored of our President, Muahmmadu Buhari, so much as to give him the honor of addressing the continent's  legislative arm. The big endorsement President Buhari...

Southwest is gradually caving in to political conquistadors. Many of our politicians are now acting like vassals to a resurgent powerful political Mafia. This group had once faded into oblivion; but it is now back, controlling the agenda of...

The basic needs of one citizen are the basic needs of every citizen (no matter their status in society). The most important word is: Basic! And added to it is: Needs!! Heretofore, the basic needs of Man (every person) are:...

In my previous opinion on this topic published in the SUN of 2nd February, 2016 and elsewhere, I hinged my guarded analysis on the limited information available when this judgment broke on January 29, 2016. After publication of my...

The December 2015 killing of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMV) better known as Shi’ite in Zaria, Kaduna State drew international condemnation and rightly so. Human life is sacred so the condemnation that trailed the killings during...

Two issues that have put our judiciary in the eye of the storm in recent times are the anti-corruption war and the election matters. These two issues are very dear to the heart of President Muhammadu Buhari for different...

The proposed 2016 budget currently being subjected to legislative scrutiny by both chambers of the National Assembly is the first budget to be so put together by the APC led administration. The appropriation bill is coming on the heels...

I am not a fan of Kaduna State Executive Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. I find him rather brash. Even with some of my friends serving in his government, I did not think highly of his administration. Then last week, I...