Opinion

Elder Statesman, Chief Bisi Akande was Executive Governor of Osun State for four years from 1999 during which he led his colleagues who were unwilling to pay workers the National Minimum Wage. I was then in the Nigeria Labour...

After PDP's fall from glory as Nigeria's ruling party on March 28th 2015, following an embarrassing defeat at the presidential election, Olisa Metuh, the party's spokesperson became not only the mouthpiece but also the symbol of the party. Metuh, pugnacious...

Your Excellency Sir, best wishes to you and the good people of Edo State. “Let the people lead”, one of your many slogans in a bid to promote fairness and transparency in governance supports the train of thought that incites...

The quote, "I have proven to Nigerians that my political ambition is not worth anyone's blood" by Good luck Jonathan on every appearance and even on the lips of his crass supporters has lost touch with the present realities. The...

By now Nigerians, those eager for change among us, should have realised that they made one mistake about their assumption about how the anti-corruption fight would go under President Muhammadu Buhari. The assumption had been that corruption would be...

Richard V. Reeves writing for 'The Brookings Essay' talks about saving Horatio Alger, Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream. The first few paragraphs got me thinking... On a warm spring evening in Washington, D.C., a fleet of limousines and town...

A former parliamentary secretary of state in the German ministry of foreign Affairs and an erstwhile Commissioner of the European Commission RALF DAHRENDORF wrote that _“the life and death of democracy is an unusual and extraordinary magnum opus by...

I am writing this piece as Joe Igbokwe not as APC Publicity Secretary Lagos State. I am writing as an independent writer and a public commentator on national affairs. Please permit me to air my views before we swear...

It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was...

Taxes are hardly welcome with a smile. Even in jurisdictions where public funds are judiciously husbanded, taxes are often treated with as much dislike as for leprosy! As such, I was not surprised that my call for creative taxation...