Opinion

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...

I believe that Boko Haram (BH) is now actually defeated. I know I made fun of the announcement when it was made around December 31st 2015. It was President Muhammadu Buhari’s (PMB) deadline for defeating BH. But here it...

Nigeria, a country of over 170 million people - a nation who after many decades, oil continue to remain its major source of revenue generation -about 95 per cent. Today the 'once upon a time' glowing commodity is no...

Unarguably, one of the most effective opposition party spokesmen in Nigeria is Lai Mohamed, now our new honorable minister of Information and Culture. While his party, the APC that was formerly in opposition won the presidency on March 28th last year, and...

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” - George Orwell Never has a nation been so ravaged by corruption. Nigerians suffer terrible maul from the deadly claws of the looters. The cruelty of man...

The malicious attempt by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana to mix Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala up in issues that have nothing to do with her in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a desperate joke by an integrity...

I read with absolute interest Simon Kolawole’s article, The Parable of Dollars and Dullards, published on January 17, 2015. I read the article at least five times. If I had any hope that the exchange rate crisis was going...

In the history of Nigeria, a major unlimited crisis or national outbreak that will face us for a very long time is the issue of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) which is due to nature, tribal, religious induced conflicts...

Indigenous textile operators are howling that Chinese operators have taken over the Nigeria’s textile industry. From East to West, North to South there is ranting. The local operators weep stalks to the fact that China, which was formerly an...

Turkish leader, Tayyip Erdogan decided to change his country’s ceremonial Presidency to an executive one. So he told his countrymen  “There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are...