Opinion

“So, the fight is on two levels: one, directly against corruption and the second is that you are going to prepare for a counter attack. That is where we are at the moment and there is no retreat.” -...

“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”  ― John Green The Federal Government promised to generate, transmit and distribute at least 20,000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity within four years and increase it to 50,000 MW...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Madam Christine Lagarde was on a four-day visit to Nigeria from January 4. She claimed it was a friendly visit: “I’m not in Nigeria to negotiate for IMF loans but to promote fiscal...

Nigerians are in the midst of a familiar feeding frenzy. On the menu this time, former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Prosecutors allege that Mr. Dasuki, a retired colonel of the Nigerian Army, took more than $2 billion that...

On December 22, 2015, The Punch published an Editorial Opinion titled ‘Fashola’s False Start on Electricity’. It left me, and I imagine others who have for decades keenly followed developments in the country’s Power Sector, confounded. The OpEd fell...

Like other belligerent groups before it, the end of Boko Haram insurgency is certain. Nigerians look forward with enthusiasm their impending doom’s day. Between technical, marginal or complete defeat of the sect, the promise made by the All Progressive...

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” ― Euripides, Orestes Interestingly, it was Adolf Hitler who said “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.” IBB' coup speech in 1985  " Major-General Muhammadu...

No doubt, the 2015 election in Nigeria will remain one of the most discussed political events in many years to come. This is because a lot of surprises sprang up in its wake and thereafter. Nobody would forget in...

Nigeria is not a jumbled, jangling multi-cultural profusion, unassimilable into anything whole. Nigeria is a shattered country, a wasteland only to a mind too depressed to endow it with any organizing meaning. Our culture has always been our most...

The Holy Book says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. I have heard a lot of outpouring of emotions about the demolition of OSHODI Market by the LAGOS State Government led by His...