Opinion

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the IMF recently visited Nigeria. The last time the global financial intervention agency, IMF beamed its gaze on Nigeria (1985-6), was to convince government to embark on financial reforms including devaluation of the naira. I...

“What a relief, my friend!” “What are you relieved about?” “It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap opera”. “I tell you. It is a perfect subject for a good home video. But what is your own?” “No. Nothing. I am just...

Gentlemen of the media, we thank you for living up to your constitutional bidding as the national conscience and the voice of the oppressed but politically persecuted citizens but the media must step up her investigative role as envisaged...

In the days of innocence, the preachment was ‘Blessed are the peace makers’ In these days of globalization, rather than make peace, nations tend to stoke the fires of conflict. So is it with the Saudi Arabia-Iran spat which...

Saudi Arabia has described the current prices of oil as "rock bottom". So you can start to imagine the bottom of a gigantic granitic rock in your village if you are from one of the basement complex areas of...

Two weeks ago, I got home from the office one night and feigned extreme happiness. My wife was curious and asked me what the matter was. As we usually joked, she asked if I had been “nominated as the...

After the civil war in Nigeria (from 1967-1970), in order to keep the fragile peace of the nation then, General Yakubu Jack Gowon, the Nigerian Head of State (President), instituted the 3Rs—Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Reintegration; and also pronounced to...

Prof. Wole Soyinka’s reaction to the scandal of the 82 Million Naira dinner held in his honour by the Rotimi Amaechi government in Rivers State is at once disappointing and depressing. Soyinka has said he didn’t know about the cost...

As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for the Nigerian Presidency, his handlers cast him as a man purged of the dictatorial tendencies and inflexible disposition that marked his time as Nigeria’s military ruler. Behold, the candidate’s adroit...

Dr. Tony Iredia is easily presumed an honourable man. At least his age, educational attainment, offices occupied and profession he belongs to bestow the attributes of honour on him. But “tonnie Iredia” as he fancies to be addressed in...