Opinion

There's no place in the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations, or the International Civil Aviation Organization that the use of ladder in disembarking from an airplane is a recommended or standard best practice. This is too elementary a regulation that...

“How was Christmas?” “It’s come and gone. Life goes on. We thank God for the gift of life.” “Life will always go on.” “But without life, we can’t have hope.” “Without hope, life has no meaning.” “I am still in a Christmas mood though....

It is rather fortuitous that Igwe Osita Agwuna 111, who for five decades reigned as Eze of the town of Enugwu Ukwu and Igwe of Umunri, was born in December (exactly December 22), 1921. I suspect that most would...

Amid new discoveries by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the on-going probe of $2 billion arms procurement scandal, otherwise called Dansukigate, the role of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the disbursement of monies has come...

The world woke up on Friday December 18 to the calamity that is the proxy war in Syria. The war began four years ago. Over 250,000 killed. Cities destroyed, 7.6 million, internally displaced. Over four million are refugees with...

A few days ago at the National Assembly, Mr. President presented the 2016 budget of N6trillion. That event couldn’t have gone without certain flips and flops: it was Mr. President’s first time, and he didn’t know that he had...

The Nigerian 2016 Budget proposal is finally here. I received with great joy, the news that the President has considered, as part of activities for 2016, financial literacy education for market women, traders and artisans. This is indeed cheering...

There is no doubt that the Nigerian Prisons are among the most congested prisons in the world. From the Maximum Security Prisons to the Female Prison, the story is the same! And from the records available, there is no...

Christmas looks so different these days from what it was when I was growing up. It is so different it is almost unrecognizable. In this same country, in the 70s, Christmas was a season of celebration, but also of...

Ibrahim Lamorde the Adamawa State born police man was drafted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission few years after his mentor Nuhu Ribadu also a Fulani from same Adamawa State was unseated unceremoniously to make way for Mrs...