Opinion

Following Prime Minster Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress, the question being asked is whether the speech will adversely or positively impact the negotiations between the P5 +1 and Iran, led by the US. The simple answer...

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolph Hitler     Let me start this week’s admonition with this encounter--A young boy enters a barber's shop where I was getting a haircut. Pointing...

  Hate him or love him, the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi remains one of the greatest assets to the political machinery of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(rtd). It was Mr. Amaechi who...

The Buhari-Osinbajo ticket and the APC Manifesto make a number of social spending promises, which have been picked upon for criticism by certain public commentators, as not being consistent with the austere times that are upon us as well...

And it came to pass as the multitude gathered around him at the festival of appraisal of King Nebu of Aso Kingdom which came to pass six years after he hath succeeded King Yar, the son of Mutawalli, the...

"If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap." - Richard Belzer in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You...

The recent call for arrest of High Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo, and other Niger Delta agitators for freedom, is capable of stripping General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd), former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister, of the garb...

An unwelcome, but familiar, sight of lengthy fuel queues sprawled out at many petrol stations across the country has led to widespread panic buying and mass confusion regarding the origins of the scarcity.   Oil & Gas analysts have pointed to...

Late February, the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN closed two public auction structures popularly known as Retail Dutch Auction System RDAS and Wholesale Dutch Auction System WDAS. In a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Ibrahim...

'Yahaya, how are you doing?' I asked. 'Fine, oga' he responded. Its been a while I last called my friend, Yahaya, who works at one of the Bureau de change in Yaba, Lagos. Ever since the depreciation of the naira, clients have stopped paying in dollars, most...