Opinion

Dear  President  Jonathan: I, for  one, don’t  wish  you  dead. But  from  the  reprisals  Governor  Fayose’s  “death  wish”  advertorial  procreated, one  thing  is  crescent  clear: A  pint  of  our  one-hundred-and-seventy-something  countrymen  do. For  very  obvious  reasons, might  I  add.   Being ...

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”―...

The historian's duty is to separate the true from the false, the certain from the uncertain, and the doubtful from that which cannot be accepted-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never knew some presumptuous apologists of the ruling government are very vast...

The weekend press was, as usual very generous with its pages dealing with the Special Adviser to the President on Media, “my friend before, before” as we say in everyday parlance, Dr. Reuben Abati. Reuben was joined in the...

In the beginning, he had no enemies to fight, like his biblical namesake President Jonathan appeared loyal and true to his looks. He was not ashamed of talking about the poverty he defeated to rise to the most exalted...

Femi Otedola has rejoined the club of global billionaires, a momentous wealth sourced with outstanding gains he made in the petroleum industry. The Forbes magazine, the most recognized and acceptable expert on the evaluation of wealth metrics rated the...

Less than one month to the conduct of Presidential and National Assembly elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has been meeting with different interest groups and organizations ahead of the polls. From the market women to professional bodies, the President has...

Not a few across the world are convinced that it has become completely impossible to feel any sympathy for President Robert Mugabe no matter what happens to him. Mugabe’s 35-year old rule which has rewarded Zimbabweans with untold hardship...

The last time Nigerians enjoyed something really close to an exciting Presidential debate was during the 1993 Presidential elections. I recall the colourful and memorable encounter between the late Chief MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party and Alhaji...

The Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board has been a key executor of housing policies initiated by Federal Government of Nigeria from the pre-independence era to address among other things the housing and mortgage needs of Federal Government employees...