Our Dirty, Rotten Banking Industry Must Be Cleansed
Nigerian banks may not have solely created today’s inclement economic weather, but they have been a catalyst and an albatross on the country. Corrupt, greedy and notorious, top bankers are…
Nigerian banks may not have solely created today’s inclement economic weather, but they have been a catalyst and an albatross on the country. Corrupt, greedy and notorious, top bankers are…
Inter-house sports day (“sports day”) is when primary and secondary schools host their annual sports competition in Nigeria. In many schools, students are grouped into houses for planning, organisation and…
The press has been unkind to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. I find it hard to understand why, of all the problems at this time, from the cost-of-living crisis…
The journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week. In the early 1990s a neighbouring town, Zango Kataf, was…
I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Rolling blackouts…
The resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the recently concluded summit of Heads of State and…
If we accept that design matters in erecting great structures, then the economic hardships facing Nigerians right now is their own making. Nigerians, as collective designers of their democracy, have…
Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will, once again, stage this rite of…
The economy has not been looking that good for ordinary Nigerians for many years. Inflation has spiked, people can’t find jobs and the politicians live large. Inevitably, inequality is leading…
As the troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8 to discuss the quit notice served by three of its…