For decades bad policy decisions have bedevilled development in Nigeria and fuelled corruption. We have tended to go for populist solutions and ignored the long term impact of such decisions…
The Peoples Democratic Party is dying of numerous self-inflicted wounds and may not recover for as long as it thinks that Ali Modu Sheriff is its deadliest poison. From the…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo will officially be 80 in March and there are many who think he is hyperactive for his age. He is probably one of the busiest former…
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Donald Trump’s stunning and “upset” victory over Hillary Clinton in the recent US presidential election should primarily go down in history as the triumph of a political outsider over a…
To be sure, there have been many times past in the short life of this country when many people are overwhelmed by a sense of frustration almost…
Some months ago, President Muhammadu Buhari urged Nigerian lawyers not to defend corrupt people, but rather to expose them when they approach lawyers for representation. Buhari spoke against the backdrop…
This is the second time I will be experiencing austerity in my adult life. In the first spell, between the early and mid-1980s, I was in my twenties but was…
Since I heard about the death of a former Abuja NUJ chairman, Mr. Chuks Ehirim, and the condition in which he died, I have been angry. Angry at myself and…
These days, the answer to the headline question comes in dollars. You have probably heard the story of the orange seller who told a potential customer that one orange now…