Where is Yahaya Bello? Asks Pius Mordi
The political class has a perfect knowledge of the mentality of Nigerians they have been ruling. They engage in reckless handling of state resources safe in the constitutionally guaranteed immunity…
Presidency pick holes in New York Times report on Nigeria’s economic situation
Ruth Maclean and Ismail Auwal’s feature story with the title ‘Nigeria Confronts Its Worst Economic Crisis in a Generation’, published on June 11, reflected the typical predetermined, reductionist, derogatory, and…
Oborevwori’s hand in Nigeria’s oil and gas investments, by Ken Ugbechie
In the past one year, Nigeria’s crude oil production has been on the ascendancy. Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, said…
The Need to Reposition June 12, by Monday Philips Ekpe
Nigeria’s attempts to review or renew its identity in various components of nationhood are sure sign sof life of some sort, if not outright dynamism. Like in the lives of…
Democratising ‘Emilokan’, By Pius Mordi
They called themselves ‘The Reformers’. By their reckoning, they represent a radical thinking in the search for a political and federal arrangement that will suit Nigeria. On Monday, June 10,…
The healthiest people don’t go to the gym; here’s what they do
By Andrew Merle If you want to be as healthy as possible, there are no treadmills or weight machines required. Don’t just take my word for it — look to…
Tinubu, The Audacity To Hope: One Year After
By Segun Adeleye See how time flies! It’s a year since that symbolical declaration in his inaugural speech “….that these things are within our proximate reach because my name is Bola…
Korea-Africa Summit: Has a new chapter opened in South Korea-Africa Relations?
By Tunde Rahman With the conclusion last Wednesday June 5, 2024 of the first-ever South Korea-Africa summit attended by no fewer than 30 African Heads of State and South Korea’s…
Ogbuku’s new lease at NDDC, by Ken Ugbechie
The Niger Delta region, once described by Michael Peel, a former West Africa correspondent of the influential Financial Times as A Swamp Full of Dollars (title of his book published in 2009), is Nigeria’s…
Hail Nigeria, Arise Compatriots!, by Monday Philips Ekpe
The last one week has been saturated with arguments for or against the change of Nigeria’s national anthem from the one that had been in use since 1978 back to…