Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
On April 21, 2013, in far way Washington DC, Mr. Tunde Lemo, CBN, Deputy Governor, Operations, announced to the world that the Apex Bank would discontinued with the printing of small denomination of the Naira in polymer notes because they fade quickly. Mr. Lemo, disclosed...
Monday, May 20th, 2013
In trying to revive what appears to be an old controversy over population control, Niger State governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, recently advocated the promulgation of a law to regulate the number of wives and children any family can have in Nigeria. This is coming on...
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
MANY Nigerians with discerning minds must have been profoundly shocked when they learnt recently that a couple – Adenuga Soyibo and his wife, Elizabeth, who allegedly bought twin babies for N1.8million from a woman in Rivers State and attempted to smuggle them out of the...
Friday, May 17th, 2013
In apparent demonstration of a determined resolve to halt the cascading wave of insecurity in certain parts of the North, President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the three troubled states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa. This has put paid to the...
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
In a recently released report entitled “Illicit Financial Flows From Developing Countries: 2001-2010”, a US-based organization, Global Financial Integrity, has revealed that Nigeria lost $29 billion to illegal financial outflows through crime, corruption, tax evasion and other illicit activities. The report singles out Nigeria as...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
To all intents and purposes, an attempt by the Federal Government to review the 2006 national civil aviation policy has generated more heat than light. The new policy, according to the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, was...
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
The recent revelation that Nigeria’s oil exports will reduce to the barest minimum in June is worrisome because oil is the main source of revenue generation in the country. This state of affairs in the oil sector was made known by Rolake Akinkugbe, Head, Energy...
Monday, May 13th, 2013
Nigeria has been described as the most dangerous place in Africa, after Somalia, for journalists. In its latest survey dated May 2, 2013, the reputable international media advocacy organization – the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), revealed that due to increasing anti-press violence and persecutions,...
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Thousands, sorry tens of thousands of Nigerian Manchester United soccer fans where totally taken aback at the news of the unexpected retirement of the club’s iconic coach, Sir Alex Ferguson. Retiring at the age of 72 years Ferguson had already amazingly passed out of history...
Friday, May 10th, 2013
The underdevelopment of the political ferment in Nigeria is pronounced. The long years of military rule which truncated the national evolution of political parties, structures, operations and discourse is largely to blame. Nevertheless there ought to have been enough time since the return to civil...
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Pini Jason Onyegbadue’s transition has shocked everyone who had the opportunity to come across his astute analytical column to the marrow. The great man was incisive alright and was the opposite of verbosity. Not surprisingly since he had his education well before the system came...
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Media reports have now confirmed what everyone already knows. This is that the Universities in Nigeria have long ceased to be Universal. This of course is a contradiction in terms. For the very idea of a university is wrapped around the concept of universality. This...
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
On 16 April, 2013, reports say armed insurgents in Baga, a border town in Borno State, attacked a patrol team of the Joint Task Force (JTF), killing one Nigerian soldier and wounding five others in the process. The JTF, a force set up by the...
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
There is no end to the engulfing menace of corruption, perfidy and official mismanagement in Nigeria. From outright looting of pension funds, subsidy scam, unspent budget phenomenon to pen robbery across all the tiers and levels of government, stealing has become our national anthem. It...
Monday, May 6th, 2013
There will be riots in a football stadium where the goal post shifts. On the contrary in Nigeria’s current state of anomie only a bored shrug of the shoulders was the reaction to DR Shamsudeen Usman’s statement that ‘vision 20:2020’ is no longer realizable....
