Opinion

By Dr Ade Dosumu The proposal by the Federal Government to grant full Autonomy to the Local Governments in Nigeria is a welcome development and long overdue. I commend the Federal government whose Attorney General Of…

BY Prince Tony Ezeimo (Ikenga-Nimo) Your Excellency, Sequel to your election bid, there were high hopes in Anambra State. Many Ndi Anambra believed that your reign as a Governor will put a permanent end to a couple…

By Law Mefor Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, once declared that "no nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing its citizens beyond their capacity to pay." The reasoning goes that…

By Pat Utomi Each call from a journalist to discuss the ‘crisis’ in the Labour Party makes me feel the crisis of elite in Nigeria is so advanced that people are unable to recognize the difference between storms in…

Joseph Irikefe The Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has again inadvertently revealed its penchant for dubious and shady deals in the face of this 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. This project returned…

By Abang Mkpandiok I have stated my position about this project. I do not believe that Hitech Construction Company Limited can construct this road from Lagos to Calabar (spanning a distance of over 700 kilometres) in…

By Dr. Ola Balogun It is symptomatic of the on-going collapse of Nigeria's social, economic, cultural and political structures that our country currently has a record number of banks, churches, mosques, legislators,…

By Erasmus Ikhide   Precisely five years ago, July 19, 2018, I forewarned in an article titled: “Avoiding The Road To Kigali”, published by countless newspapers, home and away, when President Muhammadu Buhari’s bigotry…

Peter Obi   After my comments on the embarrassing grain assistance which Nigeria received from a war-torn Ukraine, some government spinners in defence tried throwing up a comparison pointing at Egypt which also got grain…

The problems of Nigeria are humongous in extent and chaotic in detail. In our efforts to end PMS imports, we graduated to crude oil import. Nigeria is Africa’s largest crude oil producer, in close competition with Angola,…