Opinion

There was a brief renewed hope on Monday 26 February 2024 that President Tinubu was about to curb the rising wasteful high cost of governance by promising to implement the 2012 Steve Oronsaye Report commissioned by President…

By Shehu Bashir Esq   I am happy to observe that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has started to take control and do the needful to rein in the criminals and saboteurs and forex speculators. I am particularly happy to note…

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In response to my September 30 column titled "Thought Subsidy Was Bad. Why is Tinubu bringing it back?” a Facebook follower of mine by the name of Anas Mundi asked, “So…

Alex Otti   Herbert why? Why? Why? You told me you were going for a board meeting in London from where you will head out to the US and return after a few days and immediately come to Abia to see me. So, what happened?…

By  Nasir El-Rufai I was devastated to learn early on Saturday, February 10th of the tragic death of Herbert Wigwe along with this wife, son and friends in a helicopter crash in the USA. I was sad, very sad and had to…

I'm deeply saddened by the tragic news of the passing of my dear friend, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, CEO of Access Holdings, along with his wife and son, and another close friend, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, former group chairman of NGX Group.…

But they said they are the whiz kids from Lagos. That the magic of Lagos was going to be reignited at the federal level. Eight months after, it is ebin kpawa What really happened? Where are the heroes of Lagos? What is on…

By Farooq Kperogi The searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and so unexampled in its rawness that even diasporan Nigerians like me who live tens…

By Godwin Adindu An orphan has no father, no mother and, at times, no siblings. Governor Alex Otti, unarguably, passes as the metaphor of an orphan in power. He is the only surviving Labour Party Governor and Abia…

By Prof. Obi  Nwakanma Nwanna, Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the "Biafra of the mind." Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep.…