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My recent misadventures with United Bank for Africa

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,…

Tinubu’s weaponization of ethnicity

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…

Double jeopardy: From PMS import to Crude Oil import

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,…

Call IMF, World Bank bluff, fix forex rate

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…

Tinubu, Sanusi, Subsidies, and the economics of empathy

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…

Goodnight my brother Herbert!

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?…

HERBERT WIGWE – GONE TOO SOON

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…