Opinion

By Oluwole Ojewale and Freedom Onuoha Solid minerals are critical national assets — and should be prioritised like the country’s oil and gas exploration. Nigeria’s mining sector is diverse in mineral resources that…

By Azuka Onwuka As a child growing up in Nnewi, Anambra State, in the 1970s and 80s, it is shocking to remember that we had some facilities that are not available in Nigeria of today. In the 1970s, Nnewi was a…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu   In 1968, Stanislav Andrzejewski, the former Polish soldier and prisoner-of-war, who later founded the Sociology Department at the University of Reading in England, coined the word ‘kleptocracy”,…

If as Ribadu said the Tinubu administration inherited a bankrupt country from the Buhari Administration and if as Edun said we as at today, we are spending a whopping 98 per cent of all our revenue to service debts... Then it…

Nigeria is the only country I know that abandoned its cash cow in the Niger Delta (to political thieves), & chasing shadows abroad, in the name of foreign investments. I am here to tell you that Saudi Arabia will not revamp…

A rejoinder By Bolaji O. Akinyemi We didn’t accept Tinubu- The Patriots “No! This is a wrong caption: We didn’t accept Tinubu but accepted the reality of his government, which derives from the finality of Supreme Court…

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has all but stopped, falling 95 per cent since the Taliban (under UN sanctions for extremism) outlawed poppy production last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said. "Opium…

By Maazi Obinna Agommuo Late President Umaru Musa Yar’ adua, during his reign, he refused to see Dangote even with all his lobbyists. President Yar ‘Adua was quick to tell him Dangote to stay away from his Government. President…

I am compelled to write this for posterity. To capture my exact feelings in this moment. You don’t know me and probably will never see this but if you ever feel like you are responsible for dashing the hopes of well meaning…

By Erasmus Ikhide IN 2016, Alhaji Aliko Dangote got $2b dollars allocation from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by processing form 'A' for intangible goods. He got the dollars at the cheapest rate, moved it out of the country to…