Looking For Jobs, Finding Death
Whether anyone likes to accept it or not the bitter truth is that 80 per cent of our GRADUATES are unemployed in Nigeria today whilst 51 per cent of our…
Editorial: Questions over the NNPC Forensic Audit
The ovation that welcomed the announcement of a forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the alleged non-remittance of billions of petrol dollars into the Federation Account…
Sanusi Lamido: My Enemy, My Friend, My Hero and My Whistle-blower
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the suspended and victimized Nigeria’s apex bank chief is already my man of the year for 2013- he has oscillated from my enemy to my friend, my…
Assisting President Goodluck Jonathan at a time of a wave of Bad luck of Events
There is no doubt that the people of Nigeria are exasperated with the continued wave of bad luck as observed in the non-stopping daily acts of Northern killings, Southern kidnapping,…
Will Nigeria disintegrate?
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, will on Monday, March 17, 2014, inaugurate the 492-member National Conference whose task is to redefine “the way forward for our nation”. The initial antipathy to…
Ebere Wabara: Merchant of OUK, The Expired Drugs
He describes himself as a Language Expert. Yes, that is not contestable. However, somebody should remind Ebere Wabara what Moliere said about education, intelligence, foolishness and wisdom; that a learned…
Editorial: The US Report on Nigerian Corruption
The alarm bell on the rate of corruption in Nigeria sounded by the United States, though hardly surprising, is scandalous and unacceptable, given that Nigeria’s diverse and growing security challenges…
Presidential Victimization of Sanusi and the treasonable theft of $20 billion Dollars
Despite the presidential victimization of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s sacked Central Bank Chief, the truth is that a $20 billion dollar theft has been exposed and the sheer size of…
The Phony Defence Of The Naira And The Folly Of A Nation
Nigerians generally believe that large foreign reserves are useful for defending the exchange rate of the naira. However, our total foreign reserves actually comprise two primary income streams; the first…
Where Is Our Missing $20Billion -By Kabiru Tsakuwa
Nigerians can easily recall the last nationwide fuel subsidy strike embarked upon to protest against fuel subsidy increment by the federal government which was abruptly terminated by the devastating January…