At Long Last! Mass Housing is Here!
An unbiased examination of the 2014 budget proposal presently under consideration of the National Assembly will reveal that it is not doomed after all, as those opposing it would have…
Oil Revenue Leakages: Another Chance for Nigeria
The Presidential Economic Team of 2003 to 2007 which I was privileged to be a member had a running joke – that the NNPC was an independent federal republic on…
50 Questions And The Tragedy of a Nation
The Nigerian nation never ceases to throw up interesting, sometimes absurd scenarios. The latest of these is the ongoing face-off between the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of…
Editorial: Nigeria’s Declining Foreign Investments
The 2013 External Development Report by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that, Foreign Direct Investment (FDIs), declined over $7 billion in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2013,…
Why US bullies Nigeria, but not China and Saudi Arabia
The Igbo have a saying – popularised by the acclaimed novelist, Chinua Achebe – that he who brings home ant-infested faggots should not complain if he is visited by lizards.…
Atiku Abubakar and his desperation for power
The former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, over the weekend, again, jumped out of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the All Progressives Congress (APC). There is really nothing surprising…
Sanusi and the burden of being a Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned Italian political philosopher, observed in The Prince—his treatise on realist political theory—that, “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.” Being himself…
Editorial: Suspension of Concessions and Import Waivers
As Nigerians bemoan the high level of corruption in governments’ finances, it is pertinent to admit that the so-called waivers, exemptions and concessionary permits to importers, issued by the Finance…
APC, Nda-Isaiah and the embers of violence
These are not the best of times for our country, Nigeria. At, least not from the way the opposition politicians are getting ever more desperate with each passing day in…
2015 Elections: Northern elders as scare mongers
In African culture, elders are the custodians of truth. They are the moral guide to the society and they do all in their wisdom to engender peace and preserve the…