The Federal Government has been called upon to embark on massive investments in the bio-fuel sub-sector and building of new refineries to diversify the economy to optimise outputs in order to meet it target of ranking among the top 20 economies in the world by 2020.
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X
The memories of those who lost their lives in the course of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola assuming office as governor of Osun State linger. Between April 25 when Aregbesola declared his intention to be at the helm of affairs in the state, through his Oranmiyan campaign group, and November 2010 when the court restored his mandate as governor, scores of his supporters and citizens of Osun defending democracy were brutalised.
I am a Christmas child. No, I was not born on Christmas day – but an exact week to Christmas – on the 18th of December – that last week of active shopping and frenzied last minutes preparation for Christmas celebrants. So imagine Nigeria on the 18th of December, 1966. Two coups had taken place earlier that year – one in January and the other on July.
When this column recently supported the introduction of Islamic Banking to Nigeria, some non-muslims were visibly angry with our standpoint. One critic dismissed our article as ‘sponsored’, and ‘a magnitude of lies’.
For many entertainers this year, success poured like rain, they were literally drowning in it.
From music artistes to Nollywood actors and actresses , comedians, reality show winners, entertainment programme personalities, the list goes on and on.
A wave of attacks in northern Nigerian cities attributed to a radical Islamist group killed 46 people, medical sources said Saturday, raising the death toll sharply from an earlier seven.
