Associates and praise-singers of President Bola Tinubu who think that the emerging crisis in the Lagos State House of Assembly is no threat to his 26-year dominion over Lagos should better rethink. Though it now appears as a storm in a teacup, the potential for escalation is very visible. Significantly, this threat to Tinubu is not coming […]

‘A witch chanted yesterday and a child dies today; who does not know that the witch that chanted was responsible for the death of the child’ is a rough translation of a Yoruba adage. In other words, there should be a connection between a chanting witch and a dead child. This popular adage came to […]

By Rosemary Iwunze National Pension Commission, PenCom, said it imposed N14.3 billion fine on 911 employers for late remittance  pension contributions.   The Commission disclosed this in its latest report, adding that it also recovered  N13.83 billion as outstanding pension contributions from the employers.   It will be recalled that Section 92(2) of the Pension Reform Act, PRA […]

TODAY, my radar is on the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Sani Musa, who last Wednesday said that the Senate would produce legislation from the tax reform bills aimed at making Nigeria’s economy a trillion-dollar base. Senator Musa, among other things, also said: “And when you look at advanced economies, Mr. President has said […]

Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma was on the verge of an historic victory on November 11, 1989. The votes for the first democratic elections in Namibia, his long suffering country, were being counted. The colonial South African Apartheid regime was billed to grant independence in March 1990. It was night. Suddenly, the lights went off. Nujoma and […]