When the war in the Gulf region started a couple of weeks ago, all Nigerians thought of was how many more dollars the country would be earning from each barrel of crude oil sold in the international market. Our lives are tied to the prices of oil, to which everything else we do is tied. If […]

The slash-and-burn agriculture which forms a major plank of shifting cultivation used to announce the coming of a new planting season. As children we didn’t like the clearing part of it but the burning aspect was the big deal. No child my age really loved to stay under a thick bush at the time with a […]

From last week continues the narrative of the plan by the British Monarch to play host to President Bola Tinubu and his wife on March 18 in Windsor Castle, with its significance in the light of similar hostings of past Nigerian and other African heads of state over the years. President William Taubman of Liberia […]

“Even the clever one is advised.” – African proverb The tempo behind the campaign for State Police as a solution to pervasive and prolonged failure by the Nigerian state to secure the citizen, uphold the law and ensure social order appears to have spiked at a rate and speed which should advise caution. The nation stirred […]

By Dele Sobowale “Wisdom in people consists of the anticipation of consequences” – Norman Cousins, 1915-1990, Vanguard Book Of Quotations, P274 “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”  Until a few days ago, it would never have crossed my that I could be defending the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, established to foster economic […]