A POLYGRAPH machine is often called a “lie-detector”. In most countries with advanced legal traditions, you cannot obtain conviction against an accused person based on a failed polygraph test.

IT was Ryszard Kapuscinski, the late Polish journalist who lived in and wrote so extensively about Africa, who insisted: “The continent is too large to describe… Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say ‘Africa’. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist”.

“On the grant of the Charter to the company in July 10, 1886, the man to whom Goldie turned to as Chief Justice was Sir James Marshall. The headquarters was at Asaba.’’ — Oluwole, T. S. Elias, Makers of Nigerian Law, Lagos 1963.

By Owei Lakemfa THE gale of sacking appointed political office holders is here again like the seasonal rain. An executive governor for whatever reason takes a decision to sack his cabinet or some appointed officer and simply goes on to implement it without thinking through the process and manner such a decision is to be […]

DURING the live screening of Lamido Sanusi’s confirmatory appearance before the Senate, last June, I was in a friend’s office. My friend had a visitor, an ex-banker now PR practitioner, who had professional knowledge of the Central Bank Governor. They had worked together at the United Bank for Africa. She had very good things to say about his competence as a banker and knowledge of the banking sector.

By the 1999 Constitution it is the people of Nigeria who in order to exercise their sovereign power in the conduct of their public and private affairs constitute themselves into the electorate

By Paul Bassey Events of the last three weeks, including two editorial pieces on our sports, coming as it were from two top newspapers – Guardian and The Sun – have set me thinking on the future of sports in this country, the most recent being the reelection bid of the outgoing President of the […]

By Ochereome Nnanna LAST Friday, September 18, 2009, most Nigerian newspapers led with the bone-chilling disclosure by the State Security Services (SSS) of a plot to kidnap two ministers, collect ransom and kill one of them. The ministers were Dr. Sam Egwu (Education) and Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (Labour and Productivity). Three students of the University […]

By Les Leba Most of our people would recognize the role of commercial banks as custodians of our savings, but probably much less are in reality acquainted with the role of banks as lenders to individuals as well as corporations. This is not surprising as possibly less than 10% of our estimated population of 150m […]

Thereis increasing polarization of views about what they gave us and what we want. They refers to those who have governed this country, and we refers to the people, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The bone of contention is the Constitution in the context of what amendments the National Assembly wants to undertake and how qualified they are to do so.

It’s a sound argument that every living thing has a home. For plants, it’s a special terrain, climate and atmosphere that determine the location of the home. For animals it’s more or less the same, you can be a hot weather species or cold one, you could inhabit the deep or the land but a home to a human being is a lot more different.

BUT then, why should a bank give out billions of naira in unsecured loans? Why should top bank officials abuse their privileged positions by using tricks to approve huge loans to themselves and their cronies without adequate security backing?

OLD age touches us all, for, if we’re not yet of that range, we have parents, grandparents, and relatives who are. So, old age should be of some concern to everyone. I was glad to receive a few responses from young people, among the many I got, understandably, from the middle-aged and the elderly.

Women! Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Honourable Member of the House of Representatives and former (?) media personality, led the chorus and the whole house joined in.

The marital heartbeat within our Diasporan community is on life support. It has been afflicted by several ailments- ailments that have left it enfeebled, emaciated and lacking all the nourishing nutrients for a healthy life.