STORIES abound about corruption in the Nigeria Customs Service. The Service told its own story at a public hearing of the joint Senate Committee on Agriculture and Industry. While everyone accuses the Customs of failing to stop smuggling, Customs Comptroller (Import and Export), Mr. Julius Nwagwu threw the issue back to the high and mighty […]

THE attack on Atlas Cove should worry those who thought amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta would stop militancy and criminality. It is a long distance from the Niger Delta to Lagos, where the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, struck on Sunday night. What informed this attack at the height […]

CHIEF Teslim Folarin is the Senate Leader, an office that makes him a principal officer of the National Assembly.  A man of indisputable integrity, he represented his colleagues in a published interview that centred on the nation’s expenditure on the members of the National Assembly. With all the talk about accountability and the trillions of […]

THE determination of the Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola to implement the Nigeria’s largely ignored tax laws is drawing attentions, sometimes the wrong ones. It is to be expected, nobody likes to pay tax, we just do it out of obligation, or in situations we cannot avoid. Nigerians sometimes think excuses are acceptable in place […]

PRESIDENT Barack Obama of the USA told Africans the truth that we have often failed to imbibe, “Africa’s future is up to Africans”. He admitted the role that colonialism has played in Africa’s current situation. It is obvious that most of the problems of the continent today derive more from daft and greedy leadership that […]