The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has once again reaffirmed his image as a people-oriented leader, with the suspension of the scheduled “Lagos Peace Walk” which was stoking political tension in the nation’s economic capital. The “Walk” was part of the contents of the Governor’s pronouncements on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, while addressing the state’s […]

Up till 2014, most reputable international investment ranking organisations reported Nigeria as the number one investment destination in Africa. In particular, a United States-based economic advisory firm, Frontiers Strategy Group, affirmed that Nigeria had continued to attract growing interest of international organisations and multinationals in spite of Boko Haram insurgency marked with suicide bombings. Since […]

FOR the second time this year, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has engaged in a tit-for-tat with our international partners over bilateral rows. In June, Nigeria banned micro-blogging site, Twitter, from operating within the country in retaliation for the censure and suspension of President Buhari’s Twitter handle over comments that the tech giant considered an infringement […]

THE Federal Government’s Road Infrastructure and Refreshment Tax Credit Scheme, RIRTCS, received a massive boost recently when the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, announced the approval of newly-commercialised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s, application to play a major, ambitious role in roads reconstruction nationwide. Perhaps taking a leaf from the Dangote Group’s successful […]

VICE President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s recent call for state governors to start seeing their sub-national entities as “sovereign” units carries many implications. At the maiden edition of the Ekiti State Investment Forum, the VP observed: “You have a bigger GDP than many nations. There is a different mindset when you are sure of a monthly […]

The tragic end of Master Sylvester Oromoni Jr has sparked off another round of social outrage, with widespread demands for justice. Oromoni, an 11-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, had reported threats to his life by senior students who were trying to force him to join their cult to the school authorities. […]

THE submission of the 309-page Report of the Justice Doris Okuwobi-led Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the Restitution for Victims of SARS-related Abuses and Other Matters last Monday was a demonstration of the good faith which the Lagos State Government, LASG, adopted to unravel what really happened at the Lekki Tollgate on October 20, 2020. […]

IT is encouraging to see that President Muhammadu Buhari is in touch with elders and leaders of the Igbo nation in efforts to resolve the crisis of confidence between the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, and the Federal Government over the latest detention of IPOB’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The IPOB secessionist leader was recaptured […]

THE Senate’s indictment of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over invasion of the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, is a sign that all hope is not lost on the Ahmed Lawan-led upper chamber of the National […]

“ALL’s well that ends well,” as William Shakespeare famously put it. It has been a sigh of relief galore since the Anambra governorship poll Returning Officer, Prof. Florence Obi, announced Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, as the final winner. It was one election that seemed headed for an apocalyptic outcome. […]