THE rising profile of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan certainly went up another notch, at least on a high moral ground, when he boldly dropped hints on how the Muhammadu Buhari administration can solve the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, protracted strike. At the 70th birthday anniversary of one of the voices of conscience […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, recent remit of $265 million to about 20 or so foreign airlines operating in the country is a step in the right direction. The Federal Government had defaulted in her  obligation to provide the dollar cover for about $600 million worth of ticket sales in naira for remission to […]

IT is surprising that Nigerians have remained aloof to the sobering confession by retired Brigadier-General Sani Usman Kukasheka that he and former Army Chief, retired Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau, were asked by undisclosed unpatriotic elements to topple former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010. Kukasheka, who made this confession at a public lecture, named a former General […]

Some leaders and statesmen of the 20th Century gained their prominence or notoriety through aggression, conflicts, empire building and the defence of empires. Mikhail Gorbachev gained his through reforms of such extensive scopes that, unlike any other statesman of his class, changed the world for the better. He will be remembered as the man who […]

THE government of President Muhammadu Buhari moves in mysterious ways. This it has demonstrated through its shifting attitudes to the security of our oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta. The Goodluck Jonathan administration had awarded contracts for the pipeline protection from oil thieves to repentant Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. But when Buhari’s […]