President Muhammadu Buhari and his speech writers must moderate their unguarded use of percentages to address issues at the core of Nigeria’s unity. Shortly after assuming power in 2015, the President in a media briefing in the United States, said he would not accord those who gave him five per cent of his votes the […]

IF writing alone could save Nigeria from doom occasioned by bad leadership, the powerful, prolific pen of Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo would long have done so before his death on Saturday, February 1, 2020. Unfortunately, Nigerians now have scant regard for literature. Nwankwo’s pen could not stop writing until his death. He must be sorely […]

NIMASA: NOT many commentators would give a pass mark to our public institutions in terms of creating value and delivering on their mandates. But a recent report of some transparency measures at one of our institutions, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, noted in the past for big-scale sleaze, caught our attention to […]

WE join other conscientious Nigerians and groups who have risen against any notion of a pay package increase for political officeholders. There is absolutely nothing to justify such a move. The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, Mr. Elias Mbam, drew the ire of human rights and social advocacy groups such […]

IT is of grave danger to pretend not to see it, keep quiet over it or try to be nice about it and water it down. Many evidences point to it – Christians are hunted down in Northern Nigeria.  The biggest symbols of this sad truth are the remaining over 100 Chibok schoolgirls, Dapchi schoolgirl, […]