The parlous state of the economy attracted the concern of Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who, after paying a visit to the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohmmed, last week, called on the Federal Government to summon an emergency economic conference to discuss a hoslitic way out of the current tempetuous doldrums.

We are not surprised at the dust being raised in the bid by the three geopolitical zones of the old Northern Nigeria to obtain what is described as “a multi-billion Dollar” loan from the Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

The primary responsibility of the military is to defend the constitution and the territorial integrity of the country. Their tough and rigorous training is designed to build their enduring capacity demanded by their calling. That is what differentiates them from civilians. That is why they are confined to the barracks except when on duty.

ONE of the sacred collaborative duties of the executive and legislative arms of government at the federal level is the preparation, passage and endorsement of the budget of the Federal Government.

After being initially stigmatised in the “missing budget” saga, the 2016 Appropriation Bill, which is being tooth-combed for passage by the National Assembly, if properly implemented, could revive the economy and rapidly exit Nigeria, for the first time since the civil war, from being a hostage to crude oil.

Nigerians have often wondered why, just when it seems our gallant military forces are about to snuff out the Boko Haram insurgents, they make daring resurgences.

An emerging controversy over Nigeria’s deficit funding is gradually taking the centre stage as more concerns over 2016 fiscal year come up.

Last week, Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s leading economy rating agenccies indicated that the emerging fiscal and monetary policy responses to the oil price crash may lead to a further downgrade of its Nigeria rating, thereby increasing country risks for all forms of capital inflows including borrowings.

ON February 1, 2016, the World Health Organisation, WHO, declared the Zika virus infection a public health emergency of international concern, following widespread reports about its suspected role in causing birth defects among newborns when pregnant women are infected. The WHO says it expects 3-4 million Zika infections in the Americas over the next 12 months.

The ripples generated by the June 21, 2014, governorship election in Ekiti State seem to be widening. Former People’s Democratic Party,PDP Secretary in the state, Dr. Temitope Aluko, recently made startling revelations in Abuja on how federal might was allegedly used to subvert the poll’s credibility.

With the recent Supreme Court verdict on the epic gubernatorial election in Rivers State which pronounced Governor Nyesom Wike as duly elected, we are calling on all political gladiators to sheath their swords and give peace a chance.

Governor Nyesome Wike, of River state last Wednesday got a reprive at the Supreme Court which upheld his victory in the April 11 2015 governorship election. The seven-man panel at the apex court in a unanimous decision read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, returned the embattled Wike as the valid winner of the poll as declared […]

President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday rewarded members of the under seventeen World Golden Eaglets that won the maiden edition of the youth soccer championship in China in 1985. Members of the squad were given monetary rewards along side the winners of last year’s FIFA organized U 17 Championship in Chile.

WE are deeply disturbed by what appears as the renewal of conflict in the Niger Delta between the so-called militants and the armed forces after over seven years of peace and calm in our oil-rich region.

It has been an annual ritual for January 15, of every year to be remembered in special ways by various political interest groups, including the Nigerian Armed Forces. The reason for this is not farfetched. Apart from the day Nigeria was amalgamated in 1914 and the day she got her Independence from the British colonialists, January 15, 1966 was the day that the destiny of Nigeria was totally and painfully redefined. It was the day a bloody coup that ended the First Republic and brought in the military also triggered a counter-coup that plunged Nigeria into its historic civil war.

Nigeria  must watch the  new frontier of conflict which is developing between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran with keen interest and grave concern. These influential and powerful Muslim countries in the perennially conflict-riddled Middle East  took their simmering animosities to active mode when Saudi  Arabia  executed radical Shiite cleric, […]