By Bobson Gbinije Father, let me be able to fulfill the expectations of my friends and disappoint the hopes of my enemies —Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) LIKE Zeus on Mount Olympus, Nigerians were transported with celestial joy and they soared on the wings of ecstatic delight following the eight wonder world visit of the then President Bill Clinton […]

By Ifeanyi Afuba AS far back as one can remember the issue of national minimum wage has been problematic both in comprehension and implementation. From the 1981 N125 Minimum Wage Act enacted by the Shehu Shagari government to the present N30, 000 minimum wage law passed by the National Assemby in 2019, there has been […]

By Kingsley Chinedu Imagine a leader having an individual with the attributes of a tiger’s strength and the peerless vision of an eagle as an advisor. Tigers are the largest amongst other wild cats; extremely fast and powerful. The eagle sees the whole picture from miles away, picking out granular details with clinical precision. What […]

By Oghenerukevwe Udumebraye The allegations trailing the operation of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) was a subject of debate at the House of Representatives last Thursday, following a petition by a former Managing Director of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO), Mr. Baba Yusuf. In his petition to the lawmakers, Yusuf had alleged […]

By Reno Omokri For one year in 1998, I lived as a member of the National Youth Service Corp, in Potiskum, Yobe state, where I read the Quran and befriended many almajirinci. One of the major culture shocks I experienced is the vast knowledge that these itinerant scholars had about the Quran, the hadiths of […]