Also,a former Governor of the Central Bank and now Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, threw cold water on some of the assumptions used. His words: “When I was the Governor of the CBN, the economy was growing at 37 per cent. The oil sector was not adding anything to GDP growth. The growth was coming from agriculture, services and trade, which is also very revealing.”

By Yaya Ademola As a part of the silver jubilee anniversary of the creation of Osun State  on August 27, 1991, President Muhammadu Buhari on September 1, 2016 commissioned Osogbo Government High School. The school has the capacity to accommodate 3,000 pupils, equipped with  modern academic and sporting facilities is rated as one of the […]

Professor Soyinka’s comment can be found at the back of an album which must be a rare collection of artworks presented as photography. It takes one to know one; and Soyinka, an incomparable artist himself, is the sort of person to appreciate genius in an artist operating in another medium. The album is titled SUNMI’s LENS – medium BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE; and I have a copy on account of despair and idleness.

“All is well” is a phrase used to death, even when all is not well. Many believe that the more they say it is, then the fact that it is not well, it will become well. Another well-worn saying is “e go better” or “only God will save Nigeria”.

Politics is the survival of the fittest-jungle justice you may call it. Sometimes, journalists could be found wanting in occasions that demand strict adherence to ethics of the profession, fairness.To them, it is called shenanigan.

About a month ago, GOtv launched a new package called GOtv Lite.

Described as “currently the most affordable pay-TV bouquet in Nigeria”, GOtv Lite targets existing subscribers, and gives those who opt-in access to over 20 channels. One interesting thing about the package is its alias, Small Pepper. The brand curators explain that they played on the use of ‘pepper’ as a slang for money. Small Pepper thus translating to small money, connoting the affordability of the package.

At the advent of renewed mindless attacks by Fulani herdsmen on fellow Nigerians with the height of it all coming in Agatu and Enugu where, as usual, hundreds of innocent and defenceless citizens were mowed down in cold blood, invasions which caused a huge outcry among well-meaning Nigerians and the international community, several eminent Nigerians have risen in defence of the herdsmen designated the fourth most dangerous terrorist group in the world by the Global Terror Index, claiming an alibi for them by saying that they are not Nigerians.

Apart from the 114 roads that are being commissioned by the state government, the representatives of all the local councils have been asked to submit the list of bad roads in their communities to begin the second phase of road construction.

I HAVE followed with great interest the allegations of plagiarism made against the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,and rebuttals made by his office. I am constrained to write in respect of same with a view to setting the records straight having had privileged knowledge and information about the conception of the ‘Change begins with me’ campaign.

THERE is no iota of doubt about it after all: we have ceaselessly experienced a crisis of Buharism since our present president,Buhari, was exalted by us into the presidency of our country. Glaringly, diurnally it is entering our exalted consciousness and imagination that our pre-election idea or picture of him was one that exalted a man who had (and still has) an exalted impression of himself.

ON Wednesday, September 28th 2016, most indigenes of Edo state from home and abroad and from all works of life are expected to have arrived the state to exercise their civic rights. We are all expected to vote into office a new governor who will preside over the affairs of state, for another four years.

THERE must be some extraordinary milestones in the journey of a people at which point their leaders must periodically pause for deeper reflections with simultaneous exhibition of a modicum of endearing dignity.

One of the newspapers published an opinion article by a certain Robert Obioha, titled “Peterside and APC’s Fantasy” on September 2, 2016. Reading this article, one can easily adduce his motivation for penning, otherwise, how does one explain the blatant disregard for issues raised by Hon. Dakuku Peterside, flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 Rivers State gubernatorial elections? Or a poignant lack of discourse in the article about critical issues bordering on the economy and security of Rivers State?

DURING the tenure of one of our past presidents, I was given a publication to distil some of its content for use in another publication. The publication, a “Mid-term Report” of the president’s administration, featured inputs from various ministries, departments and agencies. It was meant to project the goals and achievements of the government of the day. And, not surprisingly, its foreword was signed by the then incumbent president, an indication that his government endorsed it at the highest level.

How we respond to an issue is in many cases more important than the issue itself. And one such issue is the current economic travails Nigeria is currently grappling with.