SINCE President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB came to power, people have argued that Ndigbo should be punished for not voting massively for him. Some say it was a political miscalculation by the Igbos, that they put all their eggs in the basket of former President Goodluck Jonathan, they are politically naïve, and all that. Such people do not understand where Igbos are coming from. Igbos are very grateful to God for the turnout of events, because if it were not so, they would have been the victims of post elections violence in the north. Igbos have investments in almost every nook and corner of Nigeria, which would have been torched. Ndigbo are the ones who need a peaceful Nigeria more than any other tribe, because they have more at stake in the unity and stability of Nigeria. We simply continue to thank God for Nigeria, in spite of all.

Even if it’s true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I’m having a hard time figuring how beautiful we really are when the whole world is watching. Call me naive but I actually think Nigeria’s problem is religion.

ON Wednesday 23rd September, the Akwa Ibom State government rolled out the drums to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state in a very lavish and ostentatious event that defied logic and common sense and ran contrary to the mood of the nation.

FROM the cradle darkness walked upon the surface of the Niger Delta killing any splutter of fluorescence like sunrise extinguishing lamps in Soyinka’s  ‘Death in the Dawn’. From 1957 and beyond the consumed fluorescence turned into a vast void, only the crude oil flowing forcibly to illuminate demarcated territories. So some criminals emerged and militarily […]

SIR, I am strongly compelled by recent developments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), particularly the recent appointment of Dr.  Babatunde Victor  Adeniran  as Group Executive Director, (Commercial & Investment) of NNPC,  to write you. Ordinarily, in seasons such as we are today where government is in dire need of people of like minds; […]

EXACTLY two days time, we shall be celebrating another independence day, a day that we have always looked forward to with nostalgia; with reminisces, of hopes built and dashed, of good and bad. We remember the celebrations, the military parades and Air Force displays, the merriments and parties, the sober and the drunk, and then […]

CHURCH attendance, fervent religious attitudes, and a strong faith in a supreme being are reportedly declining in many parts of the world, especially in the US where the recent research by Pew Research Center showed “the steadily rising share of people who are religiously unaffiliated – from 16 per cent in 2007 to 23 per […]

At the recently-held Kogi State APC gubernatorial primaries, a man who is described by many Kogites as a great grassroots mobiliser and who also happens to be a former governor of the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, emerged as the gubernatorial candidate. Subsequently, after much suspense, he announced his running mate – Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, a legislator representing a constituency in Lagos State.

YOU know that saying: ‘Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it?’ Well, current Senate President, Bukola Saraki is experiencing that feeling at the moment.

I WILL go straight to the point without any preamble. Allegations abound against President Muhammadu Buhari [PMB] that he is selective in his war against corruption. It is being alleged that his war to “kill” corruption is targeted against members of the People Democratic Party [PDP] alone and that he is not lifting a finger against members of the All Progressive Party [APC]. Beyond the selective attack on the opposition party members and every member of the previous government under President Jonathan, Buhari’s accusers also detest his type of Gestapo system of arrest and investigation.

JOB creation is the notion that jobs are created in response to some sort of event or situation, for example; great depression – an economic slump (a period of poor performance or inactivity in an economy, market or industry, a recession, signaling a slowdown of business activity) or high level of unemployment. Conceptually, job creation is the proactive opposite of unemployment.

NIGERIA is undergoing change, even when some, who started chanting change, may not believe in the true change, the people have accepted change in all its ramifications, and it will run through Nigeria till we change.

WHEN an accomplished professional returns home from the Diaspora to contribute his quota to the development of his country, it ought to be seen as an act of patriotism and compassion. Against this background, the conference on the role of members of the Diaspora, which took place recently, in Abuja, must be aptly situated as a deft strategic move by government to mainstream the vast human resource outside the shores of this nation hitherto excluded from developmental calculus.

THE editorial in Vanguard Newspaper of Thursday September 17, at page 18, is a belated remark on the latest development of the salary issue in the state of Osun.

I WISH to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari for his choice of the leadership of the NNPC, Dr.Ibe Kachikwu, a gentleman of impeccable pedigree and his crack team of Executive Directors that includes Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Executive Director, Exploration & Production; Mr. Isiaka Abdulrazaq, Group Executive Director, Finance & Services; Engr. Dennis Nnamdi Ajulu, Group Executive Director, Refining & Technology; and Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran, Group Executive Director, Commercial & Investment.