MY experience in recent times concerning electricity supply, and this could be assumed to be the same experience for millions of Nigerians necessitates this piece. I bought a prepaid meter in 2008, and quite early in 2011 the meter stopped working. Consequently, I was made to pay fixed sum till a new billing system was introduced.

Mr YINKA ODUMAKIN, author of the piece, “Finishing well: The Osoba example”, is a “change fiend”. At one point he belonged to the Afenifere camp. Later he switched allegiance to the Afenifere Renewal Group, which was and is not in good terms with the parent Yoruba socio-cultural group. Today, he is back in the old Afenifere.

AS President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration begins to take shape, definitely one vital sector that will demand and indeed attract their immediate attention is the automotive sector.

DEAR SIR, I want to express my appreciation for the way you have been running the  affairs of our nation since you assumed office as our President, and Commander-  in-Chief of Nigeria Armed Forces. At the same time, I want to use this opportunity  to thank God for the successful conduct of the election that […]

Oh my Deinde – Even in death your innermost wishes are being thwarted by human frailties and manipulations – Sun re e You came, you saw and you conquered! You set the bar for corporate Nigeria, our traditional institutions and wore the badge of Nigeria like a shield of Honour. You were a Giant as […]

With current challenges in the global economy, new and innovative strategies are emerging in the bid to stimulate and sustain growth in national economies.

By Femi Fani-Kayode Allen Christopher Bertram Bathurst, the 9th Earl of Bathurst is a British peer whose other title is Lord Apsley. He and I were colleagues at Harrow School, the best private school in the United Kingdom, 30 years ago. In 1985 he said the following: ‘’Nigeria is a toilet of a country where […]

IT has been repeated in recent times that the problem with President Muhammadu Buhari appointing his supposed sister or sister-in-law, Mrs. Amina Zakari, to head the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has nothing to do with her qualifications but rather the moral burden of having his sister or sister in-law presiding over elections in which […]

THE word truth has been subjected to severe battering by different people over time and ages. Each see it from his own perspective but this is not supposed to be so because truth is as it were is not subjected to any form of interpretations or colouring other than what it is. It is seen by everyone in the same manner, it is constant.

PARTY is supreme! Party is supreme!! Party is supreme!!!” chanted the Loyalists (as the group of pro-All Progressives Congress, APC, leadership in the House of Representatives branded themselves) in a deafening frenzy on the day they turned the House chambers into a boxing ring last June to disrupt possible announcement of the Principal Officers of the APC (Majority Party) by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.

NIGERIA as the saying goes is a mere geographical expression. The task to turn that expression into a Nation has been seemingly lost and appears totally unrealisable. The last general elections proved this completely. Political parties were proven to be nothing better than paper tigers. When the shove came to shove, States that have supported a particular political party for 16 years dumped the party on the quick sand of tribal loyalty by as much as 97%. That to me was the end of party politics in Nigeria and the triumph of tribal loyalty.

Polemicist and dialectical logicians tend to agree that sanctimonious rantings, verbal acrobatics, sentimental effusions constitute negative building blocks in the march to nationhood and peace. Hence, the essayist and orator Cicero (106-43 B.C.) posited that “The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices”. This is substantiated by the English playwright William Shakespeare that “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser”.

Waiting on the Lord for children didn’t just start. The Holy Bible has stories of women who were faced with the challenge .Almost all the women who had it broke through.

A promise is a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen. In the build up to any election, focus is centered on the promises of the candidates seeking offices. Politics everywhere in the world operates within this premise. While many politicians dangle promises without intention to fulfil them after assumption of office, few among them make promises which served as covenant with the people for assessment when the need arises. To fulfil these commitments after inauguration, few politicians engage the people to build a road-map for actualization.

I’m cock-sure John F. Kennedy and former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon were not concerned about winning a political battle or outsmarting one another in Sept. 26, 1960 when the duo participated in the first televised presidential debate in the United States