A foreign correspondent first called my attention to it. We were at the same party in Lagos. He leaned forward and whispered in my ear, in a tone that suggested conspiracy and/or gossip, asking if I had heard about the missing $49.8 bn at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). There was a glint in his eye. A knowing look and a half smile that said: “after all this is Nigeria and so we love to give headline coverage to the negative – theft, corruption, sleaze etc.” I pointed at the glass in his hand and asked him if he had been drinking a little too much.

The K-LEG Act informed the rest of Nigeria and the world that in Rivers State the Nigerian democratic project has been privatized, solely owned by tyrant Obasanjo and Co.

DOUBTING Thomases is the plural of a doubting Thomas. It refers to an incredulous or habitually doubtful person who is sceptical and refuses to believe something without proof.

The Nigerian nation (1960-1966) was wallowing in the labyrinths and crypts of unthinkable corruption, indecent opulence, ludicrous antics, ethno bigotry, Political farrago and social gallimaufry…

THE 2015 elections are here. It is time for politicians to receive rewards for their stewardship. It has been a year of bruising campaigns, all parties have fought well. No matter the outcome of the elections, one thing is sure, the country’s polity will never be the same again. No more will our politicians take the people for a ride, our democracy is deeply enriched.

IF Hon. James Manager wins in the forthcoming general elections to represent the people of Delta South Senatorial district in the ‘Green chamber’, equity, justice and fairness would have lost their true meaning to the aggrieved Itsekiris and Isokos of the same senatorial district. Amidst deafened protest in 2013 against Manager’s second term in the place of an Itsekiri candidate whose turn it was to represent the district at the senate, Manager was imposed on the people.

There appears to be better days ahead for young entrepreneurs in Nigeria as the Microsoft Cloud Start-Up academy also known as the Cloudpreneur Project will train 100 Nigerian start-ups and provide 20 of them with mentorship to manage and sustain their Cloud-based businesses.

To meet the objectives of approximating to international best practices, the expectation of stakeholders is that, by the time NDIC participates in the 8th Regional Workshop of IADI on “Assessment of Compliance with the Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems” holding in Pristina, Kosovo, next May, the National Assembly would have passed the proposed amendments so the Nigeria will hold her head high for her implementation of a credible Deposit Insurance Scheme, DIS.

The much talked about 2015 Elections are only a few days away. The frenzy is unprecedented. The stakes are obviously high this time around, so no one is actually  surprised. One thing we all agree on is the need for a free, fair and credible exercise. A credible exercise would not only serve as a […]

For centuries we have been obsessed with leaders and with identifying the characteristics required for effective leadership. A core issue for some time has been, whether or not leadership should focus on personality or behaviour. This in turn has implications in terms of strategies for developing leadership capabilities.

THERE are so many novelties in the present political dispensation in the country. First, this is the first time since independence that elections, especially at the federal level will be a keen contest between the ruling party and the main opposition.

For the last 15 years, Nigeria and other African countries have been struggling to answer the increasing demand for skilled healthcare professionals, and the deficit looks set to continue for the foreseeable future.

THE latest outburst by General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), if anything, has cemented the well founded concern that the former military strongman is too unstable to be president of Nigeria. Buhari let go his emotion, which was a doomsday wish for the nation, as is his nature, during a rally of the APC in Kaduna last week.

IN eight days time, we will vote to decide who leads us for the next four years, and that decision may choose which way we head to as a nation; whether we will continue to grow, or slip into confusion that may consume the nation. Thank God, for the Shift in date for who knows where we would have been by now, with our level of unpreparedness, in spite of the deception by the elections umpire!

Couple of days ago, one of the national newspapers published what it headlined: S’South Got Lion’s Share Of PTF Projects Under Buhari, struggling as it were to give an account of the stewardship of former head of state and Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, retired General Muhammadu Buhari in his four years as Chairman of the defunct Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund.