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.