The book tour of Professor Okey Ndibe across six Nigerian cities has indeed been very engrossing – an irresistible force, more like. The personable Ndibe has on offer his second novel Foreign Gods, Inc., and his memoir Never Look an American in the Eye which bears the intriguing subtitle “Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts and the Making of a Nigerian American”.

Before the implementation of the Treasury Single Account policy (TSA) of the Federal Government in 2015, it was common practice for some commercial banks to use government funds in their coffers to purchase government debt instruments. By ‘ploughing back’ these funds into the short end of the government debt market, these banks made ‘quick profit’ at the expense of government.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government will not be stampeded into abandoning its ongoing efforts to amend the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to ensure the production in Nigeria of ‘Nigerian content or local content’ programmes.

If I had any doubt that it is end game for Boko Haram madman, Abubakar Shekau, it has disappeared with the vow of a 37-year-old Islamic cleric, Ali Ahmad to trek the whole 844 kilometers from Maiduguri to Abuja. Recent history teaches us that people make such declarations when they sense a definite outcome. Chief […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is not just a leader, but a politician whose leadership is translucently exemplary.  He assumed leadership of Nigeria at a time the country had been mindlessly raped by rapacious leaders and dumped to lick its wounds. President Buhari came with the assurance of hope on the premise of change, what most Nigerians […]