TODAY, we are faced with a precarious situation where paucity of dollar and other hard currencies has led to a spiral fall of the naira. The reason is not farfetched, especially as oil prices fell from a high of about $115 to as low as $28. Yet, it is commendable that the President Muhammadu Buhari […]

The assumption that Nigeria is divided between those who “want” devaluation and those who oppose it is a false appearance. Any rational Nigerian, especially middle class individuals, who can be assumed to be rationally self-interested “want” a strong currency so that they can maintain real purchasing power and lifestyles in a globalized consumerist economy.

ISHAQ Modibbo Kawu’s latest diatribe against the government and political leadership of Kwara State, published in the Vanguard of Thursday, February 18th, 2016 was, as usual, marked by innuendo, falsehood and disinformation.

THE race towards who succeeds Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State on November 12, this year has already begun; while the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to come out with its guidelines for the election, people in the state and, indeed, political watchers already know those who are in the race for the tickets of the two leading parties: the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party in the state and at the federal level and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition party.

WHEN the Comrade Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, recently applied the big stick once against the Edo State Traffic Management Authority, EDSTMA, knocking them off their usual nefarious and very much hated business, the question that came to my mind was simply:‘ who is fooling who?