Making better money decisions in 2027 (1)
This year is almost gone. By the time you read this article, there will be 51 days to the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027.
Among other things, a new year, just like a new day, offers new opportunities to achieve something new and make progress.
Dousing the Boko Haram menace
President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, this year. By now, one expects that he should have settled down to the serious business of governance. But, rather, the man is still grappling with only just one problem- the challenges of security. Especially that arising from the Boko Haram crisis.
Edo people are not leading (2)
YET cliché purists would agree that Oshiomhole’s “let the people lead” is one formula that is capable of firing in the citizenry the patriotic commitment to government and governance.
Military Mentality in Civilian Democracy, Cost of Monthly Environmental Sanitation Day
I was in Abuja on the last Saturday of June 2011 and found that I could not leave my home or attend to any business activities until after 10.00am. It was environmental sanitation day. I remembered with angst, the military brutality that attended the introduction of environmental sanitation in Nigeria.
Sylvester Monye: Square peg in square hole
President Goodluck Jonathan appointed two new Special Advisers last week. They are Professor Sylvester Monye, the Special Adviser on Monitoring and Evaluation and Dr. Nwanze Okidegbe, the Chief Economic Adviser. During their swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Villa, the President made a telling statement.
Islamic Banking: Matters Arising
Indeed, avoiding the discussion of the real issues this subject raises, by accusing Nigeria’s Christian leaders of Islamaphobia, reduces the debate to a question of religion, which is regrettable and a diversion.
