THE brazen decision of the Lamido Sanusi-led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sack the CEOs and Executive Directors of Oceanic Bank, Afribank, Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank and Finbank should be treated with the due suspicion that it deserves.

By Ogwazu  Nnamdi THE resolution by my community to create some social services like water borehole and pipe laying to distribute same, electricity development and secondary education building project without recourse to the government saw monetary contributions made. As typical of an Ibo society, defaulters in financial contributions were harassed/intimidated by the masquerades and the […]

By Tunde Oyasanya THE news of Boko Harram insurgence in Northern parts of the country filtered to me while I was away in Ado Ekiti from Abuja on official assignment. Meanwhile, I didn’t get the full gist of the carnage and I became curious. I could not wait till the next day to read from […]

By Allan Adepoju MORE than any other Nigerian first generation  state, Kwara State has demonstrated higher capacity for political theatrics. Time there was that two incumbent governors – Alhaji Adamu Atta in 1983 and the late retired Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal in 2003 – kissed the dust after fierce electoral battles with the septuagenarian […]

By Sunday Dare IT was with great effort that I concluded reading your(Dele Sobowale) last weekend’s disquisition on the re-branding of Dora Akunyili our Honourable Minister for Information and Communication, and principal exponent of the Re-branding Nigeria project. Your title reads, “Re-branding Akunyili and Ohakim”, but I will concentrate on the innuendoes and factual errors […]