Opinion Corner

A government that is prudent with state resources and has financial accountability will never panic over not FINISHING WELL. It will not be shaken by a dwindling allocation or economy because its administration of resources can be adjusted or modified to suit present reality. The state government wants the people to bear the burden of FINISHING WELL and still wants …

Written by Kunkle Oderemi They were an inimitable pair; more like a Siamese twin: Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo. They shared everything in common even at the days they chose to bid the world a glorious farewell. Papa Awo’s love was Mama’s HID’s’ during thick or thin, they bonded like never before. In fact, the time of …

There are unrecovered amounts stolen by public office holders (who still walks freely), and starched in foreign accounts. These monies are boosting the foreign economy, while Nigeria’s economy is degenerating. Cases such as Farouk Lawal $3million subsidy scandal, Dimeji Bankole $1billion money laundry allegation, Stephen Oronsaye N1.2billion alleged fraud, Chief Olabode George N85billion fraud, among others running into billions of …

My experience in recent times concerning electricity supply, and this could be assumed to be the same experience for millions of Nigerians necessitated this piece. I bought a prepaid meter in 2008, and quite early in 2011 the meter stopped working. Consequently, I was made to pay fixed sum till a new billing system was introduced. In the first instance, …

The title of this essay is not original. The credit for its invention should go to one of the military governors during the Babangida or Abacha military era. He was at an event organised by his wife in the state and when it was time for him to make a speech, he began by saying something like this: “I want …

Those who are in possession of the foreign loot are less than 3% of Nigeria’s population of about 170million people. This mind-boggling amount is equivalent to Nigeria’s budget for the next seven years. One-fifth of this stolen wealth of N5trillion is the budget of the embattled North-Eastern region by the dreaded Boko Haram for the past 11 years. By Charles …

By Sandra Eguagie I read a curious  story on sexual harassment in the Vanguard newspaper, Friday August 14th, 2015 titled ”Sexual harassment in which the writer said that Nigeria badly needs effective laws against sexual harassment.” Before I add my voice to this epidemic that is eating deep into the Nigerian society, perhaps we should consider Chapter four of the …

By Gboyega Amoboye The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and President Muhammadu Buhari might have lived at different times but, like identical twins, possess many things in common-dynamism, pragmatism, integrity, self- discipline, vision and passion-to make Nigeria work. The impeccable past of these tested leaders has proved that the bane of the country’s slow development since independence has been lack of …

It all looks as the clash of desperate and vaunting ambitions. It is, and a lot more. Mr. Bukola Saraki, who emerged senate president from the pit of political debauchery and vicious backstabbing of his political party, evidently believed that Nigeria is a sort of unfinished family business. Son of the former senate majority leader in the second republic, the …

BY DELE MOMODU Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that in over 30 years of writing no President has ever reacted directly or positively to my constant admonitions, lamentations or commendations. Rather, most of the time, their aides, cronies and acolytes used to fire darts and barbs at us from every direction. We were called unprintable names that our parents did …