Opinion Corner

I want to qualify my study of last two Fridays on the Benin-Sapele-Warri Road/Highway by presenting some readers’ deep admiration for what I did. You may call it a debate which tries to recreate or to reinforce my undertaking. I am beginning with two inventors, two profound critics and artists who many persons, readers, of this column are familiar with: …

By Erasmus Ikhide It is tragic and literally eviscerating that an Acting Vice Chancellor of the State’s premier University – who lied to Governor Obaseki that he could run the University without subvention – started his job from the outset with the inauguration of dubious, deceptive, disparaging and primitive information management strategies in the 21st century to truncate the institution …

By Festus Adedayo The Atiku Abubakar voyage to Chicago in search of the true colour of Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has confirmed that Nigeria is in a more serious mess than she may think. When a people arrive at a straightforward road but assume it is an intersection where three footpaths meet, they provoke elders to see calamity ahead. …

By Bidemi Nelson It is no longer news that inflation has become globally pervasive. Nations continue to battle financial and price instability amidst various policy interventions. Macro and microeconomic prospects seem to dwindle in the wake of insecurity, the Covid-19 Pandemic, rising unemployment, geo-political fragmentations alongside trade restrictions, rising debt and climate change. More than ever before, the anticipated future …

By Douglas Ogbankwa Esq. The Nigerian Judiciary is still acting like we are in the 1960s in this Gen Z Age. Most of the components of the Judiciary have been lethargic in applying technology in churning out the endless possibilities in this regard. The Nigerian Judiciary must embrace technology in the following manners: 1. Embrace the E-filing concept. CAC and …

By Tony Akeni, Global Coordinator Nigeria Cannot Continue Like This (NCC-LIT) “It is not the law that is an ass; it is the law entrepreneur – the truth dissembling lawyer and corruption benighted judge – that are an ass.” ~ Tony Akeni Le Moin. The Head of National Publicity, Contact and Mobilization Team of Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council …

By Douglas Ogbankwa Esq A Forensic Audit of Your Office Staff or Domestic Staff May Shock You Who they talk to. Who do they text? Whose number do they have? You may have to do a background check before you employ sensitive staff. It is expensive, but cheaper in the long run. You do not want to employ your enemy! …

By Erasmus Ikhide President Tinubu, the Nigeria’s economic vandals and profiteers must perish the thought that they will continue to take Nigerians for a ride. In the quest for a New Nigeria, requiring intervention to jumpstart a battered business climate and place it on the pedestal of prosperity for all, a self-aggrandized mafia don like Aliko Dangote cannot be considered …

By Erasmus Ikhide As the tallies tumble in wrong places for Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s business empire, the dormant Nigeria State and its docile citizens who shut their eyes to his business profligacy, are surely learning to relive its horrors. Like the rise and fall of empires, the shylock businessman is now grappling with an end to his carnival-like business gaiety, …

By Erasmus Ikhide “ENERGY TIMES reliably gathered from top Presidency sources that the imported fuel would be discharged at Dangote barge and pumped into tanks and would sell at market dictated price to marketers while work progresses at the refinery,” according to part of the story. Though the NNPCL spokesperson said it was not the regulatory agency in charge of …