By Dele Sobowale “Such men fight the campaigns of the future, while all the world around them sleep. But, when the time comes, though themselves be gone, the roads they planned are and straight for th ...

By Ladipo Adamolekun “The 1999 Constitution… is neither the product of plebiscite, referendum, nor a national conference. It was bequeathed to us in 1999 by the departing military and promulgated into ...

By Olu Fasan TODAY, Nigeria is 60 years old as an independent state. Congratulations are in order! But truth be told, there is little to celebrate! Over the past 60 years, Nigeria has had a tortured h ...

By Segun Adeniyi 1960 was deemed ‘The Year of Africa’ because 17 countries on the continent secured their independence that year. Nigeria was among them. Outside Africa, the only other country to gain ...

By Kristalina Georgieva The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed debt levels to new heights. Compared to end-2019, average 2021 debt ratios are projected to rise by 20 percent of GDP in advanced economies, 10 ...

By BARRIE DAVIES There is no place for the Dialectical Method in football. The rabidly tribal football fanatic will, however, engage lustily in argument and lose many hours in vociferous debate. But s ...

By Ruth Olurounbi Nigeria unexpectedly cut its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 100 basis points from 12.50% to 11.50% in an attempt to boost the economy by providing cheaper credit. Analysts, who see th ...

BY KAYODE KOMOLAFE There is hardly any country in which nation-building is a finished business. To build a nation its people under a leadership with a sense of historic mission must continuously stri ...

By ISSA AREMU The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) marked 60 years of formation on Monday 14th of September. For the “ideologically” conscious observers of global oil and gas indus ...

By Fadi Jawdat Hindi Everybody has heard some version of the adage ‘don’t let money stand in the way of your dreams.’ You’ll find thousands of blogs and articles, tips and advice, and ‘do’s and don’ts ...

By Peter Esele We have proved over and over again that we are a nation that does not plan for tomorrow. Since 1990, the Nigeria economy has expanded whilst the population has grown, but it is now clea ...

By David Whitehouse A plan by young entrepreneurs in Kenya to build a golf course using Blockchain and a stable coin backed by real currency highlights the regulatory challenges facing African governm ...

By Eze Onyekpere   Nigeria is going to be 60 years as an independent nation on October 1, 2020. That is merely three days from today. The celebration of independent nationhood will be low-keyed and th ...

By  REUBEN ABATI I was very skeptical when the current leadership of Organized Labour in Nigeria objected to the decision of the Federal Government to withdraw fuel subsidy and hand over the pump pric ...

By Lekan Sote   Hans J. Morgenthau, international relations scholar, thinks that the national character of the people of a nation are “certain qualities of intellect and character (that) occur more fr ...

By Megan McDonald In the US and other developed economies, capital markets are a hive of activity as companies and governments take advantage of low interest rates and stimulus programmes to raise fun ...

By Sola Lawson Nigeria’s chronic power shortages have been a defining feature of the country’s path to sustainable economic development. As an oil-producing net importer of petroleum products, this ma ...

By Rose Mwebaza Africa’s digital revolution is gathering strength, buoyed by the continent’s success as the world’s pioneer in mobile money. In 2019, African technology start-ups, especially in Fintec ...

By Philippe Le Houérou Before Africa can reach the uplands of digitization -- the robotics and the AI -- it must first do the hard slog of reforming telecoms markets and opening up to competition, arg ...

By Chido Nwakanma The voltage of anger in the land can burn some installations. The most threatened currently is the continued existence of the power distribution companies otherwise addressed with th ...

By Marius Burger With a region as large and as vast as Africa, it is difficult to imagine a fully connected continent where every individual across all demographics and every business across all secto ...

BY Abdul Samad RABIU I start by congratulating African leaders on the opening of the AfCFTA secretariat last month. I believe the secretariat will further help to facilitate the prompt actualization o ...

By FAROOQ KPEROGI Nigeria will be 60 years old as a formally independent country on Thursday, but the divisibility and tiresomely endless feuding that have emerged as some of its defining features sin ...

By Joseph Ushigiale There is a storm brewing over the decision of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to build a rail line linking Kano, Dutse, Daura in Nigeria to Maradi in neighbouring Niger ...

BY ENIOLA BELLO Bola Tinubu, national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), for some strange and unnecessary reason, made himself an issue in the just concluded Edo State governorship election. F ...

President Muhammadu Buhari receives  Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq,  Kwara State Governor, during a visit to the State House AbujaAbuja. PHOTO; BAYO OMOBORIOWO. SEPT 22 2020 Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulra ...

L-R; Col Hameed Ali Rtd, Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs  chats with the Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment;, Mt. Olukayode Pitan, MD/CEO of Bank of Industry;,  Kab ...

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State (2nd right); Mrs. Cecilia Bolaji Dada, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (right); Mojisolaoluwa Alli-Macalay, Chairman, House C ...

By Ayo Olukotun Last Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that Mr. Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, had emerged winner of th ...

By Omer Ozkizilcik The French President has found himself out of his depth and Germany has once again shown that it has the upper hand in guiding European Union policy. Since Brexit, the European Unio ...

By Morgan Morris Based on official figures – which may be somewhat under reported – COVID-19 has not been as devastating in South Africa as initially feared. Back in March and April this year case num ...

By Olatunji Dare There was a time in recent memory when the United States was the ultimate, the final arbiter on the worth of elections held in countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Central Europe ...

 Jide Osuntokun The recent announcement by the managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that contracts have again been awarded for rehabilitation and comprehensive repa ...

By Tony Marinho COVID-19 records deaths approaching 970,000, infections 32,000,000, with around 58,000 recognised cases and 1,200 deaths in Nigeria. Wow the world predicted an Edo blood bath. The voti ...

BY DAN AKPOVWA This Saturday, September 26th, 2020, the curtain will finally come down on the life of the Honourable Justice Adolphus Godwin Karibi-Whyte, eminent Nigerian Jurist, former Judge at the ...

By Lukman Oladokun  “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” —Buckminster Fuller. WE live in a time of ...

BY REUBEN ABATI The pundits who had predicted the outcome and the nature of the Gubernatorial election in Edo State got it all wrong. The Edo 2020 election may well prove to be a turning point in the ...

By Tayo Oke Way back in June of this year, as the plot to thwart the All Progressives Congress Governor Godwin Obaseki’s quest for a second term in office thickened, this column sounded a warning to h ...

By Akeem Lasisi   As the All Progressives Congress may by now be counting its losses in the Saturday’s Edo State governorship election, we, the ‘grammar party’, too have a few losses to enumerate. As ...

Dear President Buhari,  I am not sure whether this letter would reach you. Anyway, in the event it reaches you, know that I am conveying the well-wishes of many farmers in respect of your administrati ...

By Victor Ifijeh These are trying times for print journalists the world over. Our beloved industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Publications are gasping for breath. The future looks uncertain. ...

It is time we move beyond our obsession with revolutionary aesthetics and engage with its politics argues Bryan Knight Although often ignored ideologically, the iconography of Black Power continues to ...

By Moleletsi Mbeki The history of South Africa’s conquest by the Dutch and British, and the reaction of its native peoples to their conquest, is the only context in which SA’s issues of race and race ...

BY ALEX OTTI “In the US, after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany, after the war, there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, hous ...

BY BONIFACE OYE-ANENIRAN On the 12th of April 2020, the Council of the University of Lagos took a very bold step. It removed the Vice-Chancellor of the University for several reasons. Some of the alle ...

By  Chidi Amuta Nigeria is currently like a small hamlet invaded by a thousand witches, each bearing a sack full of assorted plagues and poxes. The trouble is in not knowing which affliction ails ...

By  FAROOQ KPEROGI Responsible and morally sensitive governments all over the world toil day and night to invent novel ways to make life a little better for their citizens and to assuage the inev ...

By Lasisi Olagunju Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a few days ago, declared that Nigeria was becoming a failed state. He said the nation’s hitherto healing fault lines had been reopened by Buhari’ ...

By Eze Onyekpere   It is no longer news that Nigeria is drifting like a rudderless ship in a stormy ocean. The country lacks leadership in all spheres of life and across all sectors. Those we ele ...

By Lekan Sote   A good idea that is coming out as an imposed federal law, instead of an agreement between the Federal Government and the federating units, is the Water Resources Bill that has ent ...

BY ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI The events in Mali, one of our neighbours in the West African sub-region should be of great concern to all Nigerians. In that country, democracy suffered a huge setback when ...

By Bashorun J.K. Randle In commemoration of the first one hundred days of the appointment of Professor (Ambassador) Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Commander-I ...

By OKEY  IKECHUKWU A recent lengthy submission from the elder statesman, Ahmed Joda, rested on a telling conclusion: Northern Nigeria is not developing its human capital. It also does not have th ...

BY GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about great changes globally, leaving varying effects in different parts of our world. From health, economies to education, politics and sp ...

By Azuka Onwuka There is a dangerous brand of Christianity that is rising in Nigeria. It is one in which pastors have become deities that are all-knowing, infallible and untouchable. Whatever they say ...

By Wole Soyinka I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. ...

By REUBEN ABATI It is now more than six months since Nigeria reported its index case of Corona Virus. On March 23, the country closed its airports to all international flights and commercial operation ...

By FEMI ADESINA Femi Adesina To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include ...

By Femi Falana Sometime in 2017, the Buhari administration forwarded the National Water Resource Bill to both chambers of the National Assembly with a request that it be passed into law. The bill whic ...

By Femi Adesina  “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” posits management thinker, Peter Drucker. And that was one of the reasons that got the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to embar ...

By Ahmed Joda I read on one of the social media platforms an open letter to Malam Adamu Adamu, the Honorable Minister of Education by our Ambassador in Mexico, to which I think I should make a contrib ...

BY KAYODE KOMOLAFE   Vice President Yemi Osinbajo urged the global community at the weekend to avoid a scenario in which only the “highest bidder” would have access to the coronavirus vaccin ...

By Azuka Onwuka These days, whenever one reads articles written by Nigerians about Nigeria or listens to analyses on TV and radio, one feels the unmistakeable helplessness, hopelessness and despondenc ...

By Kelechi Deca Igbo people say that a man who was bitten by a snake gets unnerved by the sight of a lizard’s head. This proverb clearly captures the level of distrust within the Nigerian polity such ...

By Dr Obadia Mailafia The International Labour Organisation warns that, globally, job losses could reach as high as 50% of the workforce. Agriculture, manufacturing and the retail industry have also r ...

Security systems are only as successful as the people who sit behind them In May 2020, the personal records of more than 24 million South Africans and nearly 794,000 companies were handed over to some ...

By Obadiah Mailafia   The history of our planet has been a titanic struggle between viruses and Homo Sapiens. This has been so since the first settled civilisations appeared around Mesopotam ...

By Osinachi Ezema ONE of the very features of democracy is the freedom to debate and, if you may, hold opinions. Debates are integral parts of the course to national development. At least it allows fo ...

By Yomi Akinola ANY question put by a journalist to the speaker at a press conference that does not upset the speaker or disrupt their emotions cannot elicit quality news items from them. However, the ...

By Ochereome Nnanna The (yet to be completed) Dr. Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, AIIAE, is reopened for business. The story of this development is peculiar. As one who has followed it every ...

By Tony Nwankwo As the governorship race for Anambra State gathers momentum, many are just realising what an epic battle it promises to be. “An Ijele masquerade is about to be crowned,” said a local m ...

By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA and Ghana, the two neo-colonial Anglophone ‘neigbours’ who are also two of the three largest economies in the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, are at each oth ...

The Verdict By Olusegun Adeniyi In a badly divided polity, it is no surprise that a number of stakeholders have expressed opposition to the recently re-introduced National Water Resources bill in the ...

By Chidiebere Nwobodo “An Igbo man should not be allowed to be president of Nigeria. I have a feeling that Biafra will be established if that happens. They will leave us oo and Nigeria will crumble if ...

By Godknows Igali One of Nigeria’s most outstanding military-diplomats, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, turns 80 years today, 1st September 2020. Born in the “Garden City” of Port-Harcourt, this urb ...

By Amanze Obi THE other day, my friend and colleague, Steve Osuji, displayed unusual anger. He was mad at Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Governor of Sokoto State, for declaring interest in the presidency ...

By Geoffrey Okamoto The American economist Frank Knight theorized about the difference between risk and uncertainty in his classic book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Risk is “a quantity susceptible of ...

By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari last Tuesday peered into the last three years of his administration and released a volley of nine promises to be fulfilled. He must have looked back at the p ...

By Kole Omotoso When Donald Trump was awarded the presidency of the United States of America in 2016, many optimistic humans said that it was only four years and the idiot will be voted out of the pre ...

By Olu Verheijen COVID-19 has exacerbated the fragility of West African countries where population growth continues to outpace economic growth, relegating millions to extreme poverty. Further, pandemi ...

THROUGHOUT his public career, Nasir el-Rufai has sallied about as if a medieval pasha whose word was edict. He sought to forge a   relationship with the public that was also a regressive throwback to ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I’ve always had a sneaky suspicion that judgments on election petitions in Nigeria are influenced by political pressures from the presidency, but a conscientious judge who ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. The rescission of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as a consequence of sustained s ...

From punch cards that logged workers’ hours in early factories to the basic computers that powered the space race, it’s evident that we’ve been living in a data-driven world for more than a century. B ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. News of corruption used to outrage our moral susceptibilities. Now they excite our faculty of humor. In Nigeria’s increasingly dreary and despairing political and economic ...

By GERRIT SMIT  The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of e-commerce in a way no company could have imagined. In fact, in many instances, it has brought three- to five-year sales proj ...

By Olusegun Aganga CON. The composition of our total output seems to suggest a diversified and well-balanced economy. The size of our economy in 2019 was N146 Trillion (about US$448 billion). Oil and ...

I HAVE in recent days thought more about homo-sapiens, and revalidated my firm position that irrespective of location, colour, status, gender, creed or greed, humans are one. It gladdened my heart tha ...

Anne O. Krueger argues that areas that eased their initial COVID-19 lockdowns and now have surging infection rates are a testament to all that has gone wrong in the pandemic. The lesson from day one s ...

Owei Lakemfa On the shark World Trade Organisation (WTO), while it is true Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian and an African, of what comfort is it to the forest that the handle of the sharp axe cutting down ...

The title of this piece is not a curse but a metaphorical expression of my exasperation with the telecommunications industry, whose fortunes in terms of service delivery to the customers have plummete ...

By Dr. Ahmad A. Gumi  It is a certainty that the nation is facing an unprecedented economic crisis. The Government has ordered that all capital projects can only be cashed half from the current budget ...

The 21st century is set to be one of massive disruptions that pose serious threats to society Ann Florini and Sunil Sharma The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic are forcing an overdue reckoning about ...

Even if one or more vaccines emerge that promise to make people less susceptible to COVID-19, the public-health problem will not be eliminated. But policymakers can avert some foreseeable problems by ...

By Jim Anderson The World Bank’s commitment to helping countries control corruption dates to 1996 when then President James Wolfensohn made his “cancer of corruption” speech. It was the first time the ...

By Moses E. Ochonu Last week, Farooq Kperogi’s Saturday Tribune column compellingly debunked Ambassador John Campbell’s coy defense of President Buhari and his inner circle against ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi It has now become customary for Nigerians in the diaspora who leave their exilic locations to take government jobs at home to emotionally blackmail the nation into seeing them as ...

The parlous story of African economic and social development since independence best expressed in the failure to achieve the autonomous capacity for self-actuated development and in particular to crea ...

To refresh our memories, the maiden Biafran struggle (1967 – 1970), originated from a bitter historical experience; namely the orchestrated massacre of the Igbos (both military personnel and ...

“We have to defeat pessimism and embrace our common economic future with optimism in order to bring about the change that we desire” As widely acknowledged, the ‘old normal’ of high oil price ...

By Owei Lakemfa Elder Statesman, Chief Bisi Akande was Executive Governor of Osun State for four years from 1999 during which he led his colleagues who were unwilling to pay workers the National Minim ...

By Kelechi Deca-Anyanwu Six months to a year ago, many central banks had the luxury of more windows to maneuver in. Today, most of them, from the Chairman of Federal Reserve Board to the Governor of P ...

By Ferdinand Ekeoma After reading numerous sponsored articles and reports from hatchet men sponsored by the PDP and Abia State Government, who are parading them selves as journalists and legal critics ...

The days ahead will definitely not be very palatable for Professor Dibu Ojerinde. His powers, and those of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, will be put to test. Many protesting parents an ...

Sometimes, democracy does not make sense. The legendary Abraham Lincoln once painted a ludicrous but true picture of democracy as follows: “Demo —cracy is like someone who killed his father and mother ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, through the Honourable Minister of Finance a ...

It’s no longer news that the Nigerian economy has been reeling under the pain of sliding oil prices since the last quarter of last year. What is news, however, is that this dangerous slide has continu ...