OPINION

  By Dr Christopher Yakubu Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed the reins of leadership in May 2015, the army has carried out quite some operations as it continues to protect the nation’s territorial integrity. Operation Lafiya Dole (North East Nigeria) Operation Lafiya Dole is the army’s code name for the...

  By Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey I was really afraid when President Buhari was ill and away for that long. I worried that if anything terminal happened to him, Nigeria would be in for it, for already conspiracy theories were rife that he was poisoned and there were rumours of...

PenCom has been on sabbatical while the elder state-men which it was created to cater for are in pains, despite the facts that The Pencom Acts of 2004 as amended in "The Pencom Acts of 2014" has taken cares of some of the shortcomings in the then Pension Acts of...

  By Kemi Adeosun Descriptions of Nigeria’s economy often include such phrases as ‘Africa’s largest oil producer’ and ‘the oil rich African nation’ but oil economies are typically characterised by low population densities and abundant oil resources. Saudi Arabia with 10 million barrels of oil per day and 30 million...

By Kemi Adeosun Since the middle of 2014, when the price of crude oil fell dramatically, Nigeria’s finances became challenged. This is not hard to explain: we’ve historically depended on crude oil for as much as 70 per cent of government revenues, and 90 per cent of foreign exchange earnings....

Tony Olutomiwa Ethics scholars on leadership have since concluded that the most important attribute of leadership is not power, after all, but character. According to this school of thought, every leader is only as safe and secure as his character. Indeed, character matters essentially because it preserves a leader’s cause...

By Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Catholic Bishop of Umuahia 1. Our country is passing through turbulent times. This seems to be as a result of the growing culture of impunity, greed and graft among the political elite, as well as the injustice and inequity in political appointments and the...

By Femi Fani-Kayode On August 3rd 1857, in what can only be described as one of the most profound, moving, passionate and inspiring speeches in human history, Frederick Douglas, the former black slave and the great freedom fighter and philosopher said, inter alia, the following: "Let me give you a...

Reading through the presidential broadcast, however, one cannot but express a sense of utter disappointment. This is a president who virtually sneaked out of Nigeria, who breached his own self-declaration of transparency, by keeping Nigerians in the dark for over 100 days, and in that process grinding the wheel of...

By Emmanuel Bello In a way, late Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai was trying to teach Taraba people and Nigerians lessons in leadership, conduct and power relations. Did we learn? Did we even know the lessons he taught? For it is never enough to mourn such a soul and forget what...