OPINION

Is it not shameful that Nigeria will begin importation of crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela? And is it not self indictment that Mele Kyari, chief operating officer of an NNPCL which reaps from the sweat of the IOCs, shamelessly took…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE It is a glorious thing to have a tested leader as the president of a country. It is also a blessing when the president means what he says and when what he says is not just believable but also…

The Nigerian Gas Company, NGC constitutes a bottleneck that must be quickly scrapped to salvage the gas industry in Nigeria. Whereas there are abundance of natural gas deposits in Nigeria to generate well over 200,000 megawatts…

By Stephen A. Newton, Managing Director at Aleph, Africa It’s become increasingly  impossible to deny that we live in an increasingly global world. Today, nearly 65% of world -wide consumers are connected to the internet.…

written by Festus Adedayo With my knowledge of the geography and contours of state government operations, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State may have last week fallen victim of one of three sets of advisers that a political…

Written By Festus Adedayo National Security Adviser, (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, always wears a permanent visor of one who needs to be pitied. Last Monday, however, he advertised far more pity with his pithy speech. The venue was the…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE If we go back to the history of Nigeria, the truth is: dear fatherland has learnt nothing. In the days of Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola, this was how they started inventing stuff that had never…

Written by Festus Adedayo When a child pours libation and gives iba (respect) to the shade of the farm, our elders say he will till the land till evening in comfort. I owe the inspiration to write this piece to one of the few…

Africa and Nigeria don't need beggarly handouts from Western countries/US to survive. For me, the West/US feed on the non-advanced countries of Africa right from the onset. They forcefully took away black Africans to build…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE When our forefathers came up with the wise saying that ‘the earnest wish of potters is for earth to be clay', it was not only worthy of commendation but also no mean achievement. The beauty of the…