Category: OP-ED

The country was cheerful when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced it would be piloting its version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) on 1 October 2021. Surprisingly, the apex bank decided to skip the pilot scheme to launch the eNaira on 25 October 2021 fully. For the country that will host the Headquarters of the African Central… Read More

This analysis is done on the recording of the Knights and Kardinals Clubhouse (app) discussion titled, “Debate: Prof. Pat Utomi vs Tony Nnadi On The Way Forward For Nigeria” which took place on 3rd November 2021. Pat Utomi is a 65-year old Professor of political economy, and a management expert. He had been a onetime governorship candidate of the ruling… Read More

I PASSED in front of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA Staff Quarters on Sunday, October 31, 2021 on my way from the Nigeria Media Merit Award programme in Lokoja. As I did, my mind raced back to the issue of insecurity I had raised three days earlier during my keynote address to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Bauchi… Read More

Nigerians are no strangers to frequent traumatic losses. Gas explosions. Armory explosions. Oil tanker explosions. Oil rig explosions. House on fire. Factory/Wharehouse on fire. Market on fire. Church on fire. Mosque on fire. Shrine on fire. Forest on fire. Name it. Like all traumatic tragedies, the collapsed  Fourscore 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi Lagos, occurred without warning. Traumatic tragedies… Read More

The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is a gentleman whose political and evangelical integrity is not in any serious doubt. He is not a paragon; therefore, like every mortal, he has his strenghts and weaknesses. (Saints hardly venture into politics, especially the Nigerian murky one). His strenght lies more in his rich ecclesiastical background… Read More

The rains come  too late these days and leave before their time withering fields foretell the coming of furious famines Spring swallows summer summer stumbles into a sweltering fall while winter joins the fray with snowy deluge and blinding ice Unstoppable fires consume the skies from Kangaroo Island** to Paradise***                           Pause A melting Arctic chokes the oceans  which claim… Read More

National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, a few days back revealed an aspect of Nigerian university lecturers’ negotiation with the Federal Government that many of us probably didn’t know. He disclosed how the union rejected government’s plan to increase school fees of all university students to N1m during its last negotiations with lecturers. Speaking at… Read More

As the Keke Marwa reached Ile-Iwe junction, I counted 21 police vans and an armoured tank sorrounded by gun-fllashing officers restless and harrasing passersby. No regrets whatsoever. Nothing apologetic. “They murdered one of us and still keep beating us up, which kind thing be this?” Before one could query more, three fiery officers, cursing and spitting, pounced on one of… Read More

Perhaps it is not out of place to indicate from the outset that this writer is a proud son of Anambra State. The great land of my birth is unique in many ways imaginable. It is about the richest state east of the Niger. It is the only state among the 36 states of the federation where the ruling party… Read More