Opinion

THE announcement of the death of Nigeria's former President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has brought a closure to months of shoddy politicking, barefaced lying, odious vocabulary of illness and dying imposed on Nigeria and Nigerians by persons around the man who turned his illness and his continued presence in office into their own vehicle of survival…

THE angry reaction of the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III to a recent documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) portraying the city of Lagos as a slum and the abode of human scavengers is understandable and patriotic. The Sultan expresses a position that is shared by many Nigerians who also consider the…

IN line with his responsibility, the national security adviser admonished not only the president this time but the entire Nigerian people who cared to hear about how the actions of the CBN is constituting real threats to national – economic, social, political -  security. As the man with the ultimate responsibility for coordinating strategic intelligence…

I wish, in this brief intervention, to present a summary reconstruction of the historical circumstances leading up to one of the worst massacres of the Second World War (1939-1945). I will also touch on the massacre itself, the reasons provided for the massacre, the reactions of the major world powers to the massacre, and the…

SIR: A nation, they say, gets the kind of leadership she deserves. That means a truthful nation gets truthful leaders, and a corrupt nation gets corrupt leaders. The leadership of a nation is a reflection of her character, because the nation usually elects leaders whose moral fibres are the same as the people. Many of…

SIR: The attention of the Federal Government of Nigeria has been drawn to a recent documentary by the BBC on Nigeria called “Welcome to Lagos.” Nigerians who have followed the documentary series on BBC 2 from and around the world have come to a conclusion that the documentary is nothing but a poor reflection of…

SIR: It is so sad and unfortunate that some members of the Adamawa State Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) are feeling threatened by the return of the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.I do not see why they cannot see that Atiku is an asset to the party; Atiku is one of the founding fathers of the…

SIR: Pat Utomi, professor of political economy and entrepreneurship in The Guardian of Sunday April 11, 2010, advised that the “challenge of the Finance Ministry is to rebuild credit economy.”  I am in total agreement with him but Nigeria needs a structural policy first. The term structural policy includes government policy aimed at changing the…

ONCE again, the collapse of a two-storey block of lock-up shops under construction at the Cairo Market in the Oshodi area of Lagos has brought to the fore the poor state of the building industry in the country, particularly, in Lagos. Something should be done to check the malaise. The number of such buildings that…

THE first few months of this year alone has witnessed all manner of protests by pressure groups over matters germane to the interests and survival of both the concerned groups and the nation in particular. The list includes but not limited to visibly distraught women from Plateau, at the National Assembly, with a strong petition…

SIR: Watching "Welcome to Lagos" on BBC2 at 9.00 pm on Thursaday, April 15 and April 22, 2010, I was perturbed by the way Lagos city was portrayed to the international community and was forced to query the report sheet of the Lagos State governor who is being extolled by a part of the community…

SIR: Yorubas are never known to be hard-hearted people. It is very unfortunate that respectable Yoruba leaders including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others boycotted the Edo bi-partisan rally of one-man-one-vote because of the presence of former and aspiring President Ibrahim Babangida. It is also unfortunate that President Babangida annulled the…