•Prof Nnimmo Bassey For some years we have seen vested interests grabbing the COP. This started through heavy sponsorship by fossil fuels companies, and metamorphosed into taking the driving seat, presiding over the COP a defiant way of showcasing climate denial. With COP29 in Azerbaijan it will make three COPs in a row to be […]
Naturally, Nigerians ought to be basking in the euphoria of achieving a milestone in their current democratic journey which has spanned 24 years and still counting. This sense of joy is further accentuated by the fact that, for the first time, the country has ensured that the principles of democratic order are being firmly planted […]
Dear Hon Minister, First, a disclosure. You may not know me but we have met on two occasions in the house of our mutual respected Oga, first as a Minister of State and second as a Governor, but l doubt if you can recognize me now. I’m one of your admirers and critic. As a […]
1. Introduction Recent developments in the foreign exchange market in particular, and the overall economy in general, have prompted my writing this article on how to reduce the volatility in the value of the Naira. Exchange rate fluctuations rather than its level, cause more uncertainty in the market place. If exchange rate is stable, business...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants […]
•Prof. Omogbai I am extremely delighted that a day has come for me to tell in a few words, the contributions of Prof. Omogbai to my academic growth. It was in my first undergraduate lecture in Pharmacology in 1988, that my class was told of a certain young and superbly intelligent lecturer who was away […]
It has become evident that members of the three arms of government are far more concerned about their personal welfare than about the precarious state of the economy. In a nation suffering from galloping inflation, massive unemployment and a decline in the value of its currency, the Legislature and Judiciary are conspiring with the Executive [...
•Tinubu “Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, who must be free must strike the first blow?” – Lord Byron, 1788-1824. Nigerians, and indeed Africans, alive today, are not different in their orientation from our predecessors who meekly submitted to the brutality and humanitarian catastrophe of slavery. Most of us are still imbued with slave-mental...
A former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed the docility of Nigerians for the inability of the country to get the right form of leadership. Amaechi was speaking at the 2023 TheNiche Annual Lecture themed “Why We Stride and Slip: Leadership, Nationalism, and the Nigerian Condition,” held on Thursday in Lagos where he was [&h...
•CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, the new Governor of CBN, who was recently, together with his four Deputies, confirmed by the Senate, wrote an article titled ‘Preliminary Assessment of Challenges facing the CBN.’ In the article, he laid his vision of the CBN, what he intends to do and how to go about […]
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