Opinion

General Olusegun Obasanjo in his first stint saw the need to tighten the spending of government. To tackle this, he came up with austerity measures. And in a bid to further protect the economy, his junta made the importation...

Reliance on commodities has to stop, says report Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an $18 billion company....

As a State of hundreds of nationalities with so many fault lines and huge diversification challenges, we have not fared badly in our 100 years of common existence. Our ability to weather the storm and remain a united entity...

SPEAKER, DTHA, RT HON VICTOR ONYEKACHI OCHEI   In my over five decades on mother earth, I have never comprehended the import of the cliché ‘’never judge a book by its cover” until by divine providence, I met Rt Hon Victor...

Last year on June 3rd 2012 there was a plane crash in Nigeria in which over 163 people were killed. The plane was owned by Dana Air. The day before that on June 2nd 2012 a Nigerian cargo plane...

The "Roadmap for Childhood Tuberculosis: Towards Zero Deaths" - the first ever plan which specifically addresses TB in children and outlines the path towards zero deaths from childhood TB - was jointly launched on 1st October 2013, in Washington...

Salisu nestles under a baobab tree which is at the centre of Kagua village, Bize in Borno state, Nigeria. It is a sunless afternoon. The humming wind cruises right about him, and dry leaves touchdown as if betokening the...

Permit me to begin this contribution by quoting a portion of an essay that I wrote on 26 September 2011 which was titled ''On Goodluck Jonathan, David and Goliath''. The portion reads as follows. ''A few days ago from the...

It amazes me why people do not always like to come to equity with clean hands; otherwise, the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), which courted controversy from the manner it was secretly registered as a political party behind the back...

A responsible government gives incentives to potential manufacturers to encourage them to venture into valuable and competitive production. Not Nigeria. In Nigeria the government compresses the masses and phases out the middle class to entice the cabal and potential...