OPINION
Sep. 12 | Femi Fani-Kayode, Special Assistant (Public Affairs) To President Obasanjo 2003-2006. Photo Source: Femi Fani Kayode
By Femi Fani-Kayode
The fever that is raging in Nigeria today is “wikileaks”. Yet as entertaining as these secret communications...
Sep. 5 | An unidentified security man checks a car with a scanner at Wuse Market, the principal market in Abuja, Nigeria, and the scene of a bomb scare earlier this year, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Photo Credit: AP
By Anthony A Kila
After any kind of event that renders...
Aug. 30 | L-R: Sir Emmanuel Ahanonu, President Imo state Union UK, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Governor Imo State & Chief Ethelbert Maduakolam, Secretary Imo State, UK
“Imo State Union UK is the only established Imo State Union in the United Kingdom”...
Aug. 25 | Former and Curruent EFCC boss - Nuhu Ribadu (L) and Farida Waziri (R)
Summary: Corruption on Trial? The Record of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
BY the Human Rights Watch, 2011
Corruption is so pervasive in Nigeria that it...
Aug. 19 | Former Nigeria presidents, Ibrahim Babaginda (L) and Olusegun Obasanjo (R)
A Falling Out of Rouges or Old Men Behaving Badly?
By Akintokunbo .A. Adejumo
“When rogues fall out, truth is revealed, and honest men get justice.” - (1838 A....
Aug. 12 | Saint Louis Market, Senegal. UN Photo/John Isaac.
By Masimba Tafirenyika
Once every few years, the world goes through a familiar ritual: various factors converge to trigger unusual increases in global food prices. In response, countries rush through emergency...
Aug. 12 | Celebrants in Juba, South Sudan. UN Photo/Paul Banks.
By Peter Martell, in Juba
With a roaring cheer the people of South Sudan welcomed the newest nation in the world on July 9. Couples embraced and men cried as the new national anthem was sung for...
Aug. 1 | By Anthony A Kila
Once upon a time, there was a land wherein it was common practice for everyone to be happily affected by, and even actively participate in any kind of religious festival or event around them. It did not really matter whether it was a...
Jul. 27 | In compliance with a House resolution requiring him to clarify the cash withdrawal limit and the Islamic banking policy, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (the CBN Governor) appeared on the floor of the House of Reps on Thursday...
Jul. 11 | By Adebiyi Jelili Abudugana
Voices in support and against continued to trailed the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN)to implement Non-Interest Islamic Banking (NIB) in the country, a package, whose initiative, framework, process leading...
