Two companies have been in the news lately in Nigeria for the wrong reasons. MTN, the telecoms giant, faces a record 1.04 trillion naira ($5.2...
Let us say The BUS was the capstone for a missing grave; for the missing graves. When the Nigerian state judicially murdered Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday...
Twenty years ago this November, my brother, Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed for his work to rescue our Ogoni homeland in Nigeria from further destruction at...
As I sat on my reading table to put down this piece, I recalled how the Nigerian state has treated the Ogoni with so much...
Media reports, from both local and foreign sources, have lately suggested that MTN, arguably, Africa’s largest mobile telephone network, may be confronting, possibly, the greatest...
In a week when it’s been pouring, the renewal of MTN’s licence must come as a silver lining. It could have been worse. With the...
There are some figures you hear and your mouth goes asunder. They sound either too good or too bad to be true. I was shocked,...
A recent survey by Mr. Abimbola Akosile of Thisday newspapers, regarding which ‘quick-fixes’ the government can deploy, in tackling the unemployment challenge in Nigeria, threw...
The tragedy that befell the Islamic world during last Hajj may now be a fading memory to majority of people, but to the families of...
“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds...
The current friction, then, is not merely about money or politics. It is about respect, belonging, and the balance between...
The brazenness with which the looting is perpetrated and the most revolting manner its prodigious proceeds are often flaunted before...
If our forces are overwhelmed, why not ask for foreign help? Many nations have done so without losing their sovereignty....
Our fathers have done their part, and many of them will soon pass on. But what will they leave behind?...
Nigeria’s ban on raw shea nut exports is a policy with promise but also with pitfalls. It reflects an ambition...