Category: Opinion

By Sonnie Ekwowusi Today is Easter. The commemorating of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, though He was in the form of God, did not regard His equality with God as something to be grasped. Rather He emptied Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a Cross. But on the […]

By Martins Oloja Six years ago (February 17, 2017), I used this same construct: the correlation between the Truth the Jews put in a grave more than two thousand years ago and the Truth we continue to reject in our political system. I drew attention to this same context (hiding the truth in a grave), […]

By Dan Agbese Let me begin this piece with the obvious. These are trying times for our country. Tensions are rising and heating up the polity. Transitional general elections such as the current general elections usually throw up new challenges that a country and its leaders are forced to deal with. In the nature of […]

Good Friday is a day of great significance in the Christian religion. From the earliest times, Christians have always commemorated the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth on this day. They believe that in the suffering and death of Jesus, God made a definitive offer of healing to a world wounded by selfishness and […]

By Zuhumnan Dapel Nigeria churns out roughly 2 million barrels of crude oil a day, making it Africa’s top producer and the world’s thirteenth. But still, because of its feeble domestic refineries, Nigeria imports about 80 percent of the gasoline it consumes at home, selling it at a government-fixed rate (US$0.43) that is below the […]

This paper had warned that the bold plan by the CBN to redesign and issue new naira notes from mid-December was wrongheaded and ill-timed. The CBN, in presenting the new currency plan, had leveraged the unease with substantial currency holdings outside of the banking sector and the purportedly detrimental effect on the effectiveness of monetary […]

By Azuka Onwuka Over the weekend, there was a news story that the Lagos State Government had banned non-indigenous traditional titles over a video made by the Eze Igbo of Oshodi-Isolo, Fred Nwajagu, in response to the ethnic attacks on Igbo during the last election. It was reported that he was promptly arrested by the […]

At last, the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has eaten its word on the disastrous implementation of the naira redesign policy. Besides the sluggish return of the old currencies into circulation, average Nigerians and other victims deserve a post-mortem disclosure on the unfortunate policy, and why it was foisted with defiance – […]

CBN governor Godwin Emefiele and Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari… Photo: Twitter/NigeriaGOV By ignoring two interim orders of the Supreme Court, and seemingly disregarding a third final order for 10 days, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, ran afoul of the nation’s constitution and set a bad example for Nigerians. The […]

By Abimbola Adelakun Now that Nigeria’s next census date has been officially confirmed, I am curious if the exercise will provide a different picture of our population distribution or merely validate the status quo. Anyone who has been a Nigerian for long enough already knows that the national population is a continuation of the politics […]