Why Nigeria needs Commodities Price Regulatory Agency
Never has there been a time more than ever before in our nation's economic history when there is an urgent need for the introduction, or rather re-introduction, of a price control mechanism like the Price Control Board by past governments decades ago. A simple general sampling of some major market prices across the various markets in the country of recent...
JKF: Celebrating an intellectual in the saddle
I was at Ado-Ekiti just about three years ago with a large team of young persons from across South-South Nigeria to participate in the electioneering of my friend and senior Comrade in the struggle for democracy in Nigeria, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. It was a big fight between the 'stomach infrastructure' led regime of Ayo Fayose and the more enduring legacy of...
DAKUKU PETERSIDE: Rising gas prices, crisis in the making
Nigerians are facing hydra-headed challenges on all fronts: debilitating insecurity, extreme poverty, hyperinflation, high cost of food and essential consumables, diminishing trust in government and its institutions at all levels, and worse, there is no clarity on the way forward. Everyday quality of existence for the average Nigerian is depreciating, and people are quickly bemoaning their fate and hoping...
Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia highlights: Inequalities breed unrest
President Muhammadu Buhari had a very successful visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the high which is the symbolization of our mutual trust and resolve to combat climate change, improve trade and promote investment in humanity, not profit as a motive. It was also an opportunity used by the President to reassure the global investment community on the question...
Great Ife: Olorode got it all wrong (2)
The unfortunate death of Miss Omowumi Aisha Adesina, a Part Four student of Foreign Languages at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Thursday, 30th September, 2021 was, understandably, angrily responded to by her colleagues who took their protest beyond the university campus to the highway, with implications for their own safety as well as for the safety of other...
EHICHIOYA EZOMON: Kingibe as truth-teller to power mongers
With recent pronouncements of two personalities, Nigeria may hopefully be heading in the right direction, away from a toxic environment fouled by utterances and deeds of our leaders. It's refreshing to hear Ambassador Babagana Kingibe (GCON) and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State "speak truth" to separate bases, one of which works for the other to grab political power. While Kingibe...
Zenith Bank posts N180bn profit in 9 months
Zenith Bank Plc has posted a profit before tax (PBT) of N180 billion, for the nine months ended September 30, amid headwinds, the Group’s unaudited nine months financial results presented to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited, on Sunday, in Lagos, has indicated. The PBT reflected a one per cent growth over the N177 billion recorded in the comparative period of...
Troops foil kidnap of Catholic Bishop in Imo
An attempt to rob and kidnap the Catholic Bishop of Orlu, Most Rev. Augustine Ukwuoma, at the Diocesan Secretariat along BSC Road, Orlu in Imo State was on Sunday foiled by the troops conducting Exercise GOLDEN DAWN Sector 3. Brig.-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director Army Public Relations, said the troops will continue to frustrate the actions of the proscribed Indigenous People of...
Why I visited Buhari, by Tinubu
Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has explained why he visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday at the President’s official residence in the State House, Abuja. Speaking to State House correspondents after the closed-door meeting, Tinubu stated that his Sunday’s mission to the seat of power was to thank President Buhari for visiting him when he was recovering...
How Oyo APC members held us hostage for hours – Congress C’ttee
Four members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) State Congress Committee sent to Oyo State on Sunday narrated how party members held them hostage for four hours in Ibadan. Four of the seven members – Diran Iyantan, Ralph Igbokwe, Olarewaju Edun and Abdullahi Kontagora – accused the Secretary of the seven-man sent from the National Secretariat of APC of singlehandedly...
