ONE of the major issues that have dominated public discourse in recent times is the activities of a group of professionals under the aegis o...

IN June 1974, or thereabout, a Ghanaian friend of mine presented me with a book, Letter to Soviet Leaders, written the year before by Alexan...

ONE does not need to be a cynic to suspect that target dates are set to be missed. And that is why I was mightily baffled by the uproar that...

THE Joint Tax Board recently conducted regional sensitisation workshops on the proposed national tax policy and invited memoranda from the p...

THE Joint Tax Board recently conducted regional sensitisation workshops on the proposed national tax policy and invited memoranda from the p...

THE Joint Tax Board recently conducted regional sensitisation workshops on the proposed national tax policy and invited memoranda from the p...

WHEN armed robbers attack ordinary Nigerians, the news dies to its ordinariness. The attitude seems to be that the poor are entitled to more...

AS several banks release their profits, which have increased dramatically over the previous years, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Gover...

By its new law making it mandatory for British banks to report to the police any lodgement by public officers in excess of 10,000 pounds, th...

There has been a deluge of public outcry, especially from the South, against perceived lopsidedness in the appointment of candidates from th...

To tackle the violence in the Niger Delta, the Federal Government should take the following steps: Initiate a credible, sustained dialogue o...

Quite often the road to good fortune could be rough initially. When the Central Bank governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, announced ...

A trumpeter must attend to the boil on his lips with uttermost circumspection - Nigerian proverb TOO many reckless advisers have found space...

ON a day the news broke that 14 Nigerians executing the hazardous sea crossing into Spain died, while another 23 were rescued, not a word ab...

ONLY 56 of Nigeria’s 109 Senators were on their seats when a bill that proposed a fund to make savings for the future had its second reading...

IS it possible that the Federal Government did not hear about the power outage at the Murtala Muhammed Airport , Lagos that knocked off the ...

DR. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a permanent secretary in the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, is the latest voice to warn abo...

ONE of the few recent news items that should concern government and citizens alike is the increasing rate of divestment from Nigeria by lead...

THE 17-member Power Sector Reform Committee the President inaugurated on September 7, 2007 has submitted an important report that contains n...

THE 17-member Power Sector Reform Committee the President inaugurated on September 7, 2007 has submitted an important report that contains n...