By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInG in the equation. The totality of their operations— admittedly irritating, criminal and Eco-hostile—is just a tip of the iceberg. The real Mccoy is the billionaire league of eminent thieves. What is even more befuddling is the fact that the government would rather borrow money to fund its budget than staunch […] Read more
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju MaTaZ ArIsInG The Washington Post of May 29, 1979 reported an exchange between President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and an agent of a British money-printing firm. The Ugandan dictator asked the man to help him print two million Ugandan shillings worth of 100 shilling notes. The Briton accepted the […] Read more
From: Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA To: Uncle Kwasi Dear Uncle Kwasi, Trust all is well with you. What an incredible month and a week it has been for you — appointed Chancellor on 7 September 2022, unveiling your mini budget on 23 September 2022, seeing the financial markets crash immediately and then getting your P45 […] Read more
By David Hundeyin In 1977, the Cameroonian government made a rational decision. Observing the absence of adequate water resources to support growing agricultural pressure in northern Cameroon, the government of Ahmadou Ahidjo decided to build a dam on the Benue River which would supply hydropower to the region and allow for the irrigation of 15,000 […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG By Frederick Obong As Nigeria is collapsing around us let us remember how we got here. ROLL CALL OF THE PROMOTERS OF FAILURE IN NIGERIA Here are some of the prominent names that helped send BUHARI to Aso Rock: Dr. Oby Ezekwesili Fela Durotoye Atiku Abubakar Omoyele Sowore Izala Muslim clerics and Christians […] Read more
By Francis Ugo We were once told not to approach a wellhead in Niger Delta. The reason was simple,There was an ongoing ‘operation’. I was working with an oil service company, we had already gone back to accommodation after working on the well. But a call from base necessitated we get to the wellhead again […] Read more
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju (Published on Monday, 10 October, 2022) While standing before a judge, any judge, you are a ‘petty man’ even if you are a professor of law. I am not being rude. You shouldn’t have any problem getting my drift if you go back and read William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Josiah Akinyele writes that Lagosians would soon be riding the Metro, 40 years after it was mooted If Lagos State is the economic nerve centre of Nigeria, Lagos Island would qualify as the heartbeat of the state. Boasting proximity to the major ports of Apapa and Tin Can, Lagos Island hosts headquarters of […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye We all go through happy times and sad times. Cheers today, tears tomorrow. When you see a heap of footwear at the entrance of your neighbour, it is a signal that many people have come to either celebrate with him or to commiserate with the family. In the ambivalence of Fate’s Tarot […] Read more
By Femi Fani-Kayode Yemi Osinbajo, a legal guru, a jurisprudential genius, a Professor of Law, a highly-acclaimed Pastor, a well-respected Servant of the Living God, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a writer and author of many books, an expert on the law of evidence and our nations’s Vice President came from very humble beginnings and yet has […] Read more
