Stop borrowing dollars, borrow sense: Naira on its way to a thousand to a dollar

Suddenly the naira shot through to five hundred and twenty five to the dollar at the unencumbered parallel market after the announcement that CBN would no longer sell dollars to Bureau de Changes (BDCs). No doubt owners of BDCs have been enjoying the arbitrage between CBN rates and parallel market rates. President Buhari said he saw no benefits from currency …

Continue Reading

They Advance Injustice And Hate Under The Cover Of Religion (1)

By Fr. Uche Ikechukwu, CMF Religion is one of the most misused platforms outside the political, social and economic platforms as well as one of the most empowering platforms with the true disposition to embrace God as He really is. ‘Religion’ from it’s root words, re-ligéré, re-ligaré,  simply puts ‘to connect’. To bridge the gap between humans and the Supernatural Being …

Continue Reading

Echoes from Afghanistan – Reuben Abati

One of the first things I picked up very early in this business of public affairs analysisis something senior colleagues referred to as Afghanistanism. If you were told a column, story or essay, you had submitted for publication reeked of Afghanistanism, it was clearly a subtle kind of condemnation. It meant dabbling into a remote subject that was not of immediate …

Continue Reading

Afghanistan: Important lessons for Nigeria – Etim Etim

The invasion of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, by the Taliban over the weekend marked the takeover of the country by the Islamic terrorist group 20 years after they were driven out by the American military. There were chaotic scenes at the Kabul airport as the Americans, other foreign nationals and Afghansthemselves struggled to flee the besieged country. Hundreds of people flooded the …

Continue Reading

Babangida says he has no regrets, but he can’t rewrite history

GENERAL Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s former military ruler, is a bundle of contradictions. Known as the evil genius, he did much good and much evil. Yet, in his recent interview with Arise TV ahead of his 80th birthday, Babangida said he had no regrets. He also spoke presumptuously about Nigeria’s unity. But as an architect of Nigeria’s current state, Babangida can’t …

Continue Reading

IBB Is Right, The Political Class Divided Nigeria 

The advancement of any society revolves around its politics. A system, putrefying and governed by chaos, tells much about the politics of that set-up. A society cannot rise above its politics. Human, economic and social development begins with the right politics. Where politics falters, the country fails. In ‘The Partitioning of Nigeria ahead of 2023’ of July 7, 2021, I …

Continue Reading

Abba Kyari: A Fall From Grace – Reuben Abati

The story of Abba Kyari, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team speaks to the fate of all men who are overtaken by hubris, that flaw of character from which tragedies have been written from Sophocles to Shakespeare. Every tragic hero or anti-hero soon begins to create illusions of his or her …

Continue Reading

Helping to Hush The Cops

If they were television series, we would have by now watched several interesting episodes of what could have be titled ‘The Rise and Fall of Supercop Abba Kyari’.  But as they are opinions, we have nonetheless seen so many of them – from the very intelligent to the most ridiculous and to those you could clearly smell were written by …

Continue Reading