Whitehall is a street in London that has bestowed its name on ministries of the British government. It also bestowed its practices and traditions on the civil service of Nigeria and most other Commonwealth countries. The street is now a metaphor, like New York City’s Wall Street and Broad Street, which respectively represent investment banking…
The following submission by Dr Lasisi Olagunju, columnist and Editor of Saturday Tribune that “nothing we do or say will change Nigeria, unless it turns back from its present (self-inflicted?) plunge,” probably summarises the ungodly algorithm for Nigeria’s oil sector won’t bode well. So much is wrong with the entire upstream, midstream and downstream value chain of…
The demands of those who organised the #EndBadGovernance protests, which commenced on August 1, 2024, should make any tough cookie politician pause and review his strategies on the economy of Nigeria. The “Ebi npa wa” cry by Nigerians should compel anyone to begin searching for alternatives to handling the drifting Nigerian economy, caused by the…
Far-right or right-wing extremism is radically conservative, ultra-nationalist and authoritarian, with nativist or tribal tendencies. Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg say that the far-right worldview is of a society that “functions as a complete, organised and homogeneous living being.” The far-right, with a sense of entitlement, want society to be based on ethnicity, nationality, religion…
Zenith Bank Plc is offering its ongoing hybrid rights and public offers at the bank’s lowest price range, locking in about 32 per cent gain in potential immediate return for existing shareholders and new investors. Nigeria’s largest bank by profit, Zenith Bank is offering a rights issue of 5.233 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo…
Those who wonder why the Dangote refinery has to buy imported petroleum have no clue how much Nigeria’s security system has failed to contain oil bunkering in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry. Nigeria’s production quota, as approved by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is 1,500,000 barrels per day, out of which it…
The Fulani Sullubawa have ruled over the Kano Emirate since 1819, after Usman dan Fodio’s Islamic revival of 1804 swept across the Hausawa nations founded by legendary Bayajidda, said to have come from Baghdad in Iraq. Bayajidda’s first son, Bawo, by Queen Amina of Daura, begat six sons who ruled Daura, Katsina, Zazzau (Zaria), Gobir…
Professor Olatunji Dare, journalist, teacher, scholar, public intellectual and mentor to many, turns 80 years old today. This man of letters, who writes to advance the cause of citizens on Main Street, Nigeria, deserves his flowers in the most open manner possible. Unlike the proverbial teacher, whose rewards are to be received in heaven. Incidentally,…
As Eni Ogun, Cap’n, Captain Blood, Prof. Oluwole Akinwande Babatunde Soyinka, Nobel laureate, writer, essayist, playwright, poet, critic, actor, musician, wine connoisseur and (maybe not exactly) a sharpshooter (in the estimation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo) turns 90, the world is celebrating. Making 90 is remarkable for a man who practically lived on one battlefront…
Zenith Bank Plc is on a winning streak. For the fourth consecutive year the bank has won the Best Commercial Bank Award of the World Finance Banking Awards. Also, for the third year in a row, the bank won the Best Corporate Governance Award. The news of the awards, reported in the Summer 2024 edition…