Written By Bolaji Akinola Trapped in the morass of a thieving and an uncaring governing elite…
Category: Columns
Ban of 113 oil tankers and Nigeria’s crude oil trading terms
Written by Bolaji Akinola The decision by the federal government to ban some 113 vessels from…
Adieu Captain Solomon Omoteso
Writtten By Bolaji Akinola I have fond memories of Captain Solomon Abiodun Omoteso who died at…
Help, no water to drink in Otuoke
Otuoke is the village of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan – the immediate past President of Nigeria.…
Dikko Abdullahi’s tumultuous reign
From the very beginning of his tenure as the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service on…
EFCC is no stranger to NIMASA
We are going the rounds again. Power change hands, a new Director-General is appointed, he makes…
Truly, God is a Nigerian
Suddenly everything seems to be working again. I don’t know what electricity supply is like in…
The Jonathan we didn’t know
Alexandra Gillies, a specialist on natural resource governance and transparency, aptly captured the mood of her…
Another hogwash
Director General of the National Automotive Council (NAC), Aminu Jalal was in Lagos a few days…
Reckless Customs officers
A few days ago, the media was awash with reports of three young Nigerian women who…
The flip side of devaluation
One of the major mistakes past Nigerian leaders made was to consider the country an oil…
What goes around, comes around
I was motivated to write this piece by a friend who recently said that when town…