Why do we love to inflict hardship on ourselves?

Yes, there have been clamours to reconstruct the roads leading into the nation’s ports and especially…

The imprudence of shutting Wharf Road

  It is evident that any strategic and holistic plan geared at leapfrogging Nigeria’s economic development,…

Poverty as Nigeria’s new normal

  There is nothing more shocking than being freed from a prolonged season of delusive understanding.…

The economics of public holidays

  The philosophy behind declaring public holidays is a laudable one. Public holidays are designed to…

So Lagos means business?

By Ace Omozuwa When I read  the news report that the Lagos State Governmenthas declared Thursday…

The merry-go-round on Nigeria’s refineries

On May 17th 2007, less than two weeks to the expiration of the President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration,…

Let’s not swindle posterity

  The Minister of Transportation, Mr. RotimiAmaechi, recently disclosed that the federal government is negotiating $15…

When leaders lie

  It is a season of dramatic irony. One of the poignant dramatic ironies in the…

Once a garden city, now a soot city

  It has been argued again and again that the primary responsibility of the government is…

Our aviation needs urgent attention

  Recent news from our aviation sector are everything but palatable. From the emergency door of…

Making energy the oxygen of our economy

  According to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola,90 million Nigerians do…

The leaders of today and the burdens of tomorrow

  “The Youths are the Leaders of Tomorrow” is a commonly used phrase to remind and…