Banjo Odutola

Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi bears the burden of our generation; with his several awards, a renewed hope for our fatherland. He is one of a very few articulate leaders of our country from whom much is expected. Let it be known to him that when in a hole, it is unwise to continue digging...

Several meanings are enumerated as reasons for the offer of an appointment to Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, a retired police officer and past Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Financial Crimes Commission to chair of a newly created Petroleum Task Force...

The result of clueless leadership is the constant dashing of hopes of the next generation. Planning is based on religious mumbo-jumbo auctioned at the altars of prosperity gospellers...

A study of more than 65 countries published in the United Kingdom New Scientist magazine suggested that the happiest people in the world live in Nigeria. Was carelessness which begets recklessness, an ordinary human behaviour trait which saddens others but amuses us, quantified, to determine our euphoria?

After one week of mass protest, the “irreversible and irreducible” federal government has balked; the voice of the people which was misunderstood but not taken for granted has impacted the right notes with Mr. President...

The presentation by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala as statistically, graphically impressive and persuasive, as it was, seemed unauthentic. At the risk of stating that her position of now championing removal of subsidy comes across as dubious, is it improper to ask why she did not trumpet a need to remove subsidies when she occupied the same office under Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo?

There is a need to examine the motive as to why the Boko Haram sect restricts its campaign amongst a people to whom they are intrinsically nexus in culture and religion...

If Mr. Obasanjo rides back on a white horse to his village, after Aso Rock, would it be a triumphant return? I think not. This president’s success will be measured in responses to his utterances after his presidency...