OPINION

Nigeria, don’t let them define you

By Hakeem Babalola

Hakeem Babalola

They now say I am fantastically corrupt. Is this true or not? Fantastically corrupt! I know I am corrupt but am I fantastically corrupt? Are they right to say I am fantastically corrupt? Even if I am fantastically corrupt, is it right for my eldest son to agree with them? Is it right for my ducky son to go to Igilandi (na wood we dey gather together) to shame me to the world?

EDITORIAL

Nigeria, corruption & Mugabe's assault

Robert Mugabe

WHEN the Zimbabwean nonagenarian President Robert Mugabe took a swipe at Nigeria, describing the country as corrupt and one whose public affairs were governed by sleaze, the angry reaction of many was not unexpected. 

COMMENTARY

Nigeria, which way to go?

By Kingsley Omose

In a post made sometime in October 2011, I had warned that the
decision of the 36 State Governors to refuse NNPC and PPPRA to make deductions for fuel subsidy from the Federation Account for September 2011 fuel imports was going to result in a stalemate at the start of January 2012. The Governors followed it up by refusing deductions for October, November and December 201

GENERAL NEWS

 Nigeria, UK diplomatic row looms

NIGERIA and the United Kingdom (UK) may be heading for a diplomatic faceoff after Abuja cut British Airways' (BA's) seven frequencies (number of operations) to three. The government had cut down on the European carrier's frequency via a letter signed by the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah-Ogiewonyi.