“But for General Gowon, Nigeria would not have been as it is today” –   Major-General Paul C. Tarfa  THE role of the individual in history has been explored by historians and philosophers alike over the ages. Thucydides, Polybius, Tacitus, Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, Ahmed Ibn Fartuwa, Edward Gibbon, Georgi Plekhanov, Thomas Carlyle, and many others, have […]

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery was expected by many Nigerians to be the end to petroleum importation and petroleum product scarcity in Nigeria. Sadly, the actualisation of this expectation has been an up-hill and almost an insurmountable task. This is because of the position of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPC Ltd., on the refining and […]

THE Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, got its fair share of the wave of federal appointments as Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, last Friday, announced the appointment of seven Executive Directors. The announcement led me down the path of nostalgia, a wishful past when NTA was the king of broadcasting […]

By Magnus Onyibe Nigeria is experiencing a renewed wave of independence from colonial influences, this time achieving it through energy independence via the domestic refining of its rich crude oil resources. This transformation is being spearheaded by indigenous investors who own refineries, representing a significant step away from neo-colonialism and imperialism. The reason local refining […]

AS the country marks its 64th independence anniversary today, I revisited some of the articles I wrote over the last 15 years to commemorate our years of independence. I began to wonder whether there is really any point writing anything new. In fact, if you bring any article written about the Nigerian condition five or ten […]