By Joe Igbokwe The other day I watched Al Jazeera Television where Omoyele Sowore, of Sahara Reporters, our own Professor Wole Soyinka and Dr Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Goodluck Jonathan spoke on Nigeria’s political crisis and Boko Haram insurgence. The programme was anchored by Femi Oke of Al Jazeera Network [...]
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Nigeria is a blessed nation. Its people are unbelievable. Its leaders are ingenious. Quite very ingenious leaders! From the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to the incumbent Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, our leaders have been incredible. Take, for instance, the late President Umaru Shehu Yar’Adua. He met on ground a delicate situation in [...]
By Peter Claver Oparah To start with, I am no fan of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers State. Not that he is my enemy though. He is of the PDP, the party most of us believe, has been behind the monumental wreck of the Nigerian state in the past fourteen years. I took [...]
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh This time last year, I had the greatest shock of my life – the assassination of my friend, my brother and my inestimable comrade; Olaitan Oyerinde. The news of his assassination reached us in the wee hours of the morning and we all had hoped it was not going to be true [...]
By Akunna Ejim That corruption is one of the banes of Nigeria is no news to anyone with even the most remote knowledge of the affairs of the country. Most foreigners often hear about the country first through some form of negative association, usually unfair, since the focus on corruption is often magnified to the [...]
By Babatunde Fashola Lagos, of course, has chosen a different path. It lives largely on the revenue it raises by itself. 70% of its N499 billion ($3.2 billion) budget for year 2013 and the preceding years have been self-generated. The Federal Government’s monthly allocations only account for 30% of Lagos’ annual resources-to-budget cost. In order [...]
By Chido Onumah Typical of the Jonathan regime, it took the effort of investigative journalists – this time, the reporters at Premium Times – to alert Nigerians about the planned assault on our civil liberties. The latest deal, involving an Israeli company, Elbit Systems Ltd., is for the supply of the “Wise Intelligence Technology (WiT) [...]
