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Pastor Moses Iloh At 84

By Kola Johnson Is Nigeria a jinxed nation? I ask this question in the light of the astounding surfeit of…

BAT: The Paragon of Leadership Trudges On @ 62

By Joe Igbokwe In writing this piece I read through a book by Dottie Billington Ph.D with the title Life…

Curtail Arbitrary Charges At The Ports

For years, maritime stakeholders have been agitating for the creation of a commercial/ economic regulator — an agency saddled with…

Nigeria We Failed Thee, Our Own Dear Native Land…

Nwike Ojukwu The few honest White historians as well as the locals have documented copiously, and it has been ingrained…

The Insensitivity of a Globetrotting President

Adebayo Taiwo Hassan-Justice The full import of what leadership is, or more precisely, the section of the Nigerian constitution emphasising…

Deprivation In The Midst Of Plenty

By Akunna Ejim How shall we label this madness? Young people set forth from their residences with desperate hope -the…

Defuse This Time Bomb, Now!

By Ademola Adegbamigbe Among the Nigerian daily newspapers that published the photographs on their front pages, the caption by The…

Nigeria’s MDG Score Card

By John Tosin Ajiboye The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established after the Millennium…

Drug Reduction And Rehabilitation

The screaming headlines on drug seizures and arrests by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, are important,…

Why do African kleptocrats steal money they don’t need?

Why do African/Nigerian politicians steal money they don’t use, see, need, reach, or access? The stealing by government officials in…

Stop Politicising The Boko Haram Menace

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has named General Muhammadu Buhari as the sponsor of the Boko Haram, the religious extremists…

Ensuring The Well-Being Of The Aged

By Bilikis Bakare Apart from death which everybody knows is inevitable and unstoppable, one other reality that comes to all…

One Week, One Tragedy

By Chido Onumah It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives…

NIS Recruitment Tragedy: The Blame Game Continues

By Joe Igbokwe The Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Abba Moro is supposed to be the first person to throw in the…

Gender Equality: Ogun Keeps Faith With MDGs

By Sakirudeen Bashiru The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were drawn in 2000 to galvanize the efforts of about 193 countries…

Between Abdullahi And Danagogo

When former Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Bolaji Abdullahi, was removed from office recently and replaced by…

Arise, O Cowards, Nigeria’s Call Obey

By Nwike Ojukwu Majority of Nigerians are strident in their demand for the removal of Minister Abba Moro and others…

Between A Necessary Conference And Ultimate Truth

By Fr. Akodu Peter Kehinde The convergence of opinions has established the fact that we need a conference of Nigerians…

As States Face Bleak Economic Future

On 3 March, Governor Babatunde Fashola stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly with a new set of challenges of governance.…

‘Motherfuckers’ in government in Nigeria

Olufolaji Fadeyibi I know I am going to receive a lot of advice on how I am too old to…

A Contrived Fuel Scarcity

Following the hardship Nigerians are subjected to daily, the prevailing fuel scarcity across the country demands that a serious and…

Still On The NYSC Scheme

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Like every other nation, Nigeria has had her own fair share of herculean challenges and difficult moments.…

The Immigration Recruitment Tragedy And A Crumbling Nation

By Peter Clever Opara More than the morbid count that emerged from the ill-fated recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration…

Will This National Dialogue Be Any Different?

By Kanayo Esinulo This conference about to begin is important for so many reasons. It is coming at a time…

Building A Solid Healthcare System In Nigeria

By Akunna Ejim Good public health is vital in any country, not only for the purpose of maintaining a healthy…

Someone failed to include me on list of delegates

Nwike Ojukwu As the 492 delegates to the National Conference get down to work, it is pertinent to revisit the…

Community Organising As Nation Building

By Kunle Ajibade The British academic, rabbi and author of The Politics of Hope, Professor Jonathan Sacks, observes that community…

Stem Goitre Scourge Now

The goitre scourge ravaging Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State is a worrisome development that needs concerted efforts to…

Africa’s Declining Capacity To Manage Conflicts

By Makinde Collins At a recent debate in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a political think-tank…

On Lagos CCTV Security Scheme

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Lagos, being the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, and indeed West Africa, has enormous security challenges bearing…
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