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A Golden Nugget Buried Abroad

Two years ago I left the shores of Nigeria after completing my policy training at the Nigerian Institute of Policy…

INEC Has No Excuse Not To Succeed

Now that the Presidency has ordered the Federal Ministry of Finance to release N72 billion to the Independent National Electoral…

Are Africa’s Commodities An Economic Blessing?

In terms of natural resources, Africa is the most abundant continent on earth.  But rather than a blessing, most of…

The Circus Show In Abuja

Last week, the annual ritual described by people in some quarters as a circus show took place at the International…

New Love Resolution

It is a common practice for people to map out their plans and aspiration for each new year as it…

Chukwuma Soludo: Limitation Of A Radical Reformist

The Nation of Saturday, 5 June, 2010, reported that the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo…

Need For Urgent Prison Reform

The dehumanising state of the Nigerian prisons is a cause for serious concern and if nothing urgent is done, the…

Why Elections Matter In Democracy

I have been asked to speak today in the Plenary IV panel sesson titled “Do Elections Mean Good Democracy?” I…

Cross River, Ebonyi PDP Primaries: Foretaste Of 2011 Polls?

The violence and crisis that marred the recent local government primaries of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River…

Connivance Of Police Authority In Crime: Falana Spoke The Truth

President Goodluck should as a matter of urgency order investigations into the activities of the Nigerian police in the last…

Kidnappers Must Be Brought To Book

After spending exactly one week in the dense forest of Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, the four journalists…

My Ordeal In The Den Of Kidnappers

The story below is an awful and horrifying narration of one man’s experience in the hands of kidnappers in Nigeria…

USA’s Clampdown On Corrupt Nigerian Govt. Officials

The report that the government of the United States of America would start revoking the visas of corrupt Nigerian government…

Waiting For Love

Have you ever experienced delayed marriage? Gone are the days we used to think it was a woman’s ‘palaver’ but…

Lions Standing Guard For The Kongi And Other Great African Writers

The first time I came across the name Wole Soyinka was in a book titled West African Verse: an anthology…

Ribadu For President 2011?

It was perhaps the biggest news item of the past week. I am referring, of course, to the report that…

Set Kidnapped Journalists Free

The abduction last Sunday of four Nigerian journalists and a driver and the demand of N250 million ransom by the…

Bond Is A Financial Instrument Not Political

My involvement in the establishment of the branch of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Abeokuta prompted me to dabble into…

Walter Carrington At 80: A Historical Necessity; An Agent Of Change

It was Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who said few years back that the story of man is a chronicle of…

Who Will Fix Nigeria?

Whenever, eminent Nigerians want to betray their sense of self-delusion they refer to Nigeria as the giant of Africa when…

The Internet: Many Disadvantages

‘Daddy, who was John Rockefeller?’ ‘The internet is not only for Facebook, Twitter and downloading music. Google it’ was the…

Bad Roads In Lagos: Fashola Goofed

Apparently reacting to reports about the bad state of roads in Lagos State and government’s seeming insensitivity to the plight…

How To Work Out Your Promotion In Any Economy

In every organisation, there are usually two sets of people; the business person and the slot filler. A business person…

How Not To Treat Senior Citizens

The plight of the nation’s pensioners, also called senior citizens, has again become an issue of serious concern to many…

Causes Of Broken Relationships

The rate at which relationships break up these days is alarming and gradually becoming a thing of great concern both…

Osun: The Vituperations Of The Vacuous Speaker Of A Largely Illegitimate Assembly (2)

No justice worthy of that hallowed name would endorse such elementary arithmetical scandal. Here are several other examples: In Ayedaade…

Jonathan In The Eye Of The Storm

As a president of a country assailed by a legion of problems of gargantuan proportions, Goodluck Jonathan has been trying…

Osun: The Vituperations Of The Vacuous Speaker Of A Largely Illegitimate AssemblyVituperations

Adejare Bello, the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, may be undistinguished, but whatever he lacks in accomplishment,…

Time To Fix Lagos Roads

Murmurings and curses are not far from the lips of Lagosians because of the poor state of roads in the…

When Honourable Turn Pugilists…

What transpired on the floor of the NASS on June 22, 2010 is a reflection of the decadence and collapse…