Tag: opinion
MDGs: Nigeria’s Gains, Challenges
By Precious Kalamba Gbeneol In September 2000, building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders…
Yes, Lagos Is Safe!
By Joe Igbokwe Ordinarily, Lagos like every other smart and intelligent cities in the world, are fertile grounds for criminals.…
Crime And Punishment: Thinking Beyond The Law (2)
By Bamidele Aturu Second, in real terms the state is above the laws as it has the power to alter…
Birthday Notes To A Lost Nirvana
By Femi Osofisan I know Kole Omotoso. Wrong. I used to know Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer. Some thirty years…
Nebo: The New Spirit In The Power Sector
By Sunny Igboanugo When the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Ositadimma Nebo, stood before the Senate earlier this year to…
Addressing The Menace Of Child Molestation And Rape
By Akunna Ejim A seven-year-old child, living with her aunt in Delta state, was repeatedly molested and raped by a…
Crime And Punishment: Thinking Beyond The Law
By Bamidele Aturu “The quantity and quality of crime in a given society is inseparable from the prevailing conditions of…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Timeless Piece
By Grace Igbokwe Chinua Achebe was well known throughout the thirty-six states of the federation and even beyond. His fame…
Boston Manhunt And The Lessons For Nigeria
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The attention of the whole world was drawn to Boston, in the United States of America, these…
Nigeria From 1966-1970: The American Files Are Not From Heaven (Part III)
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyeka Awoyokun should have done more research before concluding that the coup was an Igbo affair. Northern…
Regulating The Practice Of Estate Agency In Lagos
By Sola Ogunmosunle Just recently, the media was awash with the news of a Lagos property developer cum estate agent…
Humanising Governance According To Governor Fayemi
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Back in recent time, when gubernatorial mandates were brazenly stolen in broad daylight under the watch…
Nigeria From 1966-1970: The American Files Are Not From Heaven (Part II)
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Awoyokun asserts that if it were not for the ‘Igbo’ coup of January 15 the massacres…
I Will Pay My Debt To Achebe
By Isaac Umunna I have a confession to make: I am owing Chinua Achebe. That I did not pay this…
Birthday Notes To A Lost Nirvana
By Femi Osofisan I know Kole Omotoso. Wrong. I used to know Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer. Some thirty years…
Salvaging Local Government System From The Brink Of Precipice
By Chukwunonso Daniel Ogbe It is no longer news that the local government tier of government in Nigeria has been…
Lagos ACN To PDP: Your Time Is Up
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has dismissed as the height of self mockery, the boast…
Imo’s APC Gov, Ivory Towers And X-Rated Industry
By Mbadiwe Gregory The dictum that “the pen is mightier than the sword” is creating agonising moments in Imo state.…
What Does The North Really Want?
By Osagie Joe Nigeria could have had her political independence before 1960, but because the northern region was not prepared…
Nigeria From 1966-1970: The American Files Are Not From Heaven
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema My unquenchable interest in how and why Nigeria stopped turning between 1966 and 1970 was ignited…
Now That The Rain Is Here
By Ayo Afuwape Several forecasts had been made by different authorities about the intensity of rain that would be experienced…
Can APC Cure Nigeria’s Headache? (2)
By Chido Onumah I have no illusions about the challenges (some of which are beginning to manifest) and limitations of…
Beyond The Recommendations Of The Oronsaye Report
By Theophilus Ilevbare In spite of repeated assurance from the government to appropriately down size its unwieldy work force and…
Elections 2011, Opinion, Politics
Jonathan’s Mudslinging, The Press And The 2015 Omens
By Nkrumah Bankong-Obi Once rumour mill began chugging about President Goodluck Jonathan’s ambition for a second term in office in…
Amnesty For Boko Haram: A Wrong Signal From The North
By Lajunwon Lasisi Amnesty request for terrorist Boko Haram sect, is a wrong miscalculation of political harangue. The request is…
Ekiti Has Seen Enough
By Dimeji Daniels The recent simulated political crises in Ekiti State reminds one of the build-up to the 2007 gubernatorial…
Boko Haram: A People’s Alternative To Peace
By Adewale Adeoye Recently, tear-soaked Mrs. Deborah Shettima from Borno State gave a gory account of how her husband was…
Bamanga Tukur’s PDP Is The Problem Of Nigeria
By Joe Igbokwe These are indeed troubled times for the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur…
Nigeria: A Nation On The Brink
By Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Across every strata of our national life, there seems to be boiling silences of grudge, vendetta and…
Let’s Blame Corruption, Greed And Impunity
By Odunayo Joseph There is no doubt that the ossified profligacy and the reckless urge for sharing rather than baking…