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Friday, September 11th, 2015
By Daniel Iworiso-Markson – After months of consultation and seeking the face of God, the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, last Tuesday finally declared his intention to run for a second term in office. And he did so in a fashion which sent out a loud message particularly to the opposition party, the All Progressives […]
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
By Obiora Aghadinuno – The trouble with Peter Obi is that he thinks that he is cleverer than everyone else. He maintains a bland and colourless surface that conceals a grandiose interior. He talks with the voice of a woman in a labour but carries a heart of stone. He maintains a well cultivated religious […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
By Barrister Kayode Ajulo – The alleged asset declaration by President Mohammadu Buhari and his Vice Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as presented by his media aide is apparently fraudulent not only to hoodwink Nigerians but to further use same to cover serial violations of their covenant with Nigerians. For clarity, integrity is doing the right thing, […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun, African Examiner – Experience counts so much in every task. In the same regard, attitude and personality go a long a way in all issues and every aspiring goal. Basically, the outcome turns out to be favorable, when a leader (with mandate to serve his people) knows and understands the enormity of […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
By Nath Ibekwe – The news was a jolt, perhaps unexpected in some political circles but actually a realistic renewal of faith and accommodation. It speaks to real politik underscoring the aphorism that there is no permanent friend or enemy in politics. And so, the former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has finally reconciled with […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
By Steve Orji – There is an unfolding economic downward spiral going on in the world economy, especially in Europe. Although Africa has always had long-range structural problems, with its constituent economies permanently depressed. With Greece, Cyprus, and Spain thriving off on bail-outs by the world multilateral financial agency- IMF, and the Euro zone financial […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By Muhammad Ajah – The agitation for Biafra as a country – the Igbo nation, which was initiated at the advent of Nigeria’s independence and which culminated to the civil war between 1967 and 1970, should have become a bygone issue. The negative effect of this agitation, like the Niger Delta secession declaration, the war […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By Petra Akinti ONYEGBULE – In less than three months from now, voters from the three senatorial districts of Kogi State will be at the polls to decide their next governor. Already, various political parties are busy with the electoral process of selecting their respective candidates for the gubernatorial contest and pollsters are at work […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By Inibehe Effiong – Early on Monday August 31, 2015 former governor of Akwa Ibom State and Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Godswill Obot Akpabio, escaped death after his car got involved in an accident along the Airport Road in Abuja. The accident occurred near the Bolingo Junction close to the Ship House, Abuja. […]
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Sunday, August 30th, 2015
An outrage: Relations, sympathizers and friends of the family of Late Mr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Udemba have recently blown their tops following a rude awakening on the recent police deployment across Nigeria. Of course, police officers and other law enforcement agents who have risen above board in the discharge of their duties to the nation should […]
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Sunday, August 30th, 2015
By Adewale Kupoluyi – The nation’s quest for development and a just society may continue to be elusive until the virus called corruption is eliminated from its system. And at the epicentre of this daunting task is the intellectual, who is capable and well equipped as an agent of social engineering, in bringing about the […]
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Saturday, August 29th, 2015
By Inibehe Effiong – The assumption that capacity, antecedents and credibility are the sole parameter guiding the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari is logically and morally untenable. We cannot be swimming endlessly in the ocean of hypocrisy pretending that there is nothing wrong in President Buhari exuding ethnic bias and bigotry in […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Ben Ikari – While it’s appropriate to thank and congratulate Pres. Muhammadu Buhari for his wisdom and goodwill, attempting to keeping his campaign promise to Ogoni by approving series of efforts to fast-tracking the implementation of United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) recommendations. It’s also worth pointing out that the reconstitution of the so-called Nigerian […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2015
By Victor Tombari Giadom – Infrastructure refers to the basic facilities and systems that serve an area, a city, region or country. It includes the facilities necessary for the proper functioning of the economy. It may also refer to the physical components of interrelated systems providing services essential to enable, sustain or enhance societal living […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2015
By Olusola Daniel – Apart from the menace of terrorism and insecurity occasioned by Boko Haram in the northeast, one major problem that has been the bane of Nigeria’s progress is corruption. Over the past few decades, corruption has eaten deep into the very fabric of our nation such that the folks who we have […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
The remembrance of Samuel Okwaraji will be forever celebrated as long as football is loved and enjoyed in Nigeria. Generations coming will always read about him. Of course, I was a kid when he died on August 12, 1989 while in active service for his fatherland, Nigeria. He was a patriotic soul and the memory […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
By Uche Igwe – Many people are worried that the endless negative news from and about our parliament could submerge her potential contributions in democracy in Nigeria. For such an institution that is so critical to our democratic survival that ought not to be the case. Parliaments are important institutions that cut across both vertical and horizontal […]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2015
By Uche Igwe – In the past two weeks, Nigerians have read many petitions emanating from different organisations alleging several forms of corrupt against the Amaechi administration in River State. Most of the petitions including a sworn affidavit are associated with one Livingstone Weche. The weight of the allegations and the seeming desperation of the accusers […]
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Saturday, August 8th, 2015
By Uche Igwe – It is not by force of arms but by force of example that you demonstrate the superiority of any ideology- Mikhail Gorbachev I was very delighted when I read that President Buhari had directed that preparations for the clean-up of the polluted Ogoni land should commence. That decision is very both significant […]
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Saturday, August 8th, 2015
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria – The Federal Republic of Nigeria is organised into 36 States and has in addition a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja. Each of the States now has at least one Federal Universities and one or more State or a Private University. In all there are […]
