The National Assembly recently passed the 2010 Appropriation Bill ith huge adjustments in the total sum to be spent and the key macroeconomic indices on which the budget estimate was predicated. Under the new...
Ethnic Heritage Question Number 9 of the U.S. CensusIf you or our parents emigrated from Africa, identify yourself as being "African" on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire and to be more specific about your...
Yes, you heard me right: the time has come to rethink fuel subsidy. All my life I have argued in favour of fuel subsidy, but now I am shifting my position. My pro-subsidy argument has always been based on two critical...
The rump of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua presidency have tragically missed the point and deepened the unfolding political uncertainty in the air. The desperate contrivance of an audio only interview with the...
THE Nigeria Police Force is reputed globally for excellence in international assignments. Since Independence in 1960 when it undertook peacekeeping operations in Congo Brazzaville, it has won admiration as perhaps the...
By CHINEDU EZE,The attempt to blow up an American airline by Nigerian-terror suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas day has not only caused considerable embarrassment to the country, it has also compelled the...
Of course, this was not the first time Nigerian leaders looked the citizens in the face and told brazen lies. It always happened. But this one was quite outstanding, being strongly urged, loudly proclaimed and adroitly...
Ab initio, it was expected that President Umaru Yar’adua would return to Nigeria this weekend from his hospital bed at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi...
“I have seen enough in Nigeria to know that it is not somebody’s “tribe and tongue” that matters but what they have to offer. If a leader is doing well in office, Nigerians hardly discuss the...
FOR about 24 hours this week, Nigerians did nothing other than worry about the health of President Umaru Yar'adua who had travelled to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage and was going to check on his doctors - the utterly...
Environment ministers from all over the world will gather at Copenhagen, Demark between the 7th and 18th of December 2009 for the United Nations climate Conference with the goal to deliberate and fashion a new...
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) enjoins Nigeria, as a party to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, who is wanted for war...