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...
I OFTEN told my children when they were growing up to avoid lying. As I told it then, one thing about a lie is that it has to be covered up. If you tell one lie, you have to tell another lie to cover the first, then a...
From Pinjher, we flew to Talum. The flight was bumpy but to my amazement, all the soldiers slept as soon as the copter took off, bodies bumping bodies as the fight jerked on. The noise from the copter blade kept me...
Our political leaders in their usual effusive and ostentatious style would roll out the drums in Abuja and all states of the Federation to celebrate the national Independence Day in what has become a ritual on every...
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) strongly condemns the dastardly assassination of Mr. Bayo Ohu, the Deputy News Editor of The Guardian, by unknown gunmen in the presence of his children. We have no doubt...
By this time next week, Nigeria would have celebrated its 49th anniversary as an independent nation: there will be speeches, prayer sessions, the same old hollow rituals. Almost immediately after, you may expect talks...
It is no longer news that the University of Benin has been embroiled in a crisis of monumental proportions since the past six months over the selection of a substantive Vice-Chancellor. However, it must be brought to...
The death in the early hours of Saturday, Sept. 5 2009 of Gani Fawehinmi, one of Nigeria’s most outstanding legal luminaries and human and civil rights activist was received with shock, trepidation and despair by...
I am not an Abian, but having spent nearly all my life in Aba , I consider myself at least a stakeholder. In the least, I should hold an opinion. I started life in the legendary town called Enyimba City from the dawn...
Mr. President, I don’t know how you would take this, but there is no nicer way of putting it – Nigeria is going down. I have watched, helplessly, in the last few months as things appear to be spinning out...