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...
Nigeria aspires to be among the 20 biggest economies in the world by the year 2020. Budgeting is an integral part of that action plan. But at this crucial juncture in the life of the nation, lawmakers elected to serve...
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...
Nigeria's youth soccer team continued its run towards defense of its Under-17 World Cup title, with a comprehensive victory over New Zealand. Elsewhere, Burkina Faso was knocked out of the competition. The crowd...
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...
Dear Honourable Friend. Those generous Nigerians who e-mail you with promises of a fortune are themselves being targeted in a new drive to deter cyber criminals. Millions of internet users have received messages...
A coalition of human rights groups is calling on Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashire when he comes to Nigeria this Thursday, October 29 to attend an African...
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...