By Godson OgheneochukoJust when one thinks he or she has heard the worst that could happen in this country of ours, some other news seemingly crops out from nowhere to knock one off his saddle. I'm sorry to...
A troubled education sector
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Obasanjo spent $16bn not $10bn on energy sector
Fresh fact has emerged that the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent $16bn on Nigeria’s epileptic power sector and not $10bn earlier reported by the media. The Speaker of the House of...
Using false identity to travel abroad
The craze to travel abroad by all means arguably became a noticeable fad in Nigeria about 20 years ago, when unemployed graduates, prostitutes and school drop-outs began to explore every crooked method of finding their...
The Senator as a coward
By Reuben Abati"I am so angry if I see that fellow called Senator Nuhu Aliyu, I will call him a coward and an irresponsible fellow to his face. Being a Senator does not give him the right to take Nigerians for...
Iwu’s answers have destroyed Atiku’s petition – Yar’Adua
President Umaru Yar’Adua and Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday argued that the responses of the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu, to the 27 questions by Alhaji...
The Role of the Driver’s License in State Building
Being a paper delivered by Osita Chidoka, Corps Marshal & Chief Executive, Federal Road Safety Commission, at the University of Nigeria Alumni Association, Abuja Branch, Dance/Award Night on Tuesday, December...
The World is changing and we are we part of the unfolding?
By Dr. Christopher Odetunde“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another,” –...
Kenyan governance crisis and lesson for Nigeria
When elections that should result in the emergence of legitimate parliamentarians (MPs) and a president degenerate into a situation where the two major parties accuse each other of ethnic genocide, a concerned observer...
Education Sector and the Limits of Market
By Kayode KomolafePresident Umaru Yar’Adua has appropriately made education an item in its famous seven-point agenda. The huge challenges facing the nation in that sector justify putting education in the priority...
Senator alleges presence of fraudsters in N/Assembly
Senator Nuhu Aliyu on Wednes day alleged that some members of the National Assembly are involved in advance fee fraud, otherwise known as “419”. “419” refers to Section 419 of the Criminal Code...
Yar’Adua’s Stakeholders and Elections
The massive manipulation and violence that characterised the last local government elections prompted President Umaru Yar’Adua to call a stakeholders’ meeting to deliberate on the crisis arising therefrom...
How Ibori Was Convicted in UK – EFCC
It was a shocking revelation yesterday, when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) came out with documents on how the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, was allegedly...