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...
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Towards a new police force By Ogbonna Onovo
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...
Leadership vacuum, graft killing Nigeria – Soyinka, others
Notable Nigerians, including the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Fanala, and Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, on Tuesday in Abuja led a mass protest against the...
The Abdulmutallab Effect
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...
6000 megawatts: Hope dashed, irreparable damage – Igbonekwu Ogazimorah
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...
Aso Rock without Yar’Adua – By DANIEL IDONOR
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...
Nigeria: Positive aspects of multiculturalism “Strength in our diversity”
“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...
Nigeria: Dead or alive? – By Reuben Abati
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...
Big Egos Toying with Nigeria ’s Future
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...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT: A CASE FOR NATIONAL ACTION
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 Romps to Victory in Youth World Cup; Burkina Faso Falls
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...
NAS Press Release: ON THE PLANNED VISIT OF AL-BASHIR OF SUDAN TO NIGERIA
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...