Friday, July 24, 2009
Atlas Cove and the Niger Delta struggle
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IS the Niger Delta conflict being ethnicised? Does it face the risk of being reduced to an Ijaw/Yoruba face-off? Or perhaps at some stage th...
Monday, July 20, 2009
Deplorable state of Federal roads
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With the advent of the rains, the deplorable condition of most of the Federal roads across the country has reached critical dimensions. From...
Failed Banks Debtors
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Today Nigerians know better why 13 of the nation’s banks went under some years ago, leaving their depositors and staff in agony from which m...
Resolving the Oil Wells Issue
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The on-going dispute between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State over the ownership of 76 oil wells (another account puts the figure at 75...
NCC and the 2.3 GHz controversy
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I HAD to restrain myself from joining the fray for long and prayed that the matter would be quickly resolved. This was a difficult decision ...
The destruction of Atlas Cove jetty
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ON Monday July 13, Lagos citizens awoke to the totally unexpected news that the Atlas Cove jetty, one of the major arteries supplying refine...
Amnesty, sincerity and the Niger Delta
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WITH every care about the public relations profits to be reaped from the measure, President Yar'Adua announced, on June 25, 2009, his of...
The high price that men pay
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THE achievement of fairer and more equal relations between men and women, boys and girls is still largely considered a women's issue in ...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Dispute over 76 oil wells
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OVER the past few weeks, the governments, people and stakeholders of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states have been engaged in a riot of media c...
MEND, the Lagos Speaker and a nation adrift
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"ATLAS Cove." "Now, that gets me angry. I'd ordinarily expect the Niger Delta militants to show some consideration for th...
More bombs: MEND's official reply to amnesty offer
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IN my analysis of the amnesty which Umaru Yar'Adua offered to the Niger Delta activists, I highlighted last week some of the problems th...
Obama and Zimbabwe
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I WISH to respectfully disagree with President Barack Obama of the United States on the true cause of the Zimbabwean economic and political ...
Dispute over 76 oil wells
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OVER the past few weeks, the governments, people and stakeholders of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states have been engaged in a riot of media c...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
PDP and Automatic Tickets
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The subtle campaign by some PDP federal legislators for automatic re-nomination for the 2011 general election is hardly lost on Nigerians de...
Still on Obama's Cairo speech
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama's words of change come in torrents. Not few are overwhelmed with multiple issues thrown up in Obama's spoken ...
Nigerian history through Awolowo (1)
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I WAS not disappointed when I eventually obtained a copy of Awo: On the trail of a titan: Essays in celebration of the Obafemi Awolowo Cente...
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