THERE is a political dialogue (or diatribe - whichever you prefer) currently taking place simultaneously in Anambra State and in Abuja. It i...

THE current attempt by the Federal Government to encourage Nigerians to patronise Made-in-Nigeria products is a re-invention of an old initi...

DESPITE the collaboration of the standing presidential economic team and the ad-hoc presidential steering committee, the Yar'Adua admini...

To the extent that fake and expired drugs are responsible for the deaths of several unsuspecting consumers and the incapacitation of several...

One distinctive feature of democracy is the right of the people to expect and demand good governance from elected officials and it is also t...

I REFER to the article by Isiaka Adams in The Guardian (August 7) which dealt with two other articles, one by Dr. Ishaq Akintola and the oth...

THE more I tried to overlook these stories because of their extraordinarily repulsive nature, the more I felt morally compelled to write abo...

"LOOK, I think these our honourable lawmakers in Abuja are jokers." " Easy. Easy, man... Don't allow anger to poison your...

THERE has been a series of interventions in the imbroglio between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) but none has raised so muc...

Again, the goal post for gas flaring has been shifted till December 31 next year. And Nigerians can only hope that it is the last. In the la...

With a little over 377, 000 policemen, Nigeria, a nation of over 140 million people, is one of the most under-policed nations in the world. ...

In response to what the Federal Government calls the rigidity of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the on-going nationwide ...

It had seemed a far-fetched ailment, but with the recent increase in the outbreak of swine flu in many countries especially the United Kingd...

THE ruling party and its sympathisers are not pleased with the frank assessment of the Nigerian situation by the American Secretary of State...

NOT satisfied with the conduct of the post-University Matriculation Examinations (UME) by Nigerian universities, the Senate recently initiat...

SHELL, Chevron, Agip, ExxonMobil, Totalfinaelf, Schlumberger, Halliburton, etc (hereinafter called Big Oil) have won again. Has anyone notic...

THE death of Mrs. Cory Aquino on August 1, 2009, Mother of the Yellow revolution brought back beautiful memories to me. In 2002, I visited M...

Financial mess •How Nigeria was looted blind •N17tr stolen in one year Recently, the Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (...