L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu

With its countless individual fibers of bribery, favour and nepotism, crooked politicians hijacked the government, the Yar'Adua government was the PDP party, and neither could function without the other...

I’m convinced of the need to recognize that, politically speaking, we Nigerians have failed. Nigeria is just a caricature of a state, and the Nigerian nation a fictitious concept for sociologists and historians writing about the country...

Nigeria can be developed successfully and this must be underpinned by tolerance, social cohesion and acceptance of democratic values....

President Umaru Yar'Adua's efforts to combat corruption in this country have not been sufficient enough to justify receiving an award for anti-graft campaigning...

It is no longer strange that Nigerians are expecting a lot from Yar'Adua's administration. We expect them to convert resources and opportunity into a gainful economy that can produce Nigeria’s socio-economic restoration...

Poverty is still a growing problem in Nigeria - a country which is estimated to have earned about $280bn from oil during the past 30 years...

President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday wrote the Senate for approval to raise 500 million US Dollars in the international capital market. The move underscores earlier prediction that the Federal Government is in for a long borrowing spree...

The situation in the Niger Delta provides a textbook example of how Nigerian military officials, including their commander in chief, view the concept of freedom...