Peter Claver Oparah

It is just natural that news of such fatal crash as the ill fated Dana airline crash in Lagos some days ago elicits a momentary wave of shock and curiosity among Nigerians. Thereafter, and almost immediately, the shock tapers off leaving close relatives, friends and associates of the victims to bear the sad memories...

The smoldering smoke from the ill fated Dana Airline crash in Iju Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos, has gradually died down and with it, a nation tottering on the brinks of security maelstrom has gone back to its troubled sleep. Life, as in the greatly unsecured and un-assured form we have known it as Nigerians, has assumed its normal style...

With the cacophony of voices emanating from the quarters of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government on the reports of the House of Representatives probe into the scam that was conveniently dubbed fuel subsidy, Nigerians are getting round to the reality that no tangible action would be taken against the crooks that benefitted from this huge scam...

It is not difficult to fathom why the PDP and its allies feel so uncomfortable with the public posture and indeed the personage of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State. He is hewn in the mould that is radically different from those of the people that populate the PDP...

Two significant events happened in Africa last week that should force Nigerians -- both the government and the governed -- to do a health check on the democracy we have in place currently: the military coup in Mali and the defeat of incumbent President Abdulaye Wade in Senegal...

I don’t know how many people see through the present effort by the PDP to finish off what is left of the judiciary after the scandalous manipulation that saw to the suspension of Justice Ayo Salami, in a desperate effort to stave off an impending inquest into the more-you-look-the-less you see electoral heist of April 2011...

I cannot help but laugh out loud when I read the scandalous report that President Goodluck Jonathan has discarded the so called palliatives he employed as an alibi to effect mind boggling increment in the price of petrol by New Year...

The bottomline in the present probe of the oil industry by the House of Representatives is that the Nigerian oil industry is a huge mess, as has been feared by most Nigerians. It stinks, it reeks so horribly. It is a scammers' haven...