Jideofor Adibe

The practice of parading suspects is not unique to Nigeria. In the US for instance, while it is common for arrested suspects to be concealed from public view while in …

Rather than create more states, the National Assembly should in fact find a way of consolidating the current 36 states into no more than six states to reduce the size …

Nigeria needs to re-think the fight against corruption, and a general amnesty programme could offer the needed break with the unproductive, selective justice and vendetta-driven strategies of the past…

Much has been written about the domination of the country’s politics by the North but without concomitant attention paid to how this is facilitated by their perception as people who …

He was perhaps best known for the ‘Udoji Award’ of the mid 1970s, when many public servants received huge salary increases and were also paid lump sums in arrears, following …

The February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra state has come and gone. As victory sinks in, it is not clear whether others that had earlier accepted the announced outcome …

Since President Yar’Adua vamoosed from Nigeria nearly three months ago, on medical trip to Saudi Arabia, without officially notifying the National Assembly, there has been palpable anger and frustration in …

Though Oshiomhole impressed many people as President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, history teaches us that some of the most famous labour leaders of the past few decades failed woefully …

If slavery could be used to explain the preference of light skin in the USA, how do we explain the phenomenon of many dark skinned Blacks from the Caribbean and …

The recent report that the Lagos state government had shut down four strip clubs around Opebi Street and Allen Avenue in Lagos made headlines and elicited naughty guffaws from people …

While Yaradua’s prolonged illness and lack of formal transfer of power to the Vice President may have brought us to the throes of a constitutional crisis, the situation more importantly …

If there is a bit of the hypocrite in all of us, then our hypocrisy is often at its highest when discussing public officials, especially politicians, in the context of …

Former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has reportedly vowed to return Peter Obi to the Government House, Awka, after the February 2010 polls…

It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or …

Nigeria is once again at one of those junctures where tripping over the precipice cannot be ruled out. At issue is the President’s serious illness, and increasing calls by some …

While I believe the honorary doctorate to Uba was right, UniZik should perhaps have been more creative in the choice of honour. To confer on him Doctor of Public Administration …