Ikechukwu A. Ogu

On January 24, 2015, the news came that the Federal Government had hiked the pump price of kerosene, from N50 to N83 per litre....

The problem of cards getting jammed in ATMs is traceable to system errors in the machines. It is analogous to cases where the machines fail to dispense cash to customers yet debit them. Bank customers are not to blame for these system failures, and should not be penalized therefor or made to pay for same. The problems associated with ATMs in Nigeria are many...

The practice of forced marriage of underaged girls by some parents to shameless, paedophilic men old enough to be their fathers or even grandfathers, plagues Northern Nigeria, some other parts of Africa and Asia...

Sadly, Nigerian employers have turned their recruitment exercises into income-generating ventures. In all, poor jobseekers pay for every job application, with no assurance that the most qualified or exceptional will secure the job!

Immediately the fixed meter charge was introduced into the prepaid meters, electricity supply relapsed to its usual, notorious epileptic nature. Thus, Nigerians are still forced by official fiat to pay for electricity not consumed...

It is very unfortunate that both Peter Tosh and Lucky Dube were killed by fellow blacks. Were their killers acting for themselves or as agents of faceless, but powerful external forces? Is their murder the handiwork of persons who felt pricked by the messages contained in the lyrics of their songs?

The Nigerian press reported a very unsettling suggestion made by Senator Ike Ekweremadu on the floor of the Nigerian Senate the previous day during a debate on the scourge of human trafficking. By the reports, he suggested the legalization of prostitution...

The following are incontrovertible facts about the Nigerian electricity sector: there is either no or epileptic electricity supply in about 90% of Nigerian homes and offices which, thus, depend on generators and spend fortunes fuelling same...