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October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...
Since 1999 when monstrosity enthroned itself in government in Delta, the State has had about a trillion naira which in the main (some say 90 percent actually) has been mismanaged, wasted and carted away to sundry places home and abroad...
What has been heard from Amaechi was how he would cut down the heavy tax people pay, his government instituted, if elected the second time. This gesture by the governor was once a taboo, a case the indigenes used against the image of non-indigenes as incapable in the Rivers State government...
They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means...
Ever since President Goodluck Jonathan announced to his friends on Facebook that he was going to seek nomination of his party to run for president, the battle seemed to have been also transferred online. The missing link, however, remains the way many of the politicians who joined the social media bandwagon use such platforms to engage the voters...
It is given that the ability of any democratic government to deliver the concrete benefits of good governance to the citizens is determined by the smooth functioning of the executive, judicial and legislative arms of government. This assumption reinforces the theory of separation of the powers of the different arms of government to prevent arbitrariness, tyranny and recklessness...
Obasanjo can be likened to Hun Sen of Cambodia, who is seen as a complex personality: a charming diplomat, an eloquent poet, unforgiving to his enemies, ruthless in battle with a thirst for power but simple tastes...
The no issues, strictly personal gubernatorial conquest in Oyo state is a sign of hope for politics in Nigeria, and bad omen for governance in Oyo state...
Prince Tonye Princewill on 11th March 2011 reaffirmed what a Elaine Agather had said: “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”
The eyes with which I see the world, which makes me approachable or amiable or dignified or capable is not Nigerian. I get that from my vicinity. From that view, we can be better friends than we currently are...
Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...
As an introspective person, you have a rare opportunity that Providence grants few in their lifetimes to do well and affect the collective destinies of multitudes of persons. By now, you are inundated by the enormity of the royal mess left behind by your predecessors in office as leaders of Nigeria…
Writers are not protected from discrimination. When I worked as an accountant I dealt with discrimination and I’m still dealing with it now. It’s funny, looking back from my first writing class, it feels like I’ve been on one long audition, standing before an audience who is yelling, What have you got? Go on, tell us an African story!
The focus of this piece is to reflect on El-Rufai’s giant strides towards boosting and revamping the previously overlooked small to medium-sized enterprises sector within the Federal Capital Territory...
The Nigerian community at home and abroad is agog with General Babangida's every move and pronouncements, so much so their concerns and fear and apprehension about the man borders on psychosis...
There are two kinds of relationships we talk about: those who are married, and those who've made a commitment to each other to love and to hold but circumstances make it difficult for them to physically have and hold...
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