Nigerians were thrown into the ice when in July 2003, a sitting governor in the person of Ngige was abducted and was placed with a gun on his throat to sign a letter that he would cease to be governor…
My recent column, entitled “Bishop Kukah’s Grave Misreading,” generated a high volume of emails, many of them remarkable for their insight. I was so struck by one email, written by a UK-based Nigerian, that I wrote back to ask its writer for permission to share his thoughts with others…
Of all the roadblocks that exist in the Nigerian healthcare system, disharmony and rivalry among health professionals is the biggest challenge. Doctors care more about remuneration than healthcare reforms…
A great number of public nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary schools across the country do not have lavatories, experts said. Some have toilets, but its either the restrooms do not have doors or a water system for users’ convenience…
The signs of a brewing political war are very ominous to all discerning observers as we gradually approach the 2015 General Elections. From shifts in political alliances, convocation of fresh ones, to the outright breakup of pre-existing ones, Nigeria’s political amphitheater is once more poised to stage another round of gladiatorial duels…
It is important to note that fundamental organizational strategy frameworks used in businesses can easily be applicable to political parties. When it is all said and done, political parties are entities in the business of selling political candidates in competition with others…
It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls. Over one hundred days in which the girls have had to endure pure horror and pain in the hands of terrorists. Over one hundred days of waking up at the mercy of the mood swings of terrorists…
With the return of democracy in 1999 it became obvious to those looting the country’s economy using so called national debts that it wouldn’t take long before Nigerians began to demand explanations for the country’s debts…
It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako has escaped from the country after he was impeached as governor…
To understand the level of stealing the US has used the dollar to carry out, you should know that it costs $0.04 to produce each dollar note. In other words, spending $0.04 on each note, the Rockefellers, the JP Morgans, and the Warburgs, as the real owners of the Federal Reserve System, have forced the world to accept them as $1 note, $5 note, $10 note, $20 note, $50 note, or $100 note…
Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned his government, the criteria with which contracts were awarded then to mostly indigenes, were not committed to assiduous supervision…