I had to pay money to be carried through a flood. The money we paid when summed could be enough to maintain or build a new flood drainage system…
Barring the lateness of the Special Guest of Honour, Operabuja 2009 lived up to its high billing and once again satisfied the longings of many who have had enough of comedy shows and music concerts where DJs helped artists to mime their songs…
I am baffled by the constant dialogue among Nigerians in America about “foreign women” who reject Nigeria. Many Nigerian-American men and their families have cast American women as snobbish of third-world living and disdainful of Nigeria…
It is arduous, if not a herculean task, to safeguard and revamp a currency in the era of globalism and international currency trading. The recent and precipitous declining value of Nigeria’s naira to major currencies including dollar, euro, yen and others is something of great concern…
Nigeria, the sleeping giant of Africa and its leaders and privileged citizens are still mounting podiums and making speeches and addresses rather than getting our hands dirty by doing what is needful to turn the tide of underdevelopment in our country…
I commend young aspiring writers from Nigeria. I urge them that even though Nigeria may have a poor reading culture or writing does not attract the kind of fame of music and Nollywood, they should keep their dream alive…
In what would appear to be a reckless outburst of emotions, Sanusi was quoted as saying that the sacked bank executives now standing trial at the various courts in the country deserved to die by firing squad for eroding public confidence…
In Nigeria, we have had quite a few high -profile cases of false death rumours: Nnamdi Azikiwe, the First President of Nigeria was declared dead by Nigerian newspapers years before he actually died…
Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, the Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria and other companies threaten the existence of the trees…
Indeed, anyone who understands the Bayelsa political landscape understands that the opposition against the governor is rooted – not in sectional and low-politics – but in his mammoth incompetence…
The Court was due to resume sitting on November 24th 2009 but met for case management on Monday 23rd November 2009 during which it was presented with an email from Mr Dawodu…