Nigeria is challenged. With growth, we have a chance to wipe out the stigma of abject poverty, and our people can enjoy the advantages of being citizens of an increasingly prosperous country…
Surrounded, border-wise, by hostile neighbouring countries whose extremist wings ceaselessly denounce ‘Zionism’ Israel is proudly exercising her natural rights of existence…
In spite of the very many attempts to explain or subdue the power of death, the ‘death phenomenon’ has quite proven to be one thing that mankind cannot overcome…
With all due respect to Mr. President, the political career of Umaru Yar’Adua is not the most pressing issue on the national agenda. What is most critical, rather, is that this country be governed by men and women with the ability to protect it and to keep its people safe…
Across the nation today, different religious organizations offer prayers against bribery and corruption in Nigeria. Salvaging Nigeria from this scourge of corruption will definitely require a complete change in the value system of Nigerians…
Life abroad has given me security of life and limbs. The fear of being wasted by ubiquitous red-eyed monsters we call armed robbers are gone forever. ..
Recently, the Minster of Foreign Affairs has been making headlines and this is due to his non-appearance before the House committee on Foreign Affairs to explain the level of last year’s budget and defend the 2009 estimates…
Who are the people suffering and why are they suffering? Is it because the people don’t have money to buy what they need? Don’t they have land to cultivate their farms?
For the first time in recent times, the House of Representatives has taken steps towards doing the right thing. The delay in its passage of the 2009 budget despite the Senate’s decision to pass the same budget last December is quite justified…
There is always something about the behavior of the Nigerian state – the inactions and derelictions of her officials – that appears to have been lifted right out of my grandmother’s expansive bank of morality tales…
Issues such as Sustainability are a matter of priority. For a country in Africa, Sustainability does not rank high up there among issues like daily hunger, disease, AIDS, poverty, corruption among other things…