The need for integrity in public service
By PATRICK OGBE In any country, the public service, remains an integral part of the country’s workforce. Its relevance and contribution towards the steady, but noticeable progress of each country’s...
View ArticleBuhari and the Biafra question
President Muhammadu Buhari has of late been speaking up on the renewed agitation for the realization of Biafra by our brothers and sisters in the eastern part of the country. The president, who had for...
View ArticlePower of the National Assembly to scrap a State
By Chris Akiri IN its Tuesday, May 3, 2016 edition, on pages 43 and 48, The Guardian carried the contents of an interview it granted to Mr. Kemi Balogun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), in which...
View ArticleWhen lawmakers become lawbreakers
By Fred Nwaozor SEVERAL legislative councils at various quarters across the country have violated or broken the law which they are bound to safeguard. The most popular phenomenon in this regard is...
View ArticleHerdsmen of terror (2)
LEWIS OBI. 08173446632 sms only, lewisobi66@gmail.com ON 7th May 2014, Fulani herdsmen killed 25 people and burned six villages in Benue State. Later that week Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed 25...
View ArticleDeconstructing Umahi’s position on Fulani herdsmen
By Emma Anya on May 3, 2016, I got an early morning message from a friend and professional colleague based in Chicago, United States. The message from Ben read: “Emma is the story crediting...
View ArticleThe illicit trade in tobacco
By Nojeem Adetuberu There are growing concerns about the resurgence of illicit trade in tobacco in Nigeria and globally. Tobacco Reporter, an online medium that provides information and insight on the...
View ArticleNigeria: A negotiable entity
When renowned novelist, Chinua Achebe, diagnosed that the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, most Nigerians believed him. Only a few Nigerians disagreed with him. But...
View ArticleEFCC and its premeditated actions
The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is an agency of government I admire greatly since its creation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and when its pioneer chairman, Malam Nuhu...
View ArticleLet’s graze, let’s farm but let’s live (2)
Continued from last week BESIDES the immediate order of the President of the Republic to the Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies including the military to fish out the culprits and...
View ArticlePCC and dispute resolution in Imo
By LEONARD AJOKUBI THE Public Complaints Commission (PCC) otherwise called the Ombudsman, was established to assist members of the Nigerian public in the informal resolution of concerns and complaints...
View ArticleBoosting MSMEs in Lagos
By Tayo Ogunbiyi AT the launch of the first Lagos State Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Fair, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode affirmed that the best way to revive the national...
View ArticleResolving the herdsmen menace
By Dennis Brown James THE Federal Government’s passive condemnation of the killings and mayhem unleashed by Fulani herdsmen across the federation recently is not what is required to douse the...
View ArticleJames Okpara unmasked (2)
By EBERE WABARA ewabara@yahoo.com 08055001948 TODAY, we continue our series on the monstrous Commissioner for Special Services, Legal Matters & Due Process in ex-Governor T. A. Orji’s Office,...
View ArticleCelebrating 2016 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
By Fred Nwaozor Today, Tuesday May 17, the global community is celebrating the 2016 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). In November 2006, the International Telecommunication...
View ArticleThe IGP Nigeria needs
By Chima Chukwunyere in the book, Lincoln On Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times, the author, Donald T. Philips, made a fundamental observation: “When Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861,...
View ArticleNigerian vandals and an American example
By Ikeogu Oke Who does not know Theodore Kaczynski, that mix of genius, anarchist and sociopath who once terrorised America? A mathematical prodigy and Harvard graduate who earned a PhD in mathematics...
View ArticleRochas Okorocha: Why is this man different?
In Nigeria politics today, it’s rare, if not difficult, to see elected public officials who have decided, through diligence to do things positively different. For many of our politicians, the central...
View ArticleNigerian women and food security
By BILKIS BAKARE The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 805 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, representing ratio one in nine, suffered from...
View ArticleBuhari’s first road?
By C. Don Adinuba let us start with a confession: I frankly do not know the first road contract which the Muhammadu Buhari administration, now about to mark its first anniversary, awarded. But it would...
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