Marfan Syndrome
Marfan Syndrome is an inherited connective tissue disorder where individuals are characteristically very tall, slender, have a narrow face, loose joints and associated spinal or chest wall abnormalities. It is caused by a defect in the gene that enables the body to produce fibrillin which is a protein that helps give connective tissue its strength […]
Of mines, miners and minefields
Believe me when I tell you that I did not think of mines when I set out to comment on the increasing unacceptable targeting of journalists outside due process, and the new dimension it took at a venue where justice is to be accessed by those who complain about the absence of due process.
Hard times are here in 2010. How do you plan to cope?
2010 is probably a year that many innocent Nigerians will be made to pay for the lack of policy direction and recklessness of their leaders. When Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iewala became minister of Finance and the chairperson of Obasanjo Economic management team, she introduced the excess crude revenue account to which monies realised from the sale of crude oil above the budget bench mark was saved. The account, in no time, blossomed following favourable oil price. It rose to as much as $20 billion. States, local government started the agitation for its sharing.
On Busa-Buji Bridge; Jos (1)
This column could easily have been entitled HOPE RENEWED IN JOS and it would have been just as apt. For three days last week, I was back again in Jos because it is an enduring story and it represents one of the many puzzles we must solve as a nation for unity and peace to prevail.
PROLOGUE: Whither Leadership In Nigeria
There is always a temptation in the affairs of men which makes them see what is right as wrong and what is wrong as being right. There are things that are acceptable by Nigerian standards and yet, there are things that may be right but not acceptable. The crisis of leadership that has confronted Nigeria since independence but which became grandly accentuated in the last 365 days and which, judging from present signals may attain new heights in the next 365 days, is the inability of Nigerian leaders to properly locate that nexus between being seen as a strong and firm leader and doing what is right on the one hand, and being naïve and contrite yet, believing that personal interests aggregate national interests.
Gara Gombe backpedals on Lulu, cautions agitators
A staunch member of the Stakeholders Forum that masterminded the removal of former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima has called on those yearning for the total sweep of the current NFA Board led by Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi to be careful in order not to make the same mistake of 2006.
