Outgoing members of the National Assembly are not likely to get their April/May salaries and allowances before they quit on May 29 as the N10billion loan obtained by the House and the question mark over the 2011 budget threaten to affect the payment of their salaries and allowances.

I think the big question is how and why we have not attained in political development those standards that we may have carved for ourselves in other areas to the expectation and admiration of all those who will wish us well beginning from ourselves; to the sub-region; to the African continent and the outside world.

Air transport has a unique advantage over all other modes of transport if speed, time and distance are major considerations. Air travel has developed very rapidly in Nigeria from the 1920s till date, but the 70s and 80s saw the development of many airports in many of the state capitals. Similarly, indigenous participation in the industry, originally exclusive to foreigners, has also expanded as indigenes acquired both the technical know-how and managerial resources, as well as funding to operate airlines.

By Ochereome Nnanna

The Nigerian Army was not cut out for direct roles in politics. Being an offshoot of the British military system which abides by the liberal democratic traditions of Western Europe and the USA, the Nigerian Army, even till date, is constitutionally mandated to submit itself to civilian authority. That is why the [...]

By Emmanuel Aziken

The resolution of the Niger Delta question is prominently etched as one of the seven-point agenda of the Umaru Yar‘Adua administration. However, crystallizing a solution to the Niger Delta question remains a myriad like other notable elements of the seven-point agenda such as power, wealth creation and security.

Remarkably, a solution to [...]

By Jide Ajani

Looking ahead signifies an intention to go beyond the immediate, explore possibilities and plan for the future.  But how do you go beyond the immediate when the immediate is already ahead of you? How do you explore possibilities when the path to exploration is strewn with mines? Concomitantly, what manner of plans [...]

By John Egbokhan

Putting Nigeria’s sports in its proper perspective since  independence is one that requires little brainstorming, given that since sports is judged by results, ours is simple and can be summed up as a prolonged failure.

To put it straight, our score card in major international championships has fallen short of expectations. We [...]

By Dayo Benson, Political Editor

At 49, Nigeria as a nation remains a bundle of contradictions. As Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, once described it, the nation is a contradiction because what some people want negates what other people want and the result is what nobody wants. Almost half a century after independence, the country’s [...]

By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna

At 49, Nigeria has nothing significant to celebrate. Unmet health needs are all Nigerians have to show. In the area of health, the nation has remained a  toddler, refusing to grow and develop. The current state of the nation’s health industry sharply defines the level of decay, deploration and [...]

By Babajide Komolafe, Peter Egwuatu, Ifeayi Ugwuadu, Franklin Alli & Yinka Kolawole

The global economic recession, which started as global financial crisis reveals clearly  how underdeveloped and vulnerable is the Nigeria economy even after 49 years of independence.

Successive administrations have pursued the objectives of economic diversification and self reliance. The economy is however still [...]