Stabilizing Niger-Delta: Dr. Cairo Ojougbo’s call from damaging culture of the past
The Niger Delta Development Commission [NDDC] was created in the year 2000 with a number of defined objectives, including formulation of policies and implementation of projects and programs, but a sole and clear ultimate goal: developing the Niger Delta region which was ravaged by debilitating poverty compounded by the environmental effects of oil exploration activities.
NSE reviews major equities market indices for 2019
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has announced the results of its annual full year market index review for major equities indices on the Exchange.
NAF redeploys 36 AVMs, 40 Air Commodore in new shakeup
By Joseph Erunke THE Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has redeployed a total of 36 Air Vice Marshals, AVMs, and 40 Air Commodores (Air Cdres). The redeployed officers included some Branch Chiefs, Air Officers Commanding (AOCs), Commandants of Tri-Service Institutions, Directors and Commanders. The service, in a statement by its spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Wednesday […]
Abortion: The West, UN trying to decapitate Africa, claim stakeholders
Worried over the huge investment the West is putting into the campaign on abortion as a guise to fighting overpopulation, guest speakers at the 2019 Catholic Men Organization, CMO, Lekki Deanery, Family Day celebration have called on Nigerians and the entire black race to protect their cultural heritage and value the family.
Thoughts on the binding judicial precedent on vacant legislative seats — A rejoinder
The recent dramatic performance of the Professors that testified before the American House of Representatives Judicial Committee on what constituted impeachment offense as captured by the framers of the American constitution is instructive on how academicians could fundamentally differ genuinely or hide under the carapace of selective intellectual excursions to arrive at fraudulent intellectual conclusions! Mr Emwanta’s opinion on Law and Human Rights column titled “Thoughts on the binding judicial precedent on vacant legislative seats”, published on Thursday 19th December 2019 particularly on page 28 of the Vangaurd newspaper, squarely fall in the latter category.
2020s: Nigeria is sclerotic, only radical reforms can stem deepening decline
Nigeria, like the rest of the world, enters a new decade this new year, 2020; it’s the decade of the twenties!How Nigeria starts the new decade, that is, how it performs this year, will tell us how it might end it in 2029. But the omens are not good. Truth is, the preceding decade, from 2010 to 2019, was an utterly wasted one; indeed, a lost decade for Nigeria! Yet, nothing in the behaviour or the mindset of Nigeria’s leaders suggests they are willing to stop the institutional sclerosis that has gripped this country and stunted its progress. It is therefore very unlikely that Nigeria will finish the new decade better than it did the last!
