WERE the law of comparative advantage to be fully operational, Nigeria would have benefited tremendously from an arrangement where its criminal cases would have been firmed out to Britain and America.

CHIEF Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, the self-styled Ijaw leader is one of those I describe as “Nigeria’s surviving problematic elders”. Others in his group include Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Ango Abdullahi and the rest.

By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu “T[he]…passiveness of the media regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to challenge…bias and effectively regulate the broadcast media is not fully consistent with regulatory framework for the elections or international standards requiring the state controlled media to ensure fair and equitable access by contesting parties” – European Union Election Observation Mission LAST […]

IT may sound too sweeping a statement to make but it is true to say that most people who find their way into leadership positions in Nigeria deep their hands in the coffers. Most of our so-called leaders have criminal tendencies and they have no greater purpose for seeking public office than to help themselves to and keep in perpetuity what belongs to all.

THE failure, two times in a row, of the Senate to screen ministerial nominee Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi based purportedly on a contrived corruption allegation against the former Rivers State governor has all to do with politics in the bad sense and very little with due diligence.