PROTESTS in Brazil’s biggest cities are over the billions of Dollars the country is pouring into preparations for the 2014 World Cup, the first in Brazil in 60 years.

SHOCKS over the United States Government’s order that Nigeria has to improve ports security or face sanctions – stoppage of vessels sailing to Nigerian ports – are indicative that Nigerians do not fully appreciate the implications of being members of the global village. It may be a village, but it has standards.

FOUR days ago, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala gave federal agencies that withheld N58 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, up till today to remit the funds.

SENATE President David Achelenu Mark in Prague, Czech Republic, said military rule was gone forever in Nigeria. Mark thrilled his audience with Nigeria’s efforts to sustain democracy after it has run uninterrupted civilian administrations for 14 years.

BY MICHAEL EBOH with Agency Report Projections that Nigeria will begin to export refined petroleum products by 2016 may not materialize after all, as the International Energy Agency, IEA, yesterday, said it expects a significant increase in oil processing with the coming on stream of new refineries in Asia and Middle East. The IEA in […]

THE Nigerian Bar Association’s call on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the Nigeria Police Force should be taken seriously. The police are not in any state to serve Nigerians meaningfully.

THE furores in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over its governors’ conducts and the possibilities of no primaries for the 2015 elections are part of the politics of convenience that the party has been playing exceptionally well since 1999.

JUNE 12 still stands even if it is as a fading political momentum. More than half the population of Nigerians younger than 30 do not know much about the election, in 1993, which Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won but the military annulled. It remains one of the most tumultuous moments in the past 20 years.

BASIC as electricity is to modern living; there is a basic misunderstanding about reflecting this importance in the lives of Nigerians. The people are unimpressed about government trumpeted gains in managing the challenges of electricity supply.

ABUJA has become used to medical students of the University of Abuja flooding the highways leading into the city, to protest the continued insensitivity of the university authorities to their plight. Many of the students after eight years in the institution have not advanced beyond the 300 level though ordinarily it takes six years to graduate as medical doctors.

A CENATOPH – the second in eight years – was erected for victims of the Dana crash of 3 June 2012 at the crash site in Iju-Ishaga, a crowded Lagos neighbourhood. The plane’s 153 passengers and crew, and another 10 people on ground perished.

MORE discerning Nigerians would not be surprised at the suggestions that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should not conduct primaries for its presidential and governorship candidates. With Chief Tony Anenih, Chairman of PDP’s Board of Trustees adding his voice to “no primaries”, the matter is already settled.

TWO years into his presidency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is celebrating the achievements of the administration. The President and his acolytes at a May 29 event that exalted sycophancy awarded himself high marks, egged on by Ministers, who one after the other applauded whose wisdom was behind the achievements, of course the President’s.

FOR African leaders the attainment of the Golden age by the African Union, which started of as the Organisation of African Unity in May 1963, was something to celebrate. But it was a celebration that was lacking in highlight of accomplishments on social, political and economic fronts.

THE most important issue in Nigeria now is leadership of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF. It has eclipsed security challenges the country faces.