When will Nigeria’s IDP camps finally close?
For millions of internally displaced Nigerians scattered across about 3,900 camps and settlements nationwide, home is no longer a place of comfort but a distant memory. Many have spent years in camps established as temporary shelters that have gradually evolved into permanent settlements. The question that should trouble every Nigerian is: when will these IDP […]
Arunma Oteh: Let The Courts Decide
FOR how long would the stand off between the House of Representatives and Ms Arunma Oteh, Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, last? It has lasted for too long that it no longer makes any sense. Who benefits from the confusion that has seen the House of Representatives insisting that it would not […]
Agbaso’s Untidy Removal
THE impeachment of the former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Mr Jude Agbaso, by the Imo State House of Assembly on 28 March 2013 left many unanswered questions.
Bye Iron Lady Thatcher
FOR Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the bell tolled and world leaders gathered to say goodbye to one of the strongest willed political leaders of the 20th century.
Age Cheats Cheat Us
NATIONAL silence has enveloped the discovery that three players in the national U-17 team representing the country at the CAF U-17 competition in Morocco were disqualified. They failed the age detecting test CAF conducted at the competition venue.
Assault On Freedom
THE National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, is the national agency with legal powers to vet, classify, and approve films and videos that are for distribution and exhibition in Nigeria.
Threat of immigrants
NIGERIA is under threats from immi-grants. Unlike the thinking in most quarters, the challenge is not only from illegal immigrants. Most of those who pass for legal immigrants have little business, if any, in the country.
INEC’s permanent backwardness
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) makes too many important decisions to be left in its stiff ways.
Don’t sell our national heritage
OUR government has fallen into the “sell it” mode as an all-time cure for national heritages it cannot manage. In this tempestuous mood nothing is sacrosanct.
Banda: A Zambian Lesson
NIGERIAN authorities applaud themselves about fight against corruption. What has kept matters at the noise level is the exclusion of the high and mighty from prosecution. In Zambia it is different.
Judgments: Jiggles, Riddles
CHIEF Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, is concerned about the quality of judgments delivered in courts across the country. She finds a relationship between the judgments and flagging public confidence in the judiciary.
