WHAT do Nigerians make of the money and national honours President Goodluck Jonathan splashed on paralympians after their victories in London? Are celebrations of the paralympians over, as they were in 1996?

IT is annoying to suggest that the most important issue in Nigeria’s politics is who becomes President in 2015. Unfortunately, it is true that the only issue defining Nigeria’s politics is the succession agenda — and it runs through all tiers of government and all the political parties.

SENATE President, Bonaventure Alechenu David Mark has pedigree in Nigeria’s political landscape. His critics are many and they are wont to treat any Mark position with the uttermost scepticism. When he makes an important point, he is dismissed as just playing to the gallery.

TODAY is the International Day of Peace. The United Nations dedicated this day to peace, to underline the importance of peace for human cohabitation and social progress.

OUR politicians never miss an opportunity to blame the military for the retarding growth of Nigeria. The 28-year cumulative hold on power the military had in the first 39 years of the nation’s life, agreed, left consequences Nigeria still suffers.

NIGERIANS are hurt about the inadequacy of basic facilities the country requires to run effectively. Their absence affects economic and social life. Many Nigerians consider the situation irredeemable. Unknown to them, the country has added to infrastructure challenges by mismanaging the few that are available or refusing to create linkages that could result in their […]

ON October 10, 2002, the Internation- al Court of Justice delivered a historic verdict awarding sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun.

ON Thursday August 30, the Federal Government declared Anambra State the 10th oil bearing state in the country. President Goodluck Jonathan made the announcement while inaugurating Orient Petroleum’s Anambra River Production Facility in Aguleri-Otu, Anambra East Local Government Area and the decision has catapulted Anambra into the league of oil-producing states like Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia, Imo, Ondo, Delta and Edo.

OUR attention has been drawn to the controversy over allegations that the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, described Nigeria as “an Islamic country with the largest Christian population.”

Nigerians were surprised — when the Federal Government, on Tuesday, September 4, announced the lifting of the suspension on the flight operations of Dana Airlines. Coming exactly 93 days after its Flight 992 crashed in Iju-Ishaga on the outskirts of metropolitan Lagos, with all 153 on board and another six on ground killed in a tragedy officially tagged the worst airline accident this year worldwide, mixed reactions were bound to follow in its wake, and they did.