Better deal for indigenous sailors
Nigeria cannot keep applauding its seafarers once a year and then abandoning them to harsh working realities at sea. The renewed call for better welfare is timely because, without sailors, there is no maritime trade, and without maritime trade, the wider economy suffers. The demand for improved welfare is driven by a few hard facts. […]
Code, Conduct, Contempt
CONTEMPT for the Code of Conduct which the political parties were supposed to sign, began with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, releasing the document so late that it is irrelevant to the elections.
400 Kids Die From Lead Poisoning
OUR leaders swear to protect our lives and property but like most of their promises, they fail at the critical moments. When there are crises, the weaknesses of our security and emergency structures are obvious.
Security, Elections, The Future
NOBODY expects matters of security to be discussed in the open. When security is about elections in Nigeria, the need for secrecy is more. There are too many people interested in compromising security around the elections.
Bode George – Hypocrisy Continues
IT is so easy to condemn the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for celebrating the return from prison of Chief Olabode George, a former naval officer, on whom the PDP has hung its ambitious electoral plans for the South West, especially Lagos.
Wanted: A President for Nigeria’s poor
STUDIES confirm Nigeria as one of the world’s poorest countries. Nigeria has one-fifth of Africa’s population, more than 80 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day, the standard international bar for poverty.
Debates About Debates
FOR Nigerians, everything calls for debates. Sometimes the debates are about the insistence of some that there should be no debates on any issues.
Sad, Abba Aji Remains In Presidency
ABBA Aji, a former senator, a presidential liaison officer in the National Assembly is proud of his pedigree for being in the news for all the wrong reasons since he joined the Presidency.
Don’t Take Nigerians For Granted
THERE an unceasing tendency for Nigerian leaders to take the people for granted. It begins with an exaggerated importance of their office and extends to the divine justification in which Nigerian leaders clothe their actions.
INEC’s Appeal On Five States
ON what grounds will the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, appeal a federal high court decision excluding five states – Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Sokoto and Adamawa – from the governorship polls?
Fear is not freedom
THE exclusion of two key areas of our lives – the economy and defence -from the oversight functions that the Freedom of Information Bill is meant to provide, weakens the effects of the bill before it becomes law.
