Africa: New scramble by forces of insecurity
Africa is witnessing a scramble for control, but this time the contestants are not colonial powers planting flags. They are terrorist organisations, criminal syndicates, traffickers, mercenaries, kidnappers, and armed groups exploiting Africa’s weaknesses. The result is a continent where insecurity is becoming an alternative system of power. The warning from US Africa Command (AFRICOM) should […]
96 hours that will make or mar 35,064 hours
THERE are enough reasons to be despondent if you have lived in these parts in the past 12 years. Elections have become more like circuses. They arrive and depart so quickly that we sometimes wonder whether they happened.
Rising Pre-Polls Violence
THE signs are more ominous particularly with the official approach of always reacting to events.THE mayhem that has laid parts of Akwa Ibom State to waste was preventable.
Compromise – Ayes Have It
HOW important is competence in appointment of public officers, especially in assignments at ambassadorial levels? The Senate, the confirming authority for ambassadorial appointments, thinks competence belongs elsewhere.
No Looting, No Loathing In Japan
JAPAN is not new to tsunamis. The first recorded one occurred on 28 November 684. The number of tsunamis in Japan totalled 195 over a 1,313-year period (to 1997). On the average, there is a tsunami every 6.73 years, the highest rate in the world.
INEC’s plans to end rigging
THE indecisiveness of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has ensured that two weeks to the elections, the list of candidates remains a conjecture. INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has admitted that a syndicate in INEC was fiddling with the list, he promised to handle the matter.
Surplusage Of Freedom
ARE we to take the Senate serious when it claimed while passing the Freedom of Information Bill, it was providing surplusage of freedom? The mere suggestion that there could be too much freedom and access to information is that the type of thinking that quickly tells us why the country will not make much progress soon.
Between Bankole and Sanders
THE scandal in whatever transpired between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Sanders, is as much in what was reported as in the silence that has greeted the revelation.
Challenges For World’s Billionaires
TO be a billionaire in most of the world’s currencies, except those that are valueless, is a feat. When the figures are reckoned in dollars, they set the individuals apart and present for them challenges that are no longer ordinary.
Katsina-Alu/Salami – awaiting the Justices
WHAT will Nigeria make of the opportunities the crisis in the judiciary presents? It will be too presumptuous to think that the departure of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloysius Katsina-Alu and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami will cure the judiciary of the allegations of corruption but it will be a good start.
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.
