Tackling light arms proliferation
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons across Nigeria is not a distant threat; it is an immediate, corrosive reality that bleeds communities dry of security, livelihood and hope. Pistols, assault rifles and improvised firearms have become the currency of violence, multiplying the lethality of banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes and organised crime. Where once […]
Time to tell us
ELECTIONS have been confirmed for January 2011. We expected that politicians would have deemed it important to start engaging the people in discussions about their future, about the competence they are providing as leaders and their expectations from those they lead.
EFCC, corruption, 2011 elections
MRS. Farida Waziri, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, must desist from exceeding her powers, particularly in relation to the 2011 elections.
100 Days Of Smooth Supplies
AS drums are rolled out in celebration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s 100 days in office, Nigerians could regale in the smooth supply of petroleum products witnessed since his presidency commenced.
Mr. President: Time To Say Yes Or No!
IT is impossible for President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to claim ignorance of the comedy that is being staged presumably on his behalf. Almost daily, one group or the other begs him to run for the 2011 elections.
One year of Sanusi reforms
IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.
One year of Sanusi reforms
IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.
Our Vanishing Coastlines
THE challenge of halting the erosion of our coastlines has moved from a mere media campaign to a group protesting the neglect to government.
Deaths Plus N20b From Police Check Points
IT is no longer enough for President Jonathan Goodluck to condole families of those who die at police check points. His call for investigations are inadequate. Denials that police check points cause accidents are insults to the dead and their family and a confirmation that the police would not dismantle them.
Corruption Incorporated – No New Members Needed
THERE are no more debates about the fact that corruption is thriving. Both the National Assembly and former President Olusegun Obasanjo agree that there is corruption in high places and they have been aware of it for long.
Presidential Planes For All
T is not a co-incidence that government chose two weeks after an incident in Kampala at the African Union summit to announce purchase of three additional aircraft for the presidential fleet.
