Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
A Nation’s Blessing
IF Blessing Okagbare, the 25-year-old Nigerian lady who is putting the country’s name on the global map, were a footballer, Nigerians would have appreciated her achievements more profoundly.
INEC’s Lopsided Appointments
ISSUES around the lopsided appointments in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have been long lasting, and also long-ignored, but they persist because they are not simple matters. They would not go away by being ignored.
“Baby Factories” – Growing Lawlessness
SALE of babies has been going on for a while. Teenage girls with unwanted pregnancies give out the children, for adoption, usually to couples who want them. Such couples get the children at agreed terms.
Syria Upstages 9/11
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is in a bind. He has vowed to punish Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad, for allegedly unleashing poisonous gases on his people – many are unconvinced.
Electronic Voting Possible If…
NIGERIANS can vote electronically today if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, wants it to work. The other side to the use of electronic voting is the National Assembly, and myriad of politicians who have interests that electronic voting would not support.
