An eye for an eye will make most of the world blind. – Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Minister of Defence, more famous as the one-eyed general Alhaji  Muhammad Danjuma Goje, Governor of Gombe State supports the killing of the Boko Haram leaders. He also professes his respect for human rights, but Boko Haram has to […]

WE do not know what informed the high expectations the Nigerian authorities built around the visit of American Secretary of State Mrs. Hilary Clinton. It might well be that the visit soothed their jangled nerves after President Barack Obama visited Ghana. The comparisons Nigerian leaders make with other countries do not relate to imitating progress […]

Nigeria is a dying nation in various senses. The present is in tatters and the future is so compromised that it is only a prospect in bland terms. The state of the nation is portrayed by the state of our children – they are dying.

THE illegality of the Excess Crude Oil Account and the uses it is put into, are among issues everyone talks about, and nobody does anything about them. For 10 years Nigerians, including the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), noted the illegality. No action followed. A member of the House of Representatives last year […]

More than 60 per cent of the revenue Nigerian generated since independence, according to statisticians, was in the past 10 years. What happened to the vast resources as the PDP ruled with hardly any opposition?

The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. – Section 14, 2 (b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria IT is difficult to convince Nigerians that governments are for the people. Long ago, it was established in these parts that governments are not by the […]

Various versions of the story the police told fuel suspicions around their deaths. The police claimed Yusuf died “in action”, the story changed to he died from injuries sustained during the attack, later he was killed while trying to escape. What is certain is that the police paraded his bullet-riddled body to the media hours after the soldiers who captured him in his hideout handed him over to the police.

They denied their people education, the basics for sustainable existence, locking them out of the opportunities of modern living, especially in a technology driven, global economy. The leaders are more concerned in keeping them in perpetual servitude as evidenced in the fact that the children of these leaders attend the best schools in the world.
Poverty is not peculiar to the north.

It is important that the roots of these riots are noted beyond the usual explanations that youth unemployment and religious fanaticism propel them. It is obvious that there must be some people sponsoring the riots. What are their motives?

EFFORTS  at redeeming the damage done to the Niger Delta region are increasingly becoming facades, charades and circuses – government actions consistently fail to match the intent of those acclaimed efforts. The activities of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, starting from the location of its headquarters in Abuja, rather than the ravaged Niger Delta, […]