Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
Africa’s Grim Future
AFRICA is so doomed because we discuss its future without pondering the implications of the woes we bemoan.
INEC – More Cause For Alarm
PROFESSOR Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has a penchant for explaining INEC’s failings. After two years on the saddle, he thinks INEC’s deficiencies play no part in credible elections.
No Nigerian Troops To Mali
IT is a great idea to restore civil rule in Mali. Promoters of the idea must fund it as well as send their own troops to Mali. It is no time to shift the burden to Nigeria as has been the case in the past 20 years.
We Need More Than Manifestoes
ANYONE who listened attentively to former President Olusegun Obasanjo would think that the challenge Nigerian politicians faced was the absence of party manifestoes to guide their relations with the electorate.
What Our Politicians Learnt
OF all the things in the world, our politicians are bickering over the conduct of American politicians during their elections. They are accusing each other of not following the American way of accepting defeat and congratulating the winner.
