Fast-tracking the National ID project
Nigeria should press ahead with finishing its national identity project, and fast. No modern state can govern, plan, or protect a population it cannot properly count. After nearly two decades of fits and starts, the country is finally within sight of getting this right. The numbers tell part of the story. More than 137 million […]
Uganda’s New Car, Nigeria’s Challenge
THE launching of an electric car that the students of Makerere University made has a ringing message for Nigeria on two fronts. The car – Kiira EV – will not run on petrol; it uses batteries and the university is not on strike, but runs its shoestring research budget well.
Does It Matter If It’s A Bomb?
FOR the police, the main issue is the name for the explosion that killed eight and injured scores of others in Kaduna. Traders, who survived the incident, gave detailed accounts of how the bombers arrived on a motorcycle for their deadly operation.
Never Expect Power Until…
THERE is a side to the proposed increase of prices of petroleum products that government glosses over to keep focus on increasing prices next year. This aspect is about electricity, which remains a challenge to living in Nigeria.
Needed: (Northern) leaders who act
LAMENTATIONS about poverty are becoming rituals that issue from most gatherings of the North’s leadership.
Fortunately, enough voices within the North blame the region for failing to use 38 years of leading national governments to develop the North. Governor Aliyu Babangida of Niger State shifts the blame to traditional rulers, who he said discourage education.
Some Small Somalia
SOMALIA represents everything about failure. It is the epitome of a failed state. Since the exit of General Said Barre’s government 20 years ago – he later died in Nigeria – Somalia has had no central government. Warlords carve out their space and impose their authority.
