Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees
The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that owes much of its liberation history to African solidarity. Nigerians and other foreigners have been harassed, threatened, and driven from homes and businesses by armed mobs and vigilantes. More disturbing is the apparent inability or […]
EFCC: Another Show Time
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has perfected ways of attracting attention to its work. The arraigning of former governors, a seasonal EFCC public relations glitz, is tied to challenges it tells the public could militate against its intentions.
Local Government Elections
LOCAL government administrations have become the most constitutionally abused matter in Nigeria since the 1999 Constitution became operational. Only a handful of States hold local government elections. Others carry on as if it is legal to run local governments without the Constitution that created them.
NOSDRA: Challenges of cleaning oil spills
NIGERIANS are full of expectations over what the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, will do to check the prevalent cases of oil spills across the oil exploration belt. Its task seems simple — compel oil companies to consider the effect of their operations on their host communities.
Fire Siasia, his contract says so
IT will surprise only a few that Samson Siasia’s stay as coach of the Eagles would become a matter of obtuse national debates. We have excelled in promoting nothingness as a sterling mark of excellence.
Arrest of The Nation’s editors
THE recent arrest and detention of editors of The Nation Newspapers by operatives of the Nigeria Police over an alleged petition by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has, expectedly, created a great furore across the land.
