The case for a Nigerian oil reserve
The G7’s decision to release 100 million barrels from strategic stocks demonstrates what can be done to treat energy security as national security. Strategic stocks may include crude oil, refined products or both. Nigeria should understand the warning. A country blessed with substantial petroleum resources remains exposed to supply disruptions, volatile prices, weak refining capacity […]
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.
Peculiar Jobs Scheme
THE importance of job creation to reduce the scourge of unemployment seems to have dawned heavily on later day political leaders. About three years ago, former Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State launched an ambitious jobs scheme aimed at recruiting 10,000 new hands into the state’s teaching and civil services.
