ECOWAS — beyond the glitter of new edifices
President Bola Tinubu’s ribbon-cutting for a gleaming new ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja offered a flattering image of ambition — but brick and glass do not heal the fractures that threaten the community’s very purpose. Fifty-one years after its founding in 1975 in Lagos to promote economic integration, collective security, free movement and democratic stability across […]
Politics Of Minimum Wage
WHEN politicians are out for votes they can postpone problems, pretend to solve some and behave as if they no longer know what the issues are. The search for votes is too important to be left at the whims of labour, which threatened to disrupt the elections. It is time to play politics with the minimum wage.
96 hours that will make or mar 35,064 hours
THERE are enough reasons to be despondent if you have lived in these parts in the past 12 years. Elections have become more like circuses. They arrive and depart so quickly that we sometimes wonder whether they happened.
Rising Pre-Polls Violence
THE signs are more ominous particularly with the official approach of always reacting to events.THE mayhem that has laid parts of Akwa Ibom State to waste was preventable.
Compromise – Ayes Have It
HOW important is competence in appointment of public officers, especially in assignments at ambassadorial levels? The Senate, the confirming authority for ambassadorial appointments, thinks competence belongs elsewhere.
No Looting, No Loathing In Japan
JAPAN is not new to tsunamis. The first recorded one occurred on 28 November 684. The number of tsunamis in Japan totalled 195 over a 1,313-year period (to 1997). On the average, there is a tsunami every 6.73 years, the highest rate in the world.
