Why Nigeria must invest in mangroves preservation
Nigeria and the world are bleeding biodiversity at an alarming rate. Globally, the United Nations (UN) reports that 420 million hectares of forest, which is roughly the size of the European Union, have been lost since 1990, with mangroves vanishing even faster at 35 per cent of their original extent. In Nigeria, the Niger Delta’s mangrove […]
Elections – Jega’s Diluted Apology
ELECTIONS in Nigeria are assuming new dimensions – may be not the ones we expected. In the place of the free, fair, and credible elections Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, promised, what Nigerians got on Saturday was no election at all.
More Than $1 Billion Shame
ONE of the premises on which former President Olusegun Obasanjo built his case to lead Nigeria in 1999, was that he wanted to finish his grand design for the country which handing over of power 20 years earlier, stopped him from concluding.
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.
