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 […]
Wanted: A President for Nigeria’s poor
STUDIES confirm Nigeria as one of the world’s poorest countries. Nigeria has one-fifth of Africa’s population, more than 80 million Nigerians live on less than $1 per day, the standard international bar for poverty.
Debates About Debates
FOR Nigerians, everything calls for debates. Sometimes the debates are about the insistence of some that there should be no debates on any issues.
Sad, Abba Aji Remains In Presidency
ABBA Aji, a former senator, a presidential liaison officer in the National Assembly is proud of his pedigree for being in the news for all the wrong reasons since he joined the Presidency.
Don’t Take Nigerians For Granted
THERE an unceasing tendency for Nigerian leaders to take the people for granted. It begins with an exaggerated importance of their office and extends to the divine justification in which Nigerian leaders clothe their actions.
INEC’s Appeal On Five States
ON what grounds will the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, appeal a federal high court decision excluding five states – Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Sokoto and Adamawa – from the governorship polls?
