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 […]
Helping judiciary enhance free flections
MUCH criticism has attended the performance of the electoral tribunals throughout the country. The anger of those who lose is well noted, especially when they have to contend with wasted resources and their lost expectations pinned on cases, which sometimes look good enough for judges to grant them favourable verdicts.
PDP: Saving Nigeria from the behemoth
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the largest and perhaps the best financed political party in Nigeria. Its members hyperbolically refer to it as the largest political party in Africa given its pervasive influence and spread.
No, EFCC, No
THERE is no doubt that corruption is a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of Nigerian body politics. No institution, both public and private is spared this spectre that is yawning menacingly at our polity. Over the years, the nation’s rating in corruption perception index on international scale has dropped drastically.
Nigeria’s loans —traps, trappings
LOANS are wonderful financial instruments, depending on who is borrowing, the lender, the purpose of the loans, and the sincerity of those who are proposing them.
Babatunde Aliyu Fafunwa (1923-2010)
PROFESSOR Aliyu Babatunde Fafunwa, former Minister of Education died at 87, yet the mourning of his passing on was like that one who departed too early.
