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 […]
One year of Sanusi reforms
IT is a little over a year that Lamido Sanusi Lamido swept away eight bank chief executives, and some of their directors, in a move the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor said would sanitise the banks and make them more accountable to the depositors and their shareholders.
Our Vanishing Coastlines
THE challenge of halting the erosion of our coastlines has moved from a mere media campaign to a group protesting the neglect to government.
Deaths Plus N20b From Police Check Points
IT is no longer enough for President Jonathan Goodluck to condole families of those who die at police check points. His call for investigations are inadequate. Denials that police check points cause accidents are insults to the dead and their family and a confirmation that the police would not dismantle them.
Corruption Incorporated – No New Members Needed
THERE are no more debates about the fact that corruption is thriving. Both the National Assembly and former President Olusegun Obasanjo agree that there is corruption in high places and they have been aware of it for long.
Presidential Planes For All
T is not a co-incidence that government chose two weeks after an incident in Kampala at the African Union summit to announce purchase of three additional aircraft for the presidential fleet.
