Making Nigeria Africa’s energy flagship
Nigeria’s ambition to position itself as Africa’s energy frontier, as promoted by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, at the 25th World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is apt. With substantial oil and gas reserves, the country possesses the natural resources to become the continent’s major energy investment destination. But […]
When 70 Died…
WHAT difference would it make that 70 people died on a pothole riddled road in Anambra State? Who are these people anyway? Are they not the ordinary people whose high numbers are truly irritating our governments?
Rescuing Our Sports
NIGERIA’s decline in sports is becoming more embarrassing daily. We used to rule Africa in some spheres of athletics, football, boxing tennis and table tennis. Even on the global stage, our presence was felt in those sports.
Oke’s Defence Of Yar’Adua
A MEMBER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Wale Oke has finally told Nigerians why President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua headed to Saudi Arabia while the world was taking important decisions at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Nigerians who are getting used to their leaders craving irrelevance, and dragging the country down the […]
Here We Go Again
NIGERIAN politicians are a strange breed. They believe they are the smartest beings in existence. In 10 years of managing Nigeria’s vast resources, they have befuddled the issues. Politics are about power for individual interests that are against the common good. Nothing is more important to politicians than laying their hands on power. They can […]
We Are The Law!
THE House of Representatives is pushing a bill that would grant legislators immunity like the executive. This backdoor move, if it results in a law, would illegally amend Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution, which currently grants this status to only the President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors.
