AFTER over two years of delay, the report of the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last week Thursday, September 2, 2021, just a few weeks after Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. Expectedly, it shows that the Commission, established by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration […]

TOMORROW, Saturday, September 11, 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of easily the most devastating jihadist terror attack in human history. Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial aircraft full of passengers and dive-bombed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, the Pentagon (headquarters of the United States Defence Department) outside […]

THE Tokyo 2020 Olympics held between July 21 and August 8, 2021, was quite remarkable in many respects. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Games saw athletes compete in empty arenas. Despite the difficulties the Games went on without disruptions. Humanity gallantly refused to yield ground to the pandemic.  As part of the Olympic family, […]

Monday, June 14, 2021 was this year’s edition of the World Blood Donor Day, WBDD. But in Nigeria, an event of such significance was hardly marked, especially in official quarters, perhaps because of the more existential threats facing the people such as security, worsening poverty and food inflation arising from the disruption of farming by […]

A MAJOR indicator that Nigeria operates a backward maritime economy is the existence of a large quantum of wreckages and derelicts within our maritime ecosystem, especially the coasts and waterways. Nigeria has a generally poor attitude to wreckage and waste management. Along our highways, at our airports and waterways, wrecked vehicles and vessels are indiscriminately […]