Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
Under-utilisation of Nigeria’s satellite in orbit
The fallout of the Federal Government’s failure to build on the progress made in the country’s space project since 2011 came to the fore on May 5, 2021 when the Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Halilu Shaba, said in Abuja that inadequate satellite coverage hinders monitoring of bandits, terrorists and […]
Kaduna red flag for other states
The main cause of the Kaduna State Labour unrest and war of attrition with Governor Nasir el-Rufai is that the state is overburdened with over 100,000 workforce and a wage bill that has become unsustainable. The governor recently sacked 4,000 local council workers and served notice that more staff cuts, including his political appointees, were […]
Enough of these killings
HISTORY is replete with cases of killings that triggered off wars. Perhaps the most prominent was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on June 28, 1914. The Archduke and his wife were on a visit to the city of Sarajevo when they were killed by Gavrilo […]
Need for change of attitude towards researchers
The disregard with which we treat research and researchers in this part of our world is partly responsible for the relative lack of data and statistics in many fields of human endeavours in Nigeria and Africa. Without data and statistics, meaningful socio-political and economic policies that affect human lives will be impossible. Statistics is the […]
United South for a balanced Federation
For only the fifth time since the restoration of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999, the Governors of the 17 states of Southern Nigeria met in Asaba, the Delta State Capital on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. They had previously met in Lagos thrice in 2001, 2005 and 2017 with an Enugu summit in 2006. While […]
