STREET HAWKING: Why we defy FCTA to sell on Abuja streets
It is 1:45pm on Herbert Macaulay Way, one of the busiest roads in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Top ranging vehicles ply here as a routine because of the presence of the National Oil company on this road.
Rage of robbers
By Mike Ebonugwo No one could have expected what happened. In the first place most of the motorists and passengers in commuter buses were preoccupied with thoughts of how to get out of the slow-moving, bumper-to-bumper traffic between Ago Junction in Okota and Pako in Oke-Afa. The situation was worsened by some impatient motorists who […]
Why Buhari, Atiku & Tinubu moved against Yar’Adua, by Ayo Opadokun
*Declares: President has only one option *‘Politicians are a big problem to Nigeria’ At a time like this it should not be a surprise that former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and immediate past Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are back, together, courtesy of opposition politics. And so, […]
My relationship with Obasanjo, Kema Chikwe
Power is transient, it has moved, and I am happy that what I have seen in Imo State today is different from what used to happen, picking up personalities for destruction just because you saw them as political competitors
Why we translate part of 1999 constitution to local dialects- A G Balyesa state
By Abdulwahab Abdulah Anthony George-Ikoli made headlines four years ago when he emerged the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Bayelsa state. Since then, George-Ikoli had gone further to become the first SAN to occupy the office of the Attorney-General of the state. It is a great challenge to this silk as he has to […]
SERAP urges Clinton to press Nigeria to explain spending of recovered loot
By Innocent Anaba The Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged US Secretary of State Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton to use her visit to Nigeria scheduled to begin on August 10 2009, to press the Nigerian government to exercise sufficient political will and good faith to fight high level official corruption in the country, […]
