CORRUPTION is a cankerworm that must be rooted out of the fabric of the nation if the country must move forward and join the club of developed nations of the globe… Nigeria is ranked 139th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perception Index…

NEW Opportunities, new partnerships and new structures will shape Nigeria’s future as an energy giant: When you change something that has been around for 50 years, however much it needs changing, chances are that this change will not be universally popular.

IN 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889.

Hausa community was divided into Hausa ‘bokwa’ and Hausa “banza”, under the powerful rulers, who ruled according to custom and tradition, but the introduction of Islamic religion in the region “in the twelfth or thirteen century”, and its eventual firm root, following fresh band of Muslim Wangara and Fulani traders and scholars, who entered the land from Mali in the fourteenth century, as well the first royal convert which occurred, when Ali Yaji B. Tsamia, the Sarki or king of Kano converted in the fourteenth century, opened a new chapter in the land.

Three fashionable fallacies lie at the root of prevailing Igbo outlook to Lagos, the former federal capital. The first is that Lagos is a no-man’s land with no indigenous population.