Can Agriculture Replace Crude? Experts reveal path to Nigeria’s export revival
By Cynthia Alo For more than five decades, crude oil has remained the dominant pillar of Nigeria’s economy, displacing agriculture from the position it once occupied as the country’s major source of revenue and foreign exchange. However, with the global shift towards cleaner energy and growing concerns over the sustainability of oil dependence, experts are […]
PDP: House divided against itself?
Has the end of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come? This is one question the bigwigs of the party including President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan would not dare give vent to.
STATE OF THE NATION: We must halt descent into anarchy
Several eminent Nigerians recently dissected the state of the nation and returned a grim verdict: Nigeria is on the brink of implosion and urgent actions are needed to halt the drift.
Tukur’s survival: Peace of the lipstick
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, survived an orchestrated campaign for his exit at the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting last Tuesday. But nearly everyone agrees the prevailing peace is a temporary one
NGF stalemate: It’s all about interest, 2015
Respite is still a long way off for embattled Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, suspended by the PDP for anti-party activities, having won the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) chairmanship election, defeating pro-Jonathan candidate, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau.
NGF is aberration, counter productive to Nigerian people – Akhaine
The crisis in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has worsened with two governors at daggers-drawn over who is legitimate chairman of the forum now factionalised. Its relevance to the development of the country’s democratic dispensation is scrutinised in this interview granted to Saturday Vanguard by an accomplished scholar, Dr. Sylvester Odion Akhaine, Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, LASU.
