Ticking Time Bomb: How ageing pipelines are bleeding Niger Delta, Nigeria dry
The 28-inch Trans-Forcados Pipeline at the Kantu-Odidi axis has been bleeding, and the people of Odidi have been living in an open gas chamber
Press,vanguard of our freedom
IT can be rightly claimed that the media, especially the print, is the foremost founding father of this
nation, not the least because those who fought for Nigeria’s independence were either journalists or used the instrument of the press rather than armed struggle as other decolonising entities like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria Mozambique and Angola.
Nigeria@ 50: Economy, Crawling At 50
THE Nigerian economy can be aptly described as an interlocking set of vicious circles that perpetuate economic stagnation and rural poverty which various governments since 1960 have been struggling to break away from without success. One of these circles involves the savings – investment gap.
Malaria: Killer at large
If there were to be a contest between all known deadly human disorders, malaria would qualify to compete in the heavyweight championship category because it possesses the appropriate credentials.
The Road To Consensus Candidacy: How the North wants to choose a candidate
The story starts with President Goodluck Jonathan. His decision to contest the 2011 presidential elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was the catalyst. They waited patiently – leaders of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, that is. Once they were certain that President Jonathan was going to make his public declaration to contest, they swung into action.
2011: INEC dilemma and Constitutional roadmap?
NIGERIA’S 1999 Constitution (as amended) is alive. The Electoral Act 2010 takes its bearing from it. That notwithstanding some lawyers plead that the Constitution is inchoate in their prayers before the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
