By Daniel Nwakolu POLITICS has become a game in which those who participate use persuasion to win the hearts of the people so that they can also get their votes during election time. In order to realise that goal, politicians tell the people what they want to do differently to better their lives. The goals […]

 By Collins Chinwike A  QUALITY road network, being the most critical component of a national multimodal transportation plan, is the foundation of a thriving economy. Good roads link up the national socio-economic arteries, centres, and hubs. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is determined to link Nigerians everywhere by road and, […]

By Chima Christian FROM outright snatching of ballot boxes, to attempting to snatch the same ballot boxes through the courts, Nigeria has made substantial progress in election management and electoral law reforms since 1999. Yet, our politicians have never shed even an ounce of their desperation. At every turn of improvement, they quickly find a […]

By Braeyi Ekiye AT long last, the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been inaugurated. It is supposedly to take off with gusto, on a clean slate, and with a zero tolerance stance, bearing in mind the monumental corruption cases that have bedeviled the agency since its inception in 2000 and stalled […]

By Kenechukwu Obiezu IN the appalling arrangement of child marriage across Nigeria and the world, those who marry children are as guilty as those who marry off children in what is a grand but grievous theft. All those who get involved, including all those who consent either by their silence or compliance, are thieves of the worst […]