By Chiedu Uche Okoye IS Nigeria not a British contraption? During the colonial era, it was Lord Frederick Lugard, a one-time governor-general of Nigeria, who cobbled Nigeria’s northern and southern protectorates together for administrative convenience. And his mistress, Miss Flora Shaw, christened the place Nigeria. Nigeria, a British creation, is a disparate political and ethnic […]

By Sunny Ikhioya IT is said that a society that opens itself to visitors, opens up for progress and development. We have seen this in such cities like Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Ibadan and Jos before the civil strife, compared to other cities in Nigeria. In foreign lands, the United States of America readily comes […]

By Jerome-Mario Utomi THE recent news report that the Okordia-Rumekpe 14-inch crude truck line operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, discharged some 213 barrels of crude oil into Ikarama community in Bayelsa, has again brought to our consciousness that though Nigeria prides itself as the giant of Africa and the most populous Black nation […]

By Sunny Ikhioya  It still beats one’s imagination to realise that a government that rode on the back of total press freedom has turned full circle to take actions that undermine same. Who would have imagined that a government which has in its fold seasoned and eminent media personalities will be hounding the press. A […]

By Sagir Ibrahim AROUND October 1929, values of stocks in the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, market dropped to an unprecedented record level. Within three days, many investors lost about $5 billion. Towards the end of the year, major banks and investment companies lost about US$11billion. That loss led to closing of factories and laying […]