By Ikechukwu Agada IT was John F. Kennedy who said: “Things do not just happen, things are made to happen.” When most kings ascend the throne of their forefathers, they do not stir ripples in the waters for fear it could trigger a wave that might capsize their fledgling rule. In other words, they see […]

By Nnamdi Ojiego How does one explain a situation where huge amount of public fund was spent to provide critical infrastructures to the citizenry and in the end, what was supposedly meant to alleviate the sufferings of the masses, and ease life, turned out to be death traps to the people? The reasons are not […]

A story was told about the abolition of slavery in the United States of America in 1865. Many of the freed Black slaves did not know what to do with their freedom; some returned to their former masters, begging to remain with them and retaining the status quo; some others committed suicide because they could not cope with the challenges the new life created; while the rest of them trudged on.

AS Nigeria celebrates yet another anniversary of her independence from colonialism, it is necessary to continually examine aspects of our development and national life. As a philosopher once wrote, the unexamined life is not worth living.

For Nigeria, a country, largely structurally federal but functionally unitary, where development initiatives within any of its component parts is largely dictated by the disposition of the government of the day, the creation of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on June 5, 2000, by the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, signaled a major paradigm shift in the nature of interaction between the Federal Government and the Niger Delta region and its people.