‘PUT your money where your mouth is,” is a 19th century American adage that has and will continue to haunt Nigeria until we start matching our voices with our choices. Before we knew it four years have gone with the wind, and we are still complaining of poor electricity with just about 3000MW (around 1999 figures) from the system operator.

Sampson Chuks This piece is not intended to debase anyone but to point out the negative analogical effects of inhabiting in a mosquito/cockroach infested building on the one side and associating with certain person(s) or group of persons on the other side. In succinct and clearer explication, it tells us how associating with certain people […]

By Okanga Agila I least knew the concept of the book “ The Legend of Buratai,” authored Dr Abubakar Mohammed Sani would elicit excitingly robust attention. It is a fictional narrative of the daring escapades of Nigerian soldiers led by the irrepressible and craggy soldier, the incumbent Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur […]

IN this part of our world, we do not make things happen, rather, we react to happenings. The word ‘proactive’ seems to be foreign to us; that is why buildings that have been marked for demolition are collapsing at regular intervals in Lagos. Now that so many human lives have been wasted, due to the inaction of the people in authority, we are calling for investigation into what is clearly known to all. Money will be budgeted for a probe panel that would be set up and when all the hullabaloo has died down, we will be back to our usual ways and continue with our attitude of ‘I don’t care’.

IT was a gathering at a news-stand, with members united by their frustrations at the economic stagnation and injustice that the Nigerian state has meted out to the Niger Delta the despite human and economic contributions it has made since 1956 when oil was discovered in the area. Crude oil is the mainstay of the nation’s unity and identity; without it there would be no Nigeria. In order to sustain its rapacious greed and extravagance, the Nigerian state has, through brutal military occupation and civilian conquest, kept oil and gas-rich Niger Delta in perpetual subjugation. This has been going on for  years as government continues in its seeming quest to milk the area dry of its rich oil and gas reserves. This insensitivity is unexplainable even as cries of marginalisation persist. This is where Chief Edwin Clark became the main issue in his quest for a redress.