The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the BRING BACK OUR GIRLS campaign on internet, finally met its match in Nigeria to inaugurate the week of September 11 – most appropriately. Shekau’s danse macabre was surpassed by the unfurling of a political campaign banner that defiled an entry point into Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. That banner read: BRING BACK JONATHAN 2015.

The financial crisis during 2008 and 2009, and its devastating effects on the socio-economic conditions of many people have made bankers the least trusted of all trades in Europe and North America. Statistics also show that sometimes unjustified salaries and bonuses are contributory factors to banking’s image problem.

EVIL forest embodies frighteningly bizarre connotations. Evil forest is usually given to strangers to claim and inhabit on the conviction that it will consume them and rubblish their arrogance. This is the conviction upon which the Umuofians gave the white missionaries the evil forest to occupy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

September 11, 2001 will not be easily forgotten by Americans and the entire world. It marked the longest most tragic day in the history of mankind (as at then), with a recorded death of about 3,000 people.

THE matter of who will be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the gubernatorial election in Rivers state in 2015 is certainly going to be a major headache for the party because any mistake in this critical exercise can be catastrophic, given the fact that the state is currently under the rule of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with all the advantages that go with incumbency.

At the just concluded National Conference on Committee for Foreign Policy disclosed that there are over 16,300 Nigerians in foreign jailhouses for drug related offences. This figure, as announced by a delegate, the former Minister of Education, Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike, quoting the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), was not such a suprise to Nigerians at home and abroad. Of this number, we were told 3,719 Nigerian women are in Canada alone.

By Kieran Mervyn The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is globally recognised as a scholastic degree bolstered by workplace experience, and is known for attracting executive-level managers and professionals (or those who aspire to be). Now, a new breed of entrepreneurial MBA student is changing the programme profile traditionally associated with C-suite students. This raises […]

I was holidaying in Port Harcourt in 1962 when I had the rarest of opportunities to meet the great soccer legend, Albert Onyeanwuna at the Port Harcourt City stadium.

In accosting the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who was the index (first) case of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country, the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh prevented a national catastrophe, left a permanent mark on society, and solidified her legacy as a courageous and patriotic heroine.

Before the Ebola crisis, I never heard of Dr Ameyo Adadevoh (The Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at First Consultant Hospital). However with her tragic death at the hands of Ebola, I have heard and read more about her. From close family friends who had the opportunity and privilege of knowing her, she was a good person and very committed to her duty and country. Given the way she stopped Patrick Sawyer from leaving the hospital upon discovery that he had Ebola, her good-heartedness, patriotism and desire to protect humanity are unquestionable. Most unfortunately and sad, she died from her genuine efforts to protect us Nigerians.  

This is where things started to fall apart between Boko Haram and politicians/government officials in Borno State. Available reports point to some sort of disagreement between the group and some politicians following the 2007 elections (e.g. over monthly stipends payable to the group). This was followed by recurring clashes between Boko Haram members and the local police, especially over police harassment and arrest of Boko Haram members.

IN 2010, all the telecom providers forced Nigerians into compulsory registration of all mobile phone sim cards, using the media. Supported by the National Communications Commission, NCC, Nigerians were forced to register their sim cards. It kicked off with long queues everywhere and quickly they commissioned some agents to register sims, in order to reduce the pressure in the registration fees quickly. These agents still dot street corners across the country today.

THE only way Nigerian politics can be cleansed and developed is when its ugly sides are revealed and those who adulterate it are exposed and punished. Very often, that exposure is done in a dog-eat-dog manner.

NIGERIANS are agreed that the nation has made some progress since 1999 in spite of what is happening to us presently as a nation. But the progress that has so far been made falls short of the general expectation of the masses who had in the 1980s and 1990s looked forward with eagerness to the enthronement of a democratic dispensation.

THE fear entertained in 1999 was that the military, having been in power for the last 29 out of the 33 years, would still continue to imperially dominate the political setting in the post military era which is supposed to be a full civilian government.