NIGERIA, by all standards, is a peculiar country. Here is a country in which many queer developments in civilized world are never seen as strange. The system of governance in this country is so inconsistent that discordant tunes from the same ministry or government department are sung from time to time only to throw the […]

THE administration of President Goodluck Jonathan appears determined to eradicate all forms of illegality in the Nigerian Water-ways – smuggling, hijacking, robbery and illegal oil bunkering. Towards this end the administration came up with a pragmatic maritime policy.

YAR’ADUA did not contemplate becoming Nigeria’s president. He didn’t dream it and it didn’t even flicker in his mind.
I remember vividly that day in 2006 (can’t remember the exact date now) when he was invited to a house in the Aso Rock Villa. Present were two governors apart from Yar’Adua, one presidential assistant and one business magnate.

COME April 11, 2012, Taraba State would be agog with what we have termed TAFEST ( Taraba State Festival of Arts and Culture). It is a maiden edition of the cultural fiesta as Jalingo comes alive with dancers, masquerades and arts from all the local government areas. It would be a four-day affair full of gaiety and fun.

IN Christianity, validly baptised Christians are configured to Christ in his three messianic functions or roles, namely: the Priestly, the Kingly and the Prophetic.

FOR the avoidance of doubt, the National Assembly comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate as presently constituted is part of the deep structural flaws and institutional anomaly that blights the Nigeria possibilities.

IT was, Tuesday, April 3. The staggering news hit the air. Olusegun Matthew Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo, former President and Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) had resigned his position on the BOT.

The Federal Inland Revenue and the Joint Tax Board have resolved to begin to prosecute tax defaulters. Before they come after you, here are some tips of what you should know about the amended tax law and how it affects you as a citizen, happy reading.

IT is pertinent to advise political leaders to cultivate the habit of generating raw data for analysis with respect to planning and setting up of priority since governance is a very serious business. Governance cannot be divorced from statistics, planning and priority setting so as to address the basic needs, yearnings and aspirations of the masses.

One would only be echoing the obvious by saying that the life and death, as well as the burial of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu were phenomenal. While Ojukwu’s life, right from the cradle, provides ample resources for the making of thrillers in the world of creative arts, and transcendent study in the field of socio- philosophy; his death and the activities immediately following it are not less eventful.

In his book “The Problem with Nigeria” the irrepressible literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe, states with brutal honesty that the problem with Nigeria “was a failure of leadership.”

The Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has registered his name in the nation’s judicial record books as the first administrator to provide a court within the prison premises to accelerate the dispensation of justice.

THE December 2010 Arab Spring has no doubt extended its wind of change to Syria, as the people resolutely demand for just one thing: the only constant thing in life, change. Syria had its turn of the social upheaval, Day of Rage, ravaging the Arab world by demanding for an end to autocracy and calling for a greater social, economic and political freedom from the hegemonic rule of its rulers.

IT is understandable why Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is hysterical. He is confronted with the monstrous reality of defeat in the scheduled July 14 governorship election in the State. And because his administration is on a quicksand, he has become desperate, seeking platforms and structures that will give support to his precarious re-election project.

THE immediate past administration oiled so many Irrevocable Standing Payment Order, ISPOs, running into N50billion and still counting. Ironically, all the projects which the former governor claimed to have tied to the ISPOs are in a sorry state. Prominent among them is the Kokidiete Koki Specialist Hospital at Opolo and Melford Okilo Memorial Hospital, both in Yenagoa which were abandoned by Sylva.