AS stated in my previous statement after the mass killing at St.Theresa on Christmas day and now the bloodiest attack in Kano with almost 200 deaths recorded so far by the Boko Haram group, we all must at this point move beyond mere condemnation to taking collective decisive steps as a people and collaborate with security agencies to bring this national shame and threat to our existence to a halt.

WHILE the killings of Southerners, Yorubas and Northern Christians continue unabated in the North, there is a recognizable systematic effort to locate the perpetrators among the victims or at least to obfuscate the source of culpability for the on-going mayhem.

BILLIONS of naira can be generated by the agency as regulatory allowance annually. This is done in many developed countries. The Legislation will fine-tune all necessary details, especially concerning the mode of collecting the regulatory allowance and the range of products the allowance would cover.

SINCE the enthronement in 1999 of General Olusegun Obasanjo as the President of Nigeria, there has been a steady drumbeat of violence against Christians by Hausa-Fulani Moslems in Northern Nigeria. Some historical data are in order here.

ENENCHE Okogwu, the Channels Television journalist, slain in the line of duty last Friday in Kano, was unwavering in his love for the country as encapsulated in his facebook page.

THE nation is, no doubt, smarting from a six-day (January 9-13 and 16) shut-down by the organised labour and civil society organisations due to the sudden removal of fuel subsidy which was announced by the Federal Government on January 1, this year, through the instrumentality of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

I ALSO recall that in preparation for Aburi Conference, some of them submitted memorandum. The position of the Eastern Region at that time was that there should be a loose confederation in the absence of true nationalism.

THE Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has joined his colleagues to announce the State budget proposals for 2012. This time around, the Governor has pledged commitment to dogged adherence to budgetary provisions, rather than pursue implementation of programmes that could be described as alien to the budgets.

THE proposed rally by the youths of Edo state, under the aegis of “Edo is in Safe Hands”, in support of Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s bid for a second term, does not appear to have gone down well with a few politicians in the state.

Many people in the world today are in the dark as to those who should properly be refer-red to as Jehovah’s Witnesses. The truth is that the title does not refer to every believer in Christ but to a select few. In the words of St. Paul; “And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.” (Heb-rews 5:4)

Nigeria’s easygoing president made a rare display of emotion when he addressed a private meeting on an arcane-sounding policy that would become one of the most consequential in his nation’s recent history.

It is a pity that an unimaginative and disconnected political elite wedded to obscene privileges and driven by decadent instinct of primitive accumulation has by reckless acts of omission and commission watered the ground on which the ordinary Nigerians are drenched in their own blood.

THE crisis over the removal of petroleum subsidy, which has just ended, though it threatened the basic amenities and comforts of life of all of us, especially the common people, is only a symptom of a much more basic and fundamental malaise that threatens the very life of our dear country.

AN interesting phase of Nigeria’s democratic experience began last week when the country rose in unison to protest the sudden and huge increase in the price of petrol. Organised labour, civil society organisations, traders, students, housewives and the masses of Nigerian people trooped to the streets to protest this policy of government capable of stifling […]

WHY did NBA not protest the recent  burning of churches and slaughtering of Christians in Damaturu, Madalla and Jos just to mention a few? Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, former Military President of Nigeria was quoted recently as saying that the present crisis in our country is caused by President Jonathan’s inexperience; that they (meaning  the Northern […]