IT is trite to say that the issue of the planned deregulation of the down stream oil sector has generated controversy and even pitched proponents and opponents of the intended policy against each other. And while one appreciates some of the fears of opponents of the policy, one equally discovers that…

FOR some time now, the problem of insecurity which used to be one of the lowest in the hierarchy of social problems facing this country seems to have assumed alarming proportions since the end of the Nigerian civil war which ended in 1970.

THERE is enough evidence to empirically establish that Nigerian football is in disarray. For the first time since 1986, Nigeria has failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals.

THE mass killings of Christian faithful on Christmas day of all days when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, the symbol of Christiandom in the name of religious advocacy by the Boko Haram group is not only an action that must be condemned by all peace loving people, who value human life and civilized conduct but constitute a major threat to peaceful co-existence of people of different religious callings in Nigeria.

IT is likely that until about three months ago one had not heard the name Wael Ghonim. Ghonim was Head of the marketing division of Google in the Middle East and North Africa based in Dubai. But it was not as a Google executive that the Egyptian made name for himself and became world-famous.

THE Recent restoration of almost all the primary schools in Anambra State to the churches, their rightful owners, is bound to restore sound educational system, marked by enviable moral standards.

MY study and research of Nigerian history made it possible for me to extricate myself from the lingering grip of the Biafran propaganda, which still retains a powerful hold on most Igbo minds. It gave me a new perspective on Biafra and the civil war, a perspective, remarkably different from my earlier viewpoint shaped through the distorted prisms of the Biafran propaganda.

THE clock is ticking fast and Bayelsans are already counting down to the governorship elections scheduled for February 11, 2012. The political bedlam that followed Governor Timpre Sylva’s disqualification from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries is fast fading out.

The Panama Canal, a 77-kilometre Ship Canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, is one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. From what I read recently, the builders of the canal faced enormous obstacles of geography, climate and disease.

Recently, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned some former governors, including Otunba Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, for allegedly misappropriating public funds while in office.

AFTER the deafening chorus of opposition that greeted the recent proposal by the Federal Government to deregulate the down stream sector of the petroleum industry, the truth is gradually emerging about the staggering and mind-boggling cost of sustaining fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria.

THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.

Everybody wants to comment about the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, but most people are uninformed about the origin, nature, manifestations or even the metamorphosis of a hitherto peaceful ideological sect into a violent insurgency.

ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.

ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.