By Jerry Asiegbu THE need to clean up Lagos and make it worthy of its status as the seat of the government of the federation had long been stressed before Gen. Ibrahim Babanginda moved the nation’s capital to Abuja in 1992.

By  Patrick Ugbe THE  media has been awash of late with the news of the delisting of Cross River State from the oil-producing states league and the ceding of 76 of its oil wells to Akwa Ibom State.

By Peter Ojo IF  God is a visible Being, Nigerians could have protested and asked Him: Why did you create Nigeria as a nation, with oil and so much resources to make her a leader of Black Africa and yet the people are going through untold hardship, even after ten years in the Fourth Republic […]

By Ben Nkemachor IT was June 12 a few days ago, marking the 16th year anniversary of an election that was deemed to be the freest and fairest in the history of  Nigerian democracy. To so many people this election was believed to be the only that could have heralded true democracy in Nigeria.

By Ifeatu Agbu GIVEN the controversial circumstance of its birth, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs was expected to prove the skeptics wrong by hitting the ground running. This was even more so when it was generally perceived as President Yar ‘Adua’s panacea for bringing lasting peace and development to the crisis-ridden oil-producing region. Unfortunately, […]

By Ahmed Mustapha THE new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was reported to have told the Senate that there was an urgent need for government to address “critical infrastructure” if we must effectively address the problem of economic development in Nigeria.

By  David  Ihalo IT is not so difficult to put one’s fingers on the objective reason for the clandestine attempts by people from some quarters to denigrate the achievements of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State.

By  Afam Ofomata EMEKA ETIABA has been very busy with his state-wide consultations involving all stakeholders who are now beginning to accept his message of delivering a befitting state capital in Awka, committing our security votes towards fighting crime in the state, overhaul of primary and secondary health care in the state, returning back to […]

By Bose Adebayo A commercial bus took off from Oshodi heading for Tollgate. On getting to Ikeja, it was stopped by met a team of police men who demanded for the usual N100 settlement, from the driver who promptly paid. This was repeated when the bus approached Abule-Egba as the driver once again parted with […]

His humble mien, simplicity, listening disposition, non-combative body language and above all practice of his servant leadership mantra, soon disarmed many hitherto disillusioned stakeholders and endeared him to others.

From public statement it was learnt that the government asked the Nwaka committee to come up with a comprehensive list of eminent people of Delta across the 25 local government areas, who will mentor schools in their respective communities.

By Henry Ayanruoh DURING  one of the religious crises in the North, one of our national leaders asked: How did we become so careless and so uncaring to have allowed our senses to be so insidiously deadened by the rhetorics of short-sighted little men who make us accept as normal carnage and exploitation which once […]

By Gab Ejuwa LEADERS  are revered throughout the world. One obvious reason is that as senior citizens, they are believed to be richly endowed with wisdom; people who possess  the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth  without fear or favour; people who are impartial and incorruptible; people whose conducts are above […]

By Ignatius Orisewezie THIS game called politics is a race for popularity in which citizens enthrone those they can trust. And the trust is earned like the father’s love. As Robert Frost said, you have to earn and deserve your father’s love but not that of your mother.

By  Suffy Ainofenokhai I AM also bold to affirm with absolute sincerity and conviction that the 2007 and 2009 elections are the most consistent, the clearest and the fairest ever conducted in this terrain.