The unidentified problem of Nigeria: From forced migration to AUTOSUCOM Revolution (I)
By Victor-Bandele Dada For more than six decades, Nigeria has debated its problems without ever adequately identifying the problem beneath the problems. Economists have diagnosed fiscal instability. Political scientists have examined institutional weakness. Sociologists have studied ethnic and religious fragmentation. Development specialists have focused on poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and human capital. Security analysts have examined […]
Paying get-well visits to Buhari in London now Nigeria’s most lucrative industry – Reno
Ladies and gentlemen, of course you are no doubt aware that the most lucrative industry in Nigeria at the moment is paying get well visits to President Muhammadu Buhari in London.
Calabar Tank Farm Explosion:The handwriting on the wall
It was Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of America that once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. According to Murphy’s Law, “anything that may go wrong will”.
Federal High Court judges: Why the delay?
Most State Governors, in exercise of their privilege of Prerogative of Mercy go round the various prisons in the country from time to time and grant pardon to some inmates who are serving various terms of imprisonment, some awaiting trial for various offences.
Of disasters, natural and artificial
In recent weeks, the city of Lagos has been all but taken over by water. Floods accumulated from days of rainfall have found their way into places they ought not to be- mostly inside people’s residences. Kilometers of roads have been washed away, returning the nightmares to the affected roads. Electricity supply has been cut off in several places, resulting in unforeseen human misery- a tad worse than that with which we have become familiar.
That disgraceful parade in Ebonyi
The rusty community of Amauzu Nkpoghoro village in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was in the news last week for the wrong reason.
