Why prosperity governance and management challenges the foundations of development
By Victor-Bandele Dada Humanity has accumulated extraordinary knowledge. It has mastered technologies that transform agriculture, medicine, industry, communication and transportation. It can mobilise enormous financial resources, manipulate materials at molecular levels and connect distant populations instantaneously. Yet hunger persists beside agricultural abundance. Unemployment coexists with unmet human needs. Resource-rich communities remain impoverished, while governments struggle […]
Niger Delta Region: What went wrong?
With the advent of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, the Niger-Delta region witnessed violent agitation for resource control and youth restiveness. This ushered in an era of insecurity plagued with kidnapping and bombings of oil installation. The nation’s economy was badly affected and this prompted the “carrot and stick approach” by former President Chief Olusegun […]
Mid-term: Projects galore, thumbs up for Ugwuanyi in Enugu
It has been a busy week for the government and people of Enugu State following avalanche of activities heralding the second year anniversary in office of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on May 29, 2017.
‘How can you talk about Biafra at 50 without Biafrans like Nnamdi Kanu’
I believe that it is not only the height of naivety but also deeply insulting to say that the way to stop the Biafran agitation is to offer the Igbo cake.
Six wasted years: Weep not for Jonathan
Jonathan admitted that he had done very little for the Niger Delta
Herdsmen: Removal of the head spirits
Soon Nigeria will be a nation of terrorists if nothing desperate is done to stem the brewing ugly, dangerous and wicked marriage of Boko haram and Fulani terrorists
