Nigeria: A union of ethnic mistrust and hatred
By BEN OGU As already established, the problem of Nigeria is neither hunger nor kidnapping nor fuel. These are real problems, but only micro symptoms of the real underlying ailment. The real problem of Nigeria is the 1914 amalgamation that yoked a disparity of nations of incongruities and varying religious and cultural temperaments in a death […]
ONSHORE/OFFSHORE DICHOTOMY: A threat to Nigeria’s survival (1)
IN the matter of revenue allocation, especially as it relates to the re-institution of “onshore/offshore dichotomy,” it really begs belief that Northern political leaders won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The current attempt to re-visit the issue is ill-advised and insensitive to current national realities.
Kogi Guber: Acid test for Nigeria’s jurisprudence
AS Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja prepares to deliver judgement on the suit filed by Jibrin Isah (Echocho) seeking to validate the January 2011 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kogi State today, there are anxieties as to whether the judgement will not toe the path of the suit filed by the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timpriye Sylva against the PDP for excluding him from the second primary election of the party.
Iwu vs Jega regimes: How much progress for INEC ?
RECENT publications in the press about administrative lapses in the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has called to question, the public expectations ascribed to the Commission Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega.
Relevance of public relations in Nigeria’s crisis management
PUBLIC relations, PR, is a term that is widely misunderstood and misused to describe anything from selling to hosting, when in fact it is a very specific communications process.
Onshore/Offshore dichotomy and North’s dance of shame
NIGERIA, with its peculiarities and challenges never ceases to have in stock some amusing developments from time to time.
Demolition of Abonnema and other water front communities(2)
THE Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari claimed that the residents in the waterfront communities live demeaning life and that the government had decided to take the people away from such miserable condition of living. In fact, what the government is doing is to render those who live in slums completely homeless.
Ngige, hero @ 60
CALL him a man of destiny and circumstance or a man of honour, commitment, courage and a date with history at 60, it is never an exaggeration, because he had always been so right from his childhood.
Good night, Esther
ESTHER Ekene Jarikre (nee Ugboko) hailed from Ogwashiukwu in Delta State. But she was born and bred in Lagos and attended St Gregory Primary School, Falomo and Orile-Iganmu Secondary school.
The epiphany of prince of Nigeria
Our political journey is strewn with thorns and thistles leaving little hope that the vehicle of state would get us to the Promised Land anytime soon, according to Prince of Nigeria, Rev. Chris Okotie, in reaction to the present state of the nation.
The Jonathan they don’t know
They” in this piece refers to all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria, who seem to be in competition among themselves to pull down President Goodluck Jonathan.
