The 9/11 that never happened: What Britain saved the world from
TWENTY-FIVE years after the planes struck America, the most frightening part of 9/11 may not be what the terrorists achieved, but what they originally intended to achieve - and what intelligence agencies have since learned to prevent.
INEC, APGA and leadership in Igboland
THE Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, INEC, as an election management body, must show consistent leadership vision, transparency and due process not only in its management of Nigeria’s “electoral matters but also both in the registration of new political parties and in the establishment of internal party democracy within Nigeria” political parties.
El-Rufai: Too small to be president (2)
In his exclusive piece published online and titled: “Buhari’s burning rhetoric” available at http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/opinion/opinion/8133-buharis-burning-rhetoric, Yawe wrote: “Much later, I learnt that President Shehu Shagari, a man of mild manners was very angry. The troops had been moved into Chad without consent from him as the Commander-in-Chief.
Task before Abuja Metropolitan Council
THE Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (formerly AMMA) came into being in year 2005 as a response to the increasing development challenges besetting an evolving federal capital such as Abuja. AMMC is comprised of five departments namely: Parks and Recreation; Urban Affairs, Development Control, Facilities Maintenance and Management; Administration and Finance.
Between the Federal Govt and airline operators
I HAVE taken pains and indeed strong courage to call the attention of government to the misguidance of the NCAA Director General on the ethics of practice in the travel and tourism industry, especially NCAA’s repeated misguidance of government as to the truth and facts of existing factors surrounding the legitimacy of their claims over international airlines.
Where are the cabals?
EVENTS in the country in the last 10 years are gradually rewriting our story as a nation. Like a play that has a good beginning but ends on humorous note without any constructive ending, issues relating to corruption, probe and other social crisis always start well but fizzle out earlier than expected.
Raising Abia from bended knees
THERE comes a time in the history of a people when God blesses them with a leader with a particular mandate. For the people of Abia, aptly called God’s Own State, there is every indication that the supplication of the people unto their Maker for a divine lifting of afflicted yoke caused by long period of political and economic slavery has attracted divine intervention.
The battle over GSM base stations, masts
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has initiated a drive aimed at attacking network service providers and shutting down base stations deemed to have been erected in contravention of its standards as it regards environmental safety.
Language, Literature and Decolonization of Nigeria’s Political Culture (1)
Every literature that exists does so because there is in existence a language in which it is created or expressed. In other words, if there is no literature and there never can be literature in the absence of language. And so long as there are native speakers of any language, the language will thrive and live with or without the existence of creative or imaginative or realistic literature.
Insecurity: Appraising Azazi’s command-control prognosis
Little could General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd) have known when he let loose a stereotypically military missive in Asaba last month that he was opening the floodgates on deep running waters, with subterranean undercurrents.
The beauty of silence
SOCCER, also known as football is certainly the most popular sport in the world as more than 60 percent of the world’s population tune in (both radio and television) during major World Cup competitions.
