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 […]
Giving teeth to the Cabotage Law
THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.
Of Boko Haram, Ali Sheriff and the pen judges
Everybody wants to comment about the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, but most people are uninformed about the origin, nature, manifestations or even the metamorphosis of a hitherto peaceful ideological sect into a violent insurgency.
Edo 2007: Oshiomhole vindicates Osunbor
ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.
The West’s Woods-ward walk!
ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.
Petroleum deregulation: Timely intervention
IT is heart warming that on the matter of deregulation of key sectors of the economy, there are references. A simple case is the telecommunication industry. Today, the country is better for it as every Nigerian now has access to telephony.
Underestimating social and security threats of climate change
Since his inauguration on May 29 this year, President Goodluck Jonathan has kept his election promise of “give me your vote, I will not disappoint you.” Curiously, his keeping the promise does not manifest in the expected delivery of policies with integrity, rather it manifests in not giving Nigerians what could be “globally” adjudged as sound policies and actions.
Yar’Adua and Oshiomhole’s questionable claims
AT the launch of Segun Adeniyi’s Power, Politics and Death, Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole displayed his penchant for boastful, irrational and incoherent outburst in its most insipid form. It was thus natural to ask: “what is wrong with Oshiomhole?”
Election Petitions: Between the Judiciary and Constitution(2)
WITH these judicial precedents, it is surprising to many Nigerians where the justices of some Appeal Courts and Tribunal derived the power to order for retrial of election cases afresh after 180 days and assuming jurisdictions to hear such cases after the stipulated and specified days for election cases in the 1999 constitution as amended.
The Niger Delta question: An Ijaw struggle? (1)
“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burnet ‘(Isaiah 62; 1)’
The Abia security incentive
THERE is no gainsaying that the security situation in Abia State is one of the best in the country today going by reports available across the country.
