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.
Dramatics in the Edo guber race
THE view in some quarters, in and out of Edo State, is that Governor Adams Oshiomhole is a performer. In some other quarters, the view is that he is a propagandist whose claim to having turned the State into a massive construction site is tenuous against the backdrop of verifiable dilapidated infrastructure on the ground across the State.
NIMET forecast: Clarion call to states and FG (2)
The alarm has gone off now. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency penultimate week sounded the warning that Nigerians should expect wet spells and floods especially in the Northern states of the country. The warning as contained in the 2012 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction also added that the deluge and the attendant flood will not limit only to the above states.
VON: Presidential rough rod?
ONE of the notorious quirks bedeviling governance in Nigeria is the tendency for what started out as a firm, decisive and desirable government action to unceremoniously fizzle out into blatant back-tracking or abrupt disinterest and lingering inaction, often witnessing a pathetic return to business as usual.
The substandard culture
A SYSTEM which community members prefer inferior values and products over others of superior quality; in which one’s own is looked down upon in preference to another’s, to artificiality and superficiality; in short, a practice which condemns the followers who are actually victims of their creation to self- depreciation is vanity and sure proof of emptiness: a substandard culture.
Venture Capitalism and Enterprise Revolution in NigeriaPart 2
Its large population and market size bestow tremendous potential on the Nigeria economy -Africa’s second largest and among the most rapidly growing. The country’s ambitious Vision 2020 programme and the UN Millennial Development Goals together represent considerable challenges in terms of economic revival.
Lagos, centre of excellence?
I visited Lagos lastyear from my base in Abuja, for the funeral ceremony of Mrs Florence Akinlemibola, the mother of my childhood friend. She lived to a ripe old age—so it was ‘owambe’ galore. We adorned our ‘aso ebis’ and boogied to juju live band music as we sent mama on her way to a glorious home-coming.
Rescuing the rescuers
CAN these rescuers be saved? I mean Edo Rescue 2012? It’s an emergency group suspected to be under the sponsorship and financial war chest of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for July 14, 2012 governorship elections, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere.
The out-of-the-box approach to oil Industry reforms
EVEN with the country’s incurable overdependence on oil, the commodity could have served Nigerians better if the proceeds had been better managed over the years to achieve better linkages and funding of national infrastructure.
Who is marginalising the Binis?
SENATOR Edobor Ehigie Uzamere, representing Edo South Senatorial District, struck the right note as he paid tribute to the ex-Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. The issues of marginalisation which Ojukwu fought for 40 years ago, he said, are still very much with us.
Four years of direct labour strategy in Akwa Ibom
ON assumption of office as the governor of Akwa Ibom State on May 29, 2007, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, who had been a member of the State Executive Council in the preceding administration for about five years, and had visited every nook and cranny of the State while serving as the Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, resolved to pursue development of the State with anger.
