Atiku’s Border Promise: Between political expediency and Nigeria’s national interest
By Okey IBEKE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to reopen Nigeria’s land borders if elected president in 2027 may appeal to traders and border communities who depend on cross-border commerce. But the promise raises a more important question: what exactly does he intend to reopen? The Federal Government has challenged the premise of the […]
NFA, Super Eagles and the code of conduct
The loss of Nigeria’s Super Eagles to France hit me real hard.
For some unexplainable reasons I had been filled with the optimism that the team were going to beat France in the round of 16 and for the first time make the quarter-final cut at the World Cup.
Will politics of fear help Nigeria?
NIGERIA has been ruled by soldiers for most of our years of independence, and so we had become conditioned to doing things in fear of our rulers. Due to this fear, we accept and submit to the whims and caprices of the ruler.
Are all religions the same?
THE Bishop of Hereford was once being patronised by a great lord who talked very proudly. “I never go to church,” boasted the lord. “Perhaps you have noticed that, Bishop?” “Yes, I have noticed it,” answered the Bishop gravely.
Much ado about roads in Abia
WHILE it is clear that the present government in Abia State will not and cannot tackle all the infrastructural decay it inherited in 2007 following several years of neglect by successive governments in the state, it is unfair for any one to allege or insinuate that most infrastructural developments, especially road construction and rehabilitation, have been concentrated in Umuahia the state capital.
The map of the future is here today
In the future, maps will not be documents you keep in the glovebox of your car or do battle with when hiking in the wind and rain, but living, breathing assistants that help you go about your day.
