VIRTUALLY all private owned media houses, both print and electronic, with national coverage are owned by Southerners.The Guardian,Vanguard,ThisDay,Independent Daily, Ait, Channels, Silverbird television stations, to mention but a few, are owned by people from Niger Delta, particularly Delta and Edo states that were hitherto part of South West Nigeria under Awolowo’s exemplary leadership.

THREE weeks ago I was at a meeting in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the biennial African Feminist Forum, which is convened by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), an Africa-wide grant-making foundation for African women which I co-founded twelve years ago.

FOR an instance, many contributors lack the knowledge that expatriates in certain areas are exempted from quota requirement. This includes those operating in the various free trade zones in the country such as the Export Processing Zone, Calabar; Oil & Gas Free Zone, Onne; Kano Free Trade Zone; Lekki Free Trade Zone and the Export Processing Zone, Snake Island, Lagos. Those who are engaged by government establishments are equally exempted from expatriate quota.

GROUP  mobilisation using ethnic, religious or class sentiments is a strategy which political elites in Nigeria often use to gain the support of the dominated citizens to give them political legitimacy. They often do this to gain the support of their constructed identity group or sub-groups, irrespective of the consequences to others. Hence, many politicians […]

WHEN the Peter Obi administration assumed office in the year 2006, its programme of action was tagged Anambra Integrated Development Strategy, ANIDS.