By  Patrick Ugbe THE  media has been awash of late with the news of the delisting of Cross River State from the oil-producing states league and the ceding of 76 of its oil wells to Akwa Ibom State.

By Peter Ojo IF  God is a visible Being, Nigerians could have protested and asked Him: Why did you create Nigeria as a nation, with oil and so much resources to make her a leader of Black Africa and yet the people are going through untold hardship, even after ten years in the Fourth Republic […]

By Ben Nkemachor IT was June 12 a few days ago, marking the 16th year anniversary of an election that was deemed to be the freest and fairest in the history of  Nigerian democracy. To so many people this election was believed to be the only that could have heralded true democracy in Nigeria.

By Ifeatu Agbu GIVEN the controversial circumstance of its birth, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs was expected to prove the skeptics wrong by hitting the ground running. This was even more so when it was generally perceived as President Yar ‘Adua’s panacea for bringing lasting peace and development to the crisis-ridden oil-producing region. Unfortunately, […]

By Ahmed Mustapha THE new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was reported to have told the Senate that there was an urgent need for government to address “critical infrastructure” if we must effectively address the problem of economic development in Nigeria.