The NYSC Foundation Scam: Beyond Impunity?
The recent scandal involving the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a private entity named NYSC Foundation has effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s biggest challenge is, perhaps, not…
St. Stella Oduah: Igbo Hubris And The Canonisation of Corruption
Leave Stella Oduah alone -GroupStella Oduah, the glorified ogre who runs the aviation ministry has finally bombed the system and fouled the polity with a disturbing hubris of narrow egotistical…
Editorial: Hiccup in Privatization of PHCN Assets
As Namadi Sambo, the Vice President and Chairman, National Council on Privatization (NCP), began Thursday, to formally hand over the physical assets of all 14 PHCN successor-companies to their new…
Aviation: The Armoured Car Politics
The armoured car scandal at Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA is still raising dust and spreading rapidly at an unprecedented scale. The vigour with which proponents of the ‘Sack Oduah’…
Editorial: Bizarre Court Verdict on Ibori’s $15m Loot
The controversial court judgment last Friday, that the $15 million bribe allegedly given by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, to former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Nuhu…
Do We Need A National Conference? No, We Do!
…it is imperative that we arm ourselves and our people with a genuine revolutionary culture and a discipline and invincible revolutionary organisation, unshakeably committed to the principles of social justice…
What’s This Much Talked About Agreement With ASUU?
Prologue “Listening to the agreement that was signed by the Federal Government as Comrade Uche Chukwumerije read out, I was really wondering whether this was signed or it was just…
Lekki-Epe Expressway Concession Right Buy Back; A Badly Put Together Cover-Up
The Lekki-Epe express road concession project may yet to have its fair share of accolades as well as disapproval. The recently announced plan to re-acquire the concession rights on the…
Editorial: Patience Jonathan’s Controversial Award
It appears there is no limit to the odium Nigerians would endure in the hands of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; again in the news for the wrong reasons.…
Of Jonathan’s timid reforms and Odimegwu’s untimely exit
Sometime last month when the issues at the Nigerian Population Commission started gathering momentum, I hurried into Abuja and tried to meet with the now former Chairman Eze Festus Odimegwu.…