Rejoinder: Bayelsa and the many lies of Sahareporters
Internet journalism has been hailed as a welcome development in information dissemination. It is fast and conveys the news to the readers quickly to be abreast of developments around the…
Nigeria’s Hostile Investment Climate
The latest report on the Nigerian investment climate indicting government for its failure to provide a conducive environment for economic development is hardly surprising. It confirms the degeneration that has…
Gov Amaechis Plane: Where is the Governor’s Immunity?
Totalitarianism is progressively returning to the country in an excuse of fighting Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State. Nigerians are standing and watching with self-pity, oblivious that such pity itself…
2015 and Jonathan’s Ostrich game
Uche Igwe Ostriches are the largest, flightless living species of birds that are found in Africa. They weigh from 63 – 145 kilograms and are 6 – 9 ft tall.…
Achebe: Where Are The Igbo?
When Albert Chinualumogu Achebe departed this sinful world on the 21st of March 2013, not many mourned simply because his was a life well spent. When a man of the…
A Date With Destiny
In 1999 when President Olusegun Obasanjo came to power he met 1.5 billion USD in our foreign reserves. Yet by the time he left office in 2007, eight years later,…
President Jonathan and the US State Department Report
The levity with which President Goodluck Jonathan derisively dismissed the latest US State Department report on corruption and human rights which rated Nigeria poorly, is indeed, not the most appropriate…
Nigerian Activists and Politics: How Serious?
Sometimes in 2004, at an interactive session with Mr. Rodrigo de Rato, then visiting Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), a member of President Obasanjo’s economic team who was…
Governor Okorocha’s Car Accident: Matters Arising
Unfortunate as it was, the accident last Friday, involving Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha raises fundamental issues of governance; not the least of which are the leadership question, propriety of…
Jonathan vs Amaechi: Judiciary in a show of shame
Nigeria’s judiciary suffered a major setback in its determination at ensuring fair dispensation of justice on Monday April 15 in Abuja High Court. Justice Ishaq Bello in what is widely…