Opinion

A quick glance at my international passport was what I needed to reassure myself that Kafanchan, a rusty and sleepy town in the Southern part of Kaduna State remains my place of birth on record. Cumulatively I spent about twenty...

There’s this apocryphal story that a friend of mine, an exiled Zimbabwean writer, told me a few years ago. It went like this. President Robert Mugabe had sent one of his ministers to represent him at an important state...

This exposition on the state of the nation is a quarterly review I have endeavoured to embark upon as a responsive citizen concerned about events as they unfold in the nation. Among the issues covered in this issue are...

In few days time, the government and people of Bayelsa state will gather to celebrate 17 years of the existence of our beloved state. As we look into the future with hope, it also a time of a brief...

This is the continuation of part two of our Public Information on how less than 5% of Nigerians continued to corner and pocket close to 80% of her public finances on annual basis especially in areas of spurious allowances...

Details of Statements:: 1; Ribadu’s Nigerian statement: My name is Nuhu Ribadu and I am Chairman of Economic and Fiancial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria. Sometime within the month of April 2007 Mr. James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta...

"You do not spit it out, and yet you do not swallow it". Addressing the 54th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economic Summit that held in Abuja last week, president Goodluck Jonathan blamed the level of corruption in Nigeria...

Over 161 bodies have been recovered in a Benisheik attack staged by Boko Haram last week, on a highway between Maiduguri and Damaturu and another highway attack from Maiduguri to Bamboa. The terrorists came in 20 pickup trucks with...

It has become the stereotypical for Nigerian commentators to deride the nation’s public universities, especially the infrastructural levels of these citadels of learning. Most of the time, these commentaries are not based on the facts on ground at the...

This is the continuation of our Public Information, dated 21st of September, 2013, on the smokescreen nature of the ASUU-Federal Government Agreement of 2009 as a solution to the battered standard of higher education in Nigeria. Our main concern...