More insights on the Code of Conduct Public Officers
It is not for nothing that the Code of Conduct for Public Officers under the Nigerian Constitution restricted certain officers of state from maintaining...
Who is afraid of voluntary organisations?
Does the Nigerian parliament really think of voluntary organisations as a major source of all the problems besetting our country today? And do the...
Ebola and the fool in us
Like a bad dream, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is here with us in Nigeria. No need to restate the obvious, that a certain...
Lies, blatant lies and statistics
While we were up about doing so many other things, in the first half of this year, more than 500,000 people got new jobs...
The man in the mirror
One of the key points for me in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day Anniversary message was the call for national re-orientation among citizens. The...
The Shiite, the Army and human rights
The clash, recently, between the Nigerian Army and members of the Shiite Islamic sect in Kaduna brings to fore the issues of human rights,...
Of citizens and indigenes
Flowing from the views I expressed here last week about how anonymous Nigerians have become due to the poor data system to document citizens,...
Bumpy ride to the polls
Things are really spinning out of order in an annoying manner as we head towards the general elections in Nigeria this February. It is...
And Nigeria conquered Ebola
This past week, Nigeria had its moment in the sun as the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared it ‘Ebola-free’. It was a journey...
Transactional republic
Who else notices that many contacts with state agencies and their officials in Nigeria are always defined by transactions? These transactions cover the formal...
