Ann Kio Briggs’ minority report
With the atmosphere incendiary, the issue facing the Nigerian project is unambiguous. This is how to achieve peaceful co-existence in one country. This is...
The curse of oil and crude metering
The opportunity cost of not knowing how much crude oil we are actually extracting is staggering. Added to the entrenched burden of crude oil...
Call their bluff!
With gallows humour the despicable Boko Haram terrorists are now demanding negotiation with the federal government over the release of our girls from Chibok....
Beyond the “mutiny”
We are in support of the just constituted military board of enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the conduct of soldiers who purportedly fired shots...
Behold an impotent nation
To great relief President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted the offer from a host of nations to assist in tracing the kidnapped Chibok girls.
The acceptance...
Re-activating the grazing reserves
Everyone is now waking up to reality. With pitched battles between “Fulani herdsmen” and local communities leading to loss of lives as well as...
The position of the ‘North’
A 47-page document marked “Key issues before the Northern delegates to the 2014 National Conference” was circulated at the National Conference last week. Subtitled...
Insecurity: Nyako’s misguided intervention
To whom much has been given, a whole lot is to be expected. This is why the intemperate intervention by the Governor of Adamawa...
A republic ill at ease
TheNiche comes out at a time when the Republic is profoundly at a critical juncture. It is also ill at ease with itself. Of...
Voting impasse at the conference
The position must be in favour of accepting two-thirds as the needed majority needed to pass motions at the national conference. Such a cogitation...
