Mixed bag of Nigeria’s human rights efforts amid challenges
Nigeria’s efforts at ensuring human rights is beset with a variety of problems. They range from a poverty of noble values among politicians, contradictions...
Nigerians sketch ideas to overcome ‘temporary austerity’
"Austerity measures”. Nigerians are familiar with those words. They have grappled with austerity during past regimes. The first one was in 1982 when President...
Strike over, but Apapa Port remains volatile with arbitrary charges
Anthony Enebili, a clearing and forwarding agent whose five containers were trapped in Apapa Port on Monday, November 3, 2014, is still full of...
Summit harks back to Zik, urges African leaders to emulate his virtues
One could mistake the flyers and invitation cards distributed by organisers of the discourse on leadership values in Nigeria and Africa for one of...
In Ogun, the die is cast
With former Ogun State Governor, Olusegun Osoba, eventually dumping APC for new SDP, the final battle line for 2015 may have finally been drawn...
The slow, wearisome journey to poverty eradication
The world is in a flux. Prosperity spreads in every corner. Thanks to the liberal market reforms of the 1990s spearheaded by the United...
As Ndoma-Egba, Owan-Enoh battle for Cross River Central
Assistant Politics Editor, DANIEL KANU, takes a look at the battle for the Cross River Central senatorial seat between Victor Ndoma-Egba and John Owan-Enoh.
There...
Our votes don’t count. So, we won’t bother to vote, say young Nigerians
Wole Soyinka lamented three decades ago about his “wasted generation”. Soyinka has long taken up social activism to galvanise his compatriots for the greater...
Jailed at Kirikiri, but hopeful with Onesimus
Prison is a nightmare that gets worse when the word Kirikiri is added. The facility in Apapa, Lagos hosts hardened criminals, enemies of the...
Igbozurume: Plinth for Igbo rediscovery
Assistant Editor (South East), CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA, takes a look at an emerging Igbo socio-cultural umbrella, Igbozurume, which has been described as a move for...
