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Global Economic Crisis: Nigeria and National Strategy

The recent $850 billion bail-out plan by the Bush Administration indicates that the economic principles that we all crammed in high school are no longer tenable in a world where the excessive consumption patterns of specific economic blocs create panic and throws quaint economic theory in the bin...

Solving Nigeria’s Energy Crisis

Oil prices are not going up and down because wars and threats of wars are on the news.  Nations of the world have done their arithmetic and come up with undeniable proof that the oil wells around oil-dependent areas like Nigeria will soon dry up...

The Poetry Of Man And Machines

We should take a cue from Jesus Christ who is the greatest example of soul friendship. He was always available, always listening, always ready to forgive, yet He feels the pain of rejection. Who knows how many beautiful poems we've failed to hear...

Latin America And Africa: The Need For Closer Cooperation

Critics and dissenters may be right in terms of some of the predatory nature of international trade and globalization, but it is hard to ignore the fact that trade and globalization is the source of much of the world’s prosperity...

As Democracy Is Backtracked In Nigeria!

It is impossible to control government if you have no idea of what government is.  Today what people generally see as “Government” in Nigeria is not a government at all...

Still In The Dark About HIV/AIDS

Against the backdrop of the alarming increase in the number of Nigerians contracting HIV,  investigations reveal that a high percentage of the population still hold on to age-old beliefs on contracting the deadly disease…

EFCC Annual Report: Olumhense Got It Wrong

It is not a common occurrence in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to respond to every unfriendly report about the anti-graft agency or its leadership...

Nigeria, After the Beijing Games

Its two months after the Beijing Olympics and a few weeks after the Paralympics and the Nigerian Government has not made any comments on the athlete’s performance nor organized a reception for them...

Tobacco Smuggling: The Seme And Cotonou Connections

Fazed by mounting pressures locally and internationally, British American tobacco, BAT, now somewhat relies on smugglers to continue to flood the market with their wares...

Rivers And A State Once Caught Up By Ruling Thieves!

I have conducted numerous investigations to uncover failing government programs and how to fix the problems, including recovering...

Nigerians Giving Birth and Dying Abroad

There are no known studies or data set to enable one make a definite pronouncement on the issue of Nigerians who go abroad to give birth or those who go overseas to seek medical care - only to die in transit or die in foreign hospitals...

Resisting the Politics of Paranoia: President Yar’adua’s Challenge

One of the tell-tale signs of a government at odds with itself is the outbreak of paranoia within its ranks. Outbreaks of this nature often infect the apparatus and body of government, to such an extent, that its different parts become suspicious of one another...

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True Heroes of Africa

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization...

Independence Day: A Historical Journey To Nigeria’s Creation (2)

Lugard’s appointment to the Governorship of Hong Kong kept him from Nigeria for six years. During that time, the conviction grew in England that it was necessary to amalgamate Southern and Northern Nigeria into one great Protectorate...

The Moral Regeneration of the Inner Man

As I talk with Christian friends, I sense a degree of discontent with the seeming inability of the Church to impact society's morals in a more positive sense. It's as though Christians are increasingly getting weaker and spiritually bland...

Nigeria: The Health, Economic and Social Menace of Smoking

From available information, it appears as if the Federal Capital Territory remains the only part of Nigeria conscious of the harmful effects of smoking. The recent prohibition of smoking in public places remains a commendable step but actions are still necessary to combat the monster...

Dangerous Ships!

Arrested and abandoned ships, which are rotting away at the defence jetty at CMS, pose an environmental as well as health risk to the Nigerians who conduct their businesses at that vicinity...

Nigerian Men Killing Their Wives - Calling A Spade What It Is (Part 2)

A woman who cannot buy even a pant and a bra on her own back home in Nigeria has been brought to America.  She don open eye as my Warri people will say. She has now moved from one extreme state to another – a once innocent lady has now grown wings all of a sudden. A lipstick has now been put on a pig...

The World At A Tipping Point!

Some topics covered at a two-month ‘Environmental Reporting’ training in Berlin, Germany, organised by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ, of InWent, reveals that the world  is at a’ tipping point’, an irreversible point of climate change...


Liberation Theology And The Nigerian Christian Community (part 1)

What these Pentecostal churches do these days is simply to spread fear and panic in the minds of their vulnerable followers. They defend the rotten ‘social order’ in Nigeria through their acts of omission and commission which in turn helps to literally kill and dampen the probing and critical mindset of the oppressed Nigerians...

I Beg Your Pardon

How does one begin to understand the psyche of beggars? Not your usual street beggars who due to no fault of theirs have to brave the elements in search of their daily bread. I’m talking about your uniformed or corporate beggars...

Nigeria: A Unique Nation or an Oddity?

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world...

Nigerian Men Killing Their Wives - Calling A Spade What It Is Part [I]

What I am about to say here, I know, will annoy so many of our women. Some will like me but some will hate me. Nevertheless, I love our women and therefore, my only intention here is to inform and educate, period...

Apathy For Biofuel

With increased awareness in biofuel production, new players in the business like Indonesia and Malaysia have started a fierce competition with traditional biofuel producers...

Nigerian Medical Personnel as Merchants of Death

The attitude of Nigerian medical personnel towards their patients leaves much to be desired. Pointedly said, the average patient in Nigeria faces grave risks in the hands of our medical doctors, nurses and hospitals whether private or public…

A Reflection on Nigeria’s Vision 2020: Toward Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Nigeria celebrates its 48th birthday this month as a nation in search of an elusive identity in a global community. The nation also continues to struggle with the experimentation with self-governance, self-rule, democracy...

Environmental Problems Are Everywhere, Solutions Too

At the opening of the ‘Environmental Reporting’ programme organized by the International Institute of Journalism, IIJ, in Berlin, participants find out that environmental problems may  not be peculiar to Africa and Asia alone...

Nigeria: Towards a Perfect Union

Those of us living today, not those living in the 1900s, have to decide which kind of union we wish to live in. We are responsible for the kind of future we leave for our children...

Nigeria at 48: Looking Back, Going Forward

At 48, uncertainty and corruption straddle Nigeria like a Frankenstein. The direction of government is unclear. Cases against public officials are lingering unendingly in various courts...

“Loving Lagos” In Berlin…Interview with Arne Schneider

The typical stereotype reputation of Lagos as a complex, hellish city where life is short and brutish got a positive boost recently in far away Berlin, Germany...

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