It is just natural that news of such fatal crash as the ill fated Dana airline crash in Lagos some days ago elicits a momentary wave of shock and curiosity …
Peter Claver Oparah
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The smoldering smoke from the ill fated Dana Airline crash in Iju Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos, has gradually died down and with it, a nation tottering on the brinks …
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With the cacophony of voices emanating from the quarters of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government on the reports of the House of Representatives probe into the scam that was conveniently dubbed …
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It is not difficult to fathom why the PDP and its allies feel so uncomfortable with the public posture and indeed the personage of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of …
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Two significant events happened in Africa last week that should force Nigerians — both the government and the governed — to do a health check on the democracy we have …
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I don’t know how many people see through the present effort by the PDP to finish off what is left of the judiciary after the scandalous manipulation that saw to …
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I cannot help but laugh out loud when I read the scandalous report that President Goodluck Jonathan has discarded the so called palliatives he employed as an alibi to effect …
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The bottomline in the present probe of the oil industry by the House of Representatives is that the Nigerian oil industry is a huge mess, as has been feared by …
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Any visitor to Nigeria, observing the raging noisy altercation about the removal of the so called subsidy on petroleum products, would be led to so many faulty assumptions which the …
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Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the attention span of both the leaders and the led is …
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The nation is about to engage in another worthless ritual of bestowing national honours on a select crop of its citizens, mainly drawn from the government and corporate circle…
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Once again, the nation’s blood pressure has been revved up by our rulers and we are being fatally told to await the unraveling of what should be the biggest increase …
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I don’t know what was possibly on the mind of President Goodluck Jonathan as he quickly acceded to the generally criticized recommendation of the National Judicial Council to remove Justice …
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It is difficult to weigh whether former Head of State, Sani Abacha’s choice hitman, Hamza Al Mustapha, expected the huge public spat that had greeted his revelation of what happened …
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With mouth agape, a friend of mine, on a first visit to Ghana, narrated how efficient the country works and how far behind we have been left as a nation. …
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We must remind ourselves of the following paradoxes that spew from this fuel subsidy mantra; Nigeria is the only major oil producing country that imports refined petroleum products and among …