Opinion Corner

By Louis Odion As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate’s distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy of it all. The authorities in Abuja would rather indulge in the profanity of buck-passing, lamented Professor Wole Soyinka. That climate of shame would appear to have grown even more inclement and the midnight …

By Imam Imam Six years ago, five young Nigerians graduated from Usmanu Danfodio University with a bachelor’s degree in Law and were on the verge of missing admission into the Nigerian Law School due to lack of finances. Over dinner, it was mentioned to the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, of the dire situation …

By Desmond Agbama The wickedness, greed, insensitivity and lack of concern for the welfare and well-being of ordinary Nigerians by some of our leaders and businessmen, especially in the petroleum industry have resurfaced again with unending queue at filling stations across the country. It has become a tradition in Nigeria for people to experience fuel scarcity and arbitrary hike in …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa Section 153 of the 1999 constitution provides for the establishment of the National Judicial council (NJC). The functions of NJC are set out in paragraphs b & d of Item 21 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution and include the exercise of disciplinary control over judicial officers. This is the umbrella upon which the NJC …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa   Let me start by stating that political parties in Nigeria have no perceptible ideological divide. I expressed my views on this in a previous piece on platform mobility. The political parties exist in fulfillment of constitutional requirement as the only organ that can sponsor candidates for elections in Nigeria. They are barely able to control …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa Nigeria’s independence was not the product of any tough or ideological struggle. It came as a result of Britain’s political decision to let a number of countries off the hook following the popular crave for independence at that time. Nigeria happened to be one of them. There were no strong ideologies like the type that existed …

Zimbabwe’s new president is not, at first glance, the obvious champion of the change his country hungers for. Emmerson Mnangagwa is 75, and for decades he was righthand man to Robert Mugabe, accused of the same human rights abuses and similar corruption. He is widely known as “the Crocodile”, a liberation war nickname that may have stuck because it suited …

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has described the late former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme as an epitome of a detribalised Nigerian. Ekwueme, 85, died on Sunday in a London hospital after a brief illness, according to a statement, signed by his younger brother, Igwe Laz Ekwueme, a musicologist. Okorocha, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemedo, …

It may interest you to know that since 1995, small businesses in America usually generate as much as 64% of the new jobs in the United States, and have been responsible for the payment of 44% of the total US private payroll, according to the Small Businesses America, SBA. If those in authority are really committed to bringing the desired …

The events of the last week revolving around the outbreak of monkeypox should make us sober. Logic was turned on its head, and common sense took a dive into the bushes. A whole region was gripped in a mass hysteria that was almost apocalyptic in scope. The atmosphere is reminiscent of wartime – when confusion and lawlessness usually create a …