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IN spite of these enormous challenges, the Nigerian media have discharged their constitutional roles of supporting the goals and objectives of the Nigerian people by providing regular information to the people, exposing corruption, injustice, double standard and non-performance and fighting tyranny and anti-democratic tendencies. They have not always allowed political leaders to do just what…

NIGERIA is a country in dire straits practically in every aspect of human endeavour. There is little to write home about the country after 50 years of political independence. Politically, the country has no enduring system. Leadership is here for grabs by the strongest. Economically, there is no lasting blueprint. The state of the economy…

NIGERIA is a country in dire straits practically in every aspect of human endeavour. There is little to write home about the country after 50 years of political independence. Politically, the country has no enduring system. Leadership is here for grabs by the strongest. Economically, there is no lasting blueprint. The state of the economy…

I BELIEVE that I first encountered, not met, Dr. Stanley Macebuh, as he then was to me, somewhere in Enugu in 1977 or early 1978. He was yet a fresh name and as I read his column, the freshness of his distinct style intrigued me in equal measure with his peculiar surname. To me, here…

EVEN as the nation mourns the passage of president Umaru Musa Yar'adua who died on Wednesday May 5 2010, the new president who has assumed office in compliance with constitutional provision to complete the remaining phase of the first tenure of the late president, President Good luck Jonathan in a broadcast told Nigerians who watched…

I HAVE often wondered why few Nigerian women have demonstrated keen interest in political leadership. Why, for example, is the Nigerian political and public space dominated by men? It is a troubling question but it is not one that lends itself to easy answers. On the surface, we celebrate the entrenchment of democracy and official…

African farmers lost millions in Europe's recent Icelandic-volcano flying ban but their greatest threat comes from European environmentalist fears and European Union farm subsidies.Just last week, the chairman of a report by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering and others said: "We should ask whether it is right to import green beans--or even roses--from a…

THE announcement of the death of Nigeria's former President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has brought a closure to months of shoddy politicking, barefaced lying, odious vocabulary of illness and dying imposed on Nigeria and Nigerians by persons around the man who turned his illness and his continued presence in office into their own vehicle of survival…

IN line with his responsibility, the national security adviser admonished not only the president this time but the entire Nigerian people who cared to hear about how the actions of the CBN is constituting real threats to national – economic, social, political -  security. As the man with the ultimate responsibility for coordinating strategic intelligence…

I wish, in this brief intervention, to present a summary reconstruction of the historical circumstances leading up to one of the worst massacres of the Second World War (1939-1945). I will also touch on the massacre itself, the reasons provided for the massacre, the reactions of the major world powers to the massacre, and the…

THE first few months of this year alone has witnessed all manner of protests by pressure groups over matters germane to the interests and survival of both the concerned groups and the nation in particular. The list includes but not limited to visibly distraught women from Plateau, at the National Assembly, with a strong petition…

  TODAY is Christmas Day when Nigerians once again join the rest of the world in marking an outstanding date in the Christian calendar. Christmas is the centre of an annual holiday season when Nigerians make intricate travel plans to reunite with families and loved ones, to celebrate weddings and a series of end-of-year festivities. It is the season when many religious people give thanks for blessings received through the course of the dying year. Christmas day is however particularly significant for Christians because it is the anniversary celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ the Saviour which occurred over two thousand years ago. In other words, Christmas commemorates the event of momentous event of the Incarnation - a core mystery of the Christian faith.