NIGERIA has a poor track record in awarding oil blocks. Many of the past awards of oil blocks and marginal fields were tainted with fraud and cronyism, with some cases still in litigation. For example, […]
Conceived as a developmental agency, to fast-track the growth and welfare of the Niger Delta region, the Niger Delta Development Commission has, over time, morphed into a spoils sharing behemoth featuring a contracts bazaar of […]
For the last few years, we have had an increase in spousal abuse, stabbing and suicide reports in Nigeria. I have written about suicide prevention in the country, but, I will be discussing anger management […]
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan says his administration approved the training of female officers as combatants to enable them excel in their careers. Jonathan made the statement in his tribute to Tolulope Arotile, the first female combat […]
Liverpool were presented with the English Premier League (EPL) champions trophy on Wednesday night at Anfield stadium and they celebrated their coronation with a thrilling 5-3 win over Chelsea. The Reds started the goal fest […]
The partial closure of the 11.8km Third Mainland Bridge begins from the evening today, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu declaring that his government is ready to manage its effect. He said 650 LASTMA officers will be […]
Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health in Lagos state, says the government spends between N500,000 and N1 million daily to treat a COVID-19 patient in critical condition. Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Abayomi said […]
China has retaliated the U.S. order that it should close its Houston consulate, by also ordering the U.S. to close its Chengdu consulate. China gave the U.S. the order on Friday, with a 72 hour […]
By Sumaila Ogbaje/Abuja Forty-seven Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have surrendered to the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the Lake Chad and surrounding areas. The Chief of Military Public Information MNJTF N’Djamena – Chad, Col. […]
THE country is sinking deeper into the debt peonage. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently joined other observers to highlight this, deploring the Federal Government’s recourse to borrowing for every spending need rather […]
Greg Odogwu gregodogwu@yahoo.com 08063601665 The recent report from the International Telecommunications Union should wake us up to the impending danger from e-waste overload on the Nigerian environment. According to the ITU, a United Nations’ arm […]
BEING one of the basic needs of man, everyone craves a decent home regardless of status or gender, but it becomes a niggling oddity if a home turns the harbinger of death as the disconcerting […]
nadedokun@gmail.com In so many ways, the performance of the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, at the House of Representatives’ public hearing on the Niger Delta Development Commission should dishearten rather than excite […]
Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com On Monday, a rather dull drama erupted while the House of Representatives Committee on the NDDC investigated allegations of creative accounting in the commission. The acting Managing Director of the […]
The remains of Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile have arrived at the military cemetery on Airport Road as the funeral rites commenced. An ambulance belonging to the Nigerian Air Force with registration number AF 442, brought […]
The recent visit of Chief Femi Fani Kayode to Zamfara State has generated a lot of interest, concern and, at some quarters, outright condemnation. Many concerned observers raised issues bordering on religion, tribe and section […]
There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists, and fragments of radical democrats), on the one hand, and the actual history of Nigeria’s Left politics […]
Just last week, I wrote that under President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria has not just become a cesspool of corruption, it has become the next level of it. Although at the time I wrote the Op-Ed […]
Nigerians home and abroad were glued to Channels TV live coverage of the ongoing House of Representatives Committee on oversight probing the financial malfeasance of the Niger Delta Development Corporation. The comedy show of the […]
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) We have decided to carve out our own […]
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