The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was created as an interventionist agency in the year 2000 during the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, with the sole mandate of ensuring an overall development of the oil-rich Niger Delta, in response...
The news that the governor of Ebonyi state, Engr. Dave Umahi has declared support for the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari in the next presidential polls of Nigeria come 2019 came to me as grandeur per excellence. Worthy to...
It has become imperative for Nigerian media to improve its understanding of conflict reporting, in order to improve its impact in helping the nation minimize loses, while improving gains in conflict situations.
It is true that nobody will argue that...
In a bid to justify the action of Kaduna State Government to sack certain class of its teachers who it said failed a competency test, Professor Pius Adesanmi made disparaging remarks about Sokoto state government's decision to retrain its...
Politics in Nigeria has become a tournament of race horses where the game is on the side of brute speed and not administrative wit. Politicians come with quick fix templates to buy into the psyche of some simple-minded electorates...
When he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Executive Secretary of Petroleum Equalization Fund (Management) Board (PEF) in October 2016, not much was known about Alhaji Ahmed Bobboi in the oil and gas sector.
Stakeholders, especially, individuals and...
Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp was a little, downtrodden man in baggy trousers with a mustache, bowler hat and  carrying a cane. He was poor, powerless and bewildered. Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin)seemed a lonely, vulnerable figure who tried endlessly to...
How, at what age do we explain abnormal sexual behavior to children? It is awkward enough discussing sex. When we were growing up, as soon as kids get to certain age, they hide from their parents especially the females...
Since his appointment as Nigeria's Minister of Interior on November 11, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari, his covert and overt dispositions to civil issues and internal security matters of Nigeria have built confidence and as well reinforced the earlier...
An article on Maina with a title such as the above is not likely to win its author any applause or friends. With Maina and ‘Mainagate’ becoming by-words for ‘fantastically corrupt’, to suggest that we should pause to listen...