Opinion

I have been reading former Secretary General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand. That piece, published in the ‘G-7Germany: The Schloss-Emma Summit’ of June 2015, has said that questions...

Just like with most things in Nigeria, today, energy requirements far exceeds the current production levels – and will do so for many years to come. Existing power generating plants are old, underutilized, with most falling into disrepair and...

Akunyili and Magu as examples When former President, Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Dora Akunyili as DG of NAFDAC in April 2001, Akunyili started to reform NAFDAC from a docile Agency to a very active one. It is instructive to note that...

Nigeria in 1988, had just a handful of   human or civil right   organisations. They were in their infancy in a country with very high   mortality rate. To some of us, it was worrying that while large parts of   the...

The forth-coming elections will produce some of the most expensive   legislators in Ogoni history. Over 35 lives had been lost in Ogoni  just   to produce legislators for the state and national assemblies. Just after the annulment of the parliamentary elections...

It may not be right to generalize on the level of educational qualification of members of the National Assembly, after all only forty out of over 360 members of the House of Representatives are with secondary school certificates. For...

Let me start this tribute in this manner One day, a schoolteacher wrote on the board the following:      *9×1=7*      *9×2=18*      *9×3=27*      *9×4=36*      *9×5=45*      *9×6=54*      *9×7=63*      *9×8=72*      *9×9=81*      *9×10=90* When she was done, she looked back at the students and they were...

I could remember the moment and where I was when news broke  that Fidel   Castro Ruiz, the international symbol of revolutionary change, had   passed  away on Friday November 25. It was  itself an historical moment;   that the most strident...

The US president-elect, Mr Donald Trump threw the luvvies of the world a   curveball with his comments to President Rodrigo Duterte of the   Philippines that his controversial fight against drugs was being carried   out "the right way".  For the...

Any one who had not achieved an objective political awareness by October 1960 would not be said to have experienced Nigeria. This group includes everyone up to sixty years of age, the group that invariably constitutes the vast majority...