Yar'Adua's Seven-Point Agenda (Plus Two Special Issues)  
September 30, 2007 | 89 Comments
1. Power and Energy 2. Food Security and Agriculture 3. Wealth Creation and Employment 4. Mass Transportation 5. Land Reform 6. Security 7. Qualitative and Functional Education

Plus Two Special Interest Issues....1. Niger Delta 2. Disadvantaged Groups

Akunyili: Time To Go Gracefully? - By Bridget Molokwu (Independent)  
August 23, 2009 | 9 Comments
In July, 2004, when Professor Dora Akunyili turned 50, the Pharmaceutical Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (P-MAN) organised the biggest birthday party ever for any Nigerian in Lagos. Three former Heads of State were in attendance, as well as numerous state governors and ministers. She was then the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Control and Administration (NAFDAC). Five years later, when her second daughter wedded in Abuja, she had become the...

The New Yorker Endorses Barack Obama  
October 3, 2008 | 9 Comments
On almost every issue, McCain and the Democratic Party's nominee, Barack Obama, speak the generalized language of "reform," but only Obama has provided a convincing, rational, and fully developed vision. McCain has abandoned his opposition to the Bush-era tax cuts and has taken up the demagogic call—in the midst of recession and Wall Street calamity, with looming crises in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—for more tax cuts. Bush's expire in 2011. If McCain, as he has proposed,...

How Nigerian Army Officers Sold Weapons To Militants  
January 15, 2008 | 9 Comments
THERE have been startling revelations about how army officers sold weapons to militant groups in the Niger Delta. According to investigations, thousands of AK-47 rifles, General Purpose Machine guns (GPMGs) and ammunition are said to be missing from the Nigerian Army Central Ordinance Depot in Kaduna.

'Monopolistic Operation In The Cement Industry Is Bad For Nigeria'  
September 7, 2007 | 9 Comments
The Ibeto Cement Company Limited has noted a series of misleading press reports and comments being orchestrated for the purpose of negating the very compelling reasons for which the Federal Government made the decision to reopen our cement bagging plant in Port-Harcourt and recreating adverse conditions that will frustrate the restoration of work on the plant.

Of Looters, Leaders And The EFCC List  
July 13, 2009 | 7 Comments
However, I’d like to let Mrs Farida Waziri and the EFCC know that Nigerians are not impressed with this list of 56 mostly minor rogues (the names of such people as Olabode George, Orji Kalu, Iyabo Obasanjo, and some foreigners notwithstanding) stealing only N243 billion – less than £1 billion). There should be more important names on that list; the list is much longer and the amount is much, much more.

Yar'Adua's 7-Point Agenda: Impost And Implementations!  
December 25, 2008 | 7 Comments
Nigeria government's 7-Point Agenda alias Seven Major Government Issues accommodates Power and Energy, Food Security and Agriculture, Wealth Creation and Employment, Mass Transportation, Land Reform, Security plus Qualitative and Functional Education. They were defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future; which energizes development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations...

Obasanjo In Ajaokuta  
December 28, 2006 | 7 Comments

Igbo Soldiers Plotted Coup From Independence Day – Ejoor  
April 6, 2009 | 6 Comments
In a three-part thriller that is sure to send historians about the Nigerian Civil War back to library shelves, the Military Governor of the... defunct Midwest Region, Major General David Akpode Ejoor, says military coups in Nigeria began right from independence in 1960. In this interview with BIMBO OGUNNAIKE and AZEEZ FOLURUNSHO, he shredded several claims and set-positions about the country's past and future

Pfizer And Kano ... Monkey Suffering And Baboon Feasting!  
December 14, 2008 | 6 Comments
The biggest industry in Kano now is the Trovan list. All manners of disabled people, especially those with well-connected family members are lobbying to be listed as victims . The calculation is that once your name is on the list you are a potential millionaire.