Nigeria: May 29 – Their Democracy Day
MAY 29, 2009 is supposed to be a day that Nigerians both at home and abroad will celebrate a decade of successive democratically elected administrations, a day to be celebrated...
Nigeria: Again, Yar’Adua Offers Olive Branch to Militants
Abuja — President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has urged militants in the Niger Delta to embrace his amnesty offer and join hands with the government to develop the region for the...
Nigeria: Why Democracy is On Course – Yar’Adua
Abuja — PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua said yesterday that the nations' democratic governance has lasted 10 years, uninterrupted, which the nation is celebrating today because of the deep-rooted loyalty and professionalism...
Nigeria: JTF Uncovers Tompolo’s Foreign Link
Warri — COMMANDER of the Joint Task Force, Major-General Sarkin Yakin Bello, Wednesday at Camp 5, told our news agency that he has uncovered materials linking Government Ekpemupolo's (Tompolo) activities...
Africans! Rise and take that, that belong to you.
A lot has been said and written in the last years about Africans and Africa. Most times, it is either that we are not human enough because we are black...
The Niger Delta Crisis: Nigeria Is Sitting On A Keg of Gunpowder
Some time during Abacha’s infamous, brutal, sadistic and despotic tenure in Nigeria, the combined Nigerian armed forces and the Police launched an assault on the Niger Delta, shortly after Ken...
The new face of violence in Africa : its causes, consequences and possible solutions
Thomas Hobbes, in his political philosophy, describes the condition of people before there was any state or civil society as hypothetical. In this level of being, every human person has...
Our Democracy: Our Gains and Our Pains after 10 Years
Sincerely speaking, the only gain we have got in the past 10 years of democracy in Nigeria is simply that we have had a civilian regime. (more…)
In A Lighter Mood: City Of Jos As A Holiday Resort
This is an attempt at packaging, re-packaging, branding and re-branding the city of Jos after the last disturbance involving the indigenes and the Hausa/Fulani settlers that left scores of people...