Leadership Newspaper, media responsibility and the Police
Our attention has been drawn to a statement by the Leadership Newspaper titled “Statement on the Arrest and Detention of LEADERSHIP journalists” (April 10), the latest episode in the matters…
How Security Operatives Imperfect the War against Boko Haram
It was funny to many Nigerians when President Goodluck Jonathan on-one-occasion said that the members of an Islamic sect known as Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad but basically called…
El-Rufai: The portrait of a ‘leader’
I wouldn’t like to call Nasir El-Rufai a crook. No, he does not deserve that appellation. However, after searching for a better adjective to qualify him, it appeared to me…
Mr. President, Nigerian Roads are destroying our best Assets, Human Beings
In recent days more than a hundred people, including children, have reportedly been killed across the country. These deadly collisions most often involve trailers, tankers and buses across the South,…
Counting the Cost of Nigeria’s Water
Not many Nigerians may know Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and fewer still would have any reason to. Born in 1772, he was an English poet who lived long before any notion…
Can APC cure Nigeria’s headache? (1)
As the merger of the country’s major opposition parties crystallized a few months ago into a mega party known as All Progressives Congress (APC), I received an email from my…
Nigerian Security, where was the Presidential Generator on Easter Day?
The question is not about the chronic impoverished power supply in Nigeria as we all know about this aspect of our national instability. What is worrisome is that the officials…
Careless attitude of PHCN Kills residents of Rivers
It takes the whole body to weep, but the eyes to cry, at a tragedy. The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has made a lot of comedy of the…
Etim: Akpabio Not quite a reckless governor
Within the stormy politics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was expected that Governor Godswill Akpabio would sooner or later walk into an ambush. He has assumed a towering…
Editorial: Governor Akpabio and the limits of Buffoonery
To a man with a hammer, Mark Twain once said, everything looks like a nail. One hammer that has been working overtime is that wielded by Akwa Ibom State Governor,…