| |
ARTICLES ARCHIVES |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Nigeria's date with China on October 1 |
| |
THE People's Republic of China does not need introduction. Co-incidentally both countries (China and Nigeria) are celebrating their anniversaries on the same date of the same month (October 1). While China will be celebrating her 60th anniversary, Nigeria will be celebrating her 49th independence anniversary. |
| |
Chidi Odinkalu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
The outsourced Presidency |
| |
A WIDELY circulated electronic joke likens President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to an ambulatorily challenged local delicacy in a soup pot. His Presidency is also widely criticised as invisible and inaudible, verging on inept. Whatever the criticisms of the President, he is surely evolving a uniquely disembodied philosophy and style of government. |
| |
Chidi Odinkalu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Bar Beach tragedy and tourism development |
| |
THE recent Id-el-Fitri tragedy at the Lagos Bar Beach in which 10 picnickers were swept away by the surging waves clearly underscores the fact that our beaches are wild, undeveloped and as such uncontrolled or mismanaged. |
| |
Luke Onyekakeyah |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Imo: Can INEC annul entire polls? |
| |
AS the Supreme Court prepares to adjudicate on the issue of jurisdiction by the Appeal Court Abuja, to hear the Imo Governorship case between Martin Agbaso on the one hand and Governor Ikedi Ohakim and INEC on the other, it has become necessary to revisit the issues which make the matter germane before the law. |
| |
Chijioke Ogham-Emeka |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
CBN, Sanusi and the five banks |
| |
WAS Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Central Bank Governor, being altruistic when he let the sledge hammer fall on five targeted banks? Was he being patriotic when he injected N420 billion into the five banks to prevent them from failing and causing catastrophic consequences for the nation's economy, shareholders and depositors? |
| |
Kola Afolabi |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Exploring the failed state |
| |
NIGER Delta rebellion, Boko Haram insurrection, mass poverty and alienation, armed robbery and kidnapping, state robbery and corruption, high-profile election rigging, institutionalised anarchy, industrial unrest, violent cultism, state delinquency, etc, etc. All these maladies - and many more - have led some people to suggest that Nigeria has become a "failed state", or a "failing state". |
| |
Edwin Madunagu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Restructuring the federation (2) |
| |
IN the first part of this piece, I posed four related questions: One: What type of federation is currently being operated in Nigeria? Two: What type of federation is prescribed by the 1999 Constitution? Three: What type of federation is desirable in Nigeria? |
| |
Edwin Madunagu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
The infamous five and their debtors |
| |
THE list of those owing the infamous five banks reads like a Who's Who of Nigeria's well-heeled aristocracy. A group once considered untouchable, above the law, woke up one morning to find their names on the list. Their response? Denials and rejoinders via advertorials in the dailies and through text messages - They have a week to repay or face prosecution and asset seizure where legally possible. |
| |
Victor Adigun |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Time not to be a banker |
| |
OWING to the unbounded storm in our banking industry, those seeking admission to study Banking and Finance and related disciplines in our tertiary institutions with the sole intention to ply their trade as bankers had better have a rethink. My advice is premised on two flawed assumptions: only those trained in Finance work in our banks and that there is no end in sight to the current tragedy in our financial industry. |
| |
Adebayo Adeniyi |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
The CBN, my bank and I |
| |
IT has been a truly remarkable week since the news broke about what our banks have been doing with the money we keep in their custody. In that time, the focus and contention seem to be on and between the CBN (its governor) on one hand and the very big and very powerful people who took the money on the other. |
| |
Godwin Okpene |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Restructuring the federation (1) |
| |
FRONTLINE nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro, was recently reported to have said that those of them who fought for Nigeria's independence devoted more energy and time to the struggle to expel British colonial power than the time and energy they expended in laying the foundations for a democratic and just independent Nigerian nation. |
| |
Edwin Madunagu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Debating Obama's Accra lecture |
| |
I PREFER to call it a lecture because that is what it is: Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, the first African-American to occupy that post, a charming, intelligent and immensely popular man with the black population of Africa, came to Accra, Ghana and lectured the continent, and the world. The four areas covered by his lecture are, according to him, "critical to the future of Africa and the entire developing world": democracy, opportunity, health, and the "peaceful resolution of conflict". |
| |
Edwin Madunagu |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Nigeria, the unimagined nation-state |
| |
THE current issue of the BBC's Focus on Africa magazine features the debate, "Is Nigeria well on its way to being a failed state?" When contacted to argue the "aye," my willingness to do so belied my own "prickly nationalism," a condition that afflicts almost every fellow citizen I know. |
| |
Ogaga Ifowodo |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Religious riots as a smokescreen |
| |
THE outbreak of religious riots in parts of northern Nigeria was rather unfortunate. We condemn the loss of lives and the destruction of property. The outbreak was believed to be the handiwork of a group that claims an Islamic identity - Boko Haram - which is under the leadership of one Muhammed Yusuf. |
| |
Lai Olurode and Kafeel Oshodi |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
As Nigeria slides into one-party dictatorship |
| |
IN spite of parading several political parties, Nigeria is practically a one-party dictatorship. It can even be argued that the same political party, albeit under different names, has always ruled the country. |
| |
G. A. Akinola |
| |
|
