AN attempt to construct storm water drainage along some of the badly damaged roads/streets within the Canal Estate, Okota, in Isolo Local Government Council has put the residents of the estate in severe pain and hardship. The intended construction...

ONE vital sector that President Goodluck Jonathan seeks to turn around, as part of his transformation agenda for Nigeria is the Health Sector. From day one in the life of the President’s administration, he has   shown consistent interest in...

FATHER David Iheanacho’s “Roots of Ahiara diocese crisis” (The Guardian, 06/05/2013) and from others in Ahiara diocese are causing avoidable socio-spiritual crisis among many Nigerian Catholics. It is irritating that the do-or-die...

SIR Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor of the Bank of England has had a really tough time battling with a slew of financial scandals and audit failures. Regardless, his professional integrity and personal reputation have remained intact. His...

THE concept of moral hazard is defined as a situation where there is a tendency to take undue risk, because the costs are not borne by the party taking the risk. In other words, a party makes a decision about how much risk to take, while another...

MAY 29 is drawing close and it will be time to celebrate democracy and do an assessment of how far Nigeria has fared with this system of governance. Of recent, there have been talks about the depth of the democratic experiment, whether there have...

THIS piece of memorandum is coming rather too late. It is my fault. I was locked up in the ambivalence of whether or not the proposition would make good sense and be included in the proposed amendment of the 1999 Constitution. I could not resolve...

ON Sunday, May 12, 2013, the Catholic Church celebrated the 47th World Communications, with the theme of the Pope’s message, Social Networks: Portals of Truth and Faith; New Spaces for Evangelisation. Pope Paul VI introduced the World...

BY way of a necessary background to this ode to Paul Kagame, I was recently in Kigali, Rwanda’s neat, orderly and impeccably clean capital city of this country of a thousand hills. For most readers, especially the incurious Nigerian reader the...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan shocked Nigerians when he declared emergency rule in three northern states of Borno, Nasarawa and Yobe in a national broadcast.

Perhaps, they were caught napping not because it is an entirely new phenomenon to them or...