IN The Guardian of May 14, 2013, I could not fail to relish reading Luke Onyekakeyah’s brilliant opinion piece titled, “What the African Union should do at 50”. However, he goofed up to blemish the piece. Inter alia, he wrote, “Over the...

THE house is like any other along the street, without any special adornment. We are in the largely middle-class suburb of Surulere in Lagos.  But to my pleasant surprise, the street, which I have not visited for several years, has now been...

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AS confirmation that even in the midst of hope, is no escape from despair and frustration, Italian politicians were the beneficiaries of a narrow escape from a crazy gunman on April 27, 2013. Here is an eyewitness account...

I READ Mr. Remi Adekoya’s piece in the Guardian of the U.K. entitled ‘Goodluck Jonathan’s report card for Nigeria? Must try harder’ in which he praised President Jonathan for a booming economy but came down hard on him for failing to help...

POPULAR sovereignty, which stipulates, first, that people are the source of any and all governmental powers, and secondly, governmental powers are exercised only with the consent of the governed, is a fundamental principle of democratic...

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...