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By Waziri Adio The House of Representatives’ committees on Justice and Aviation on Thursday submitted a 12-page report on the grounding of Bombardier B700 Global Express (N565RS) said to belong to the Rivers State Government. Those looking for a neutral and objective report on this highly politicized issue should look elsewhere. Otherwise, they will be [...]
By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me start with a Yoruba proverb that states: if it takes a man 20 years to prepare for madness when is he going to develop full-blown lunacy by biting the trees? This ancient adage is very relevant to the message I have for you today. I’m reasonably convinced that [...]
By Chido Onumah “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of contemporary Nigerian society”- Chinua Achebe, The Trouble with Nigeria. Prof. Chinua Achebe, literary giant, celebrated author, humanist and patriot par excellence, who was buried yesterday, was Nigeria’s gift to Africa, and indeed, the [...]
By Reno Omokri Reading the interview Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) gave to Daily Trust which was published on Wednesday the 22nd of May 2013, I am compelled to raise historical issues that put the former military Head of State’s words in perspective. Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) blamed President Jonathan for the insurgency occasioned [...]
By Cheta Nwaze “I also don’t believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn’t do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, ‘I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing.’ So they can’t resist.” — Don Zaluchi [...]
By Yakubu Dati In his book on visionary leadership, Burt Nanus made an apt quote that pertinently captures what is currently happening in Nigeria’s aviation sector. Nanus wrote “there is no more powerful engine driving an organisation toward excellence and long range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future, widely shared”. For [...]
By Wole Olabanji To the extent that freedom means the power to determine action without external regulation and religion refers to a set of beliefs and the practices associated with holding those beliefs, then there is no constitution anywhere in the world that can guarantee such a freedom. Statements purporting to recognize or guarantee the [...]
By Cheta Nwaze Greetings! First off, apologies for the mistakes in yesterday’s newsletter, and thanks to those who pointed them out. They have been rectified on the blog, and whatever punishment that Adora feels is appropriate I will gladly receive. Yes, mistakes/errors/insert-expletive-here are something that we don’t punish in Nigeria. Which is one of the [...]
By Godwin Onyeacholem Slowly but surely, the resort to ethnic preservation and protection – which is a natural outcome of deep ethnic consciousness – will continue to spread in irritating spaces like Nigeria so long as leaders wilfully deploy the principle of injustice as the principal tool of governance. Without meaning to exaggerate its disadvantage, [...]
By Cheta Nwaze According to the last reliable data we have, which comes from 2007, Nigeria produces 600,000 metric tonnes of fish per annum. In that year, we imported 740,000 metric tonnes of fish. In that year, demand was 2.66 million metric tonnes, which implied that we had a national shortfall that year of 1.32million [...]
