I know that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, his officers and men will, likely, contest this fact: the rate of robbery, both armed and unarmed, is on the increase again. Usually, as it has become the noticeable tradition in Nigeria, the rate of robbery goes up once it is a few months to the celebration of Christmas and New Year. Ostensibly, some very lazy fellas who detest hard work, want to enjoy the festive period at the expense of those who have been working extremely hard to justify their pay.

In the last few months, and in fact since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed full presidential powers, the cacophony of voices, both individuals and groups, that have been urging him on to contest next year’s presidential election have been on the increase. At the last count, not less than five groups have emerged to push the Jonathan for president agenda. For them, it is either

In the last few months, and in fact since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed full presidential powers, the cacophony of voices, both individuals and groups, that have been urging him on to contest next year’s presidential election have been on the increase. At the last count, not less than

WEll, now the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, I believe you have read that confession of the former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke! Use the information therein and you shall have Nigerians worship you like an idol.

From the revelations by the former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, it is now very evident that the factors that will result in the conduct of credible, free and fair elections are not within the control of the Chairman of the Independent National Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega.

The so-called revelations last week by a former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, on how electoral frauds are perpetrated in the country is, for those who would be bold enough to admit the truth, not a revelation in the true sense of it. They are truths that are very well known to politicians who choose to blame others for their misdeeds. They are the realities of our country but we fail to admit because it is convenient to blame others for our own misdeeds.

In the last three weeks, the offices of telecommunications service provider, Zain, in Ikeja and Ogba, both in Lagos State, have been quite a sight.They are usually filled to the brim. Most of the time, the crowd in these offices spill outside. And the bulk of the customers are not new ones or those who are there to acquire new services. Rather, they are customers with huge loads of complaints for services not rendered but for which they have been billed. During the period, from customers’ complaints, faulty billing for Blackberry Internet Service was the major issue. This was more especially so for those who were on the monthly package but billed on the pay as you go platform, a development that led to instant loss of hard earned call credits or cash for pre-paid customers or very high bills for post-paid customers.

I wholeheartedly submit to your submission that the June 12, 1993 presidential election was the freest, the fairest and the most widely acceptable election so far in Nigeria. It was one

There is no doubt that the pronouncement of the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, that the country’s national football teams should stay off international competitions for two years was a step

But such should not happen in a clime like ours where some of us journalists have not come of age. I have watched a journalist covering the sports beat some years back struggle to take a N10 note from the chairman of one of the sports associations. The journalist had asked the chairman for

Why did the nation’s senior national team, the Super Eagles, struggle to secure a draw against the Tunisian side in its last World Cup qualifying match in Abuja? The answers are likely to vary but the

The nomination of seasoned academic, Prof. Attahiru Jega, as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), unplanned as it is, coincided with the 17th anniversary of the

I wish to commend you on your well articulated article dated June 1, 2010. For exposing the despicable spiritual hypocrisy and monstrous religious sycophancy in churchilistic penticostalism. I

Events in the last few weeks and years in the country have shown that it is high time churches should start paying taxes. The major reason for this is that the churches now do not use the bulk of the

These are interesting times in the nation’s political firmament. The countdown to the 2011 elections has started in earnest. Permutations here and there.

I quite agree with your thought, my brother. God will deliver us from our masquerade leaders such as the former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and company who believe in man must deceive man so as to keep man in perpetual bondage.

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The devolvement and usage of political and leadership powers in Nigeria are also major causes for concern in the astronomical rise in crime rate. We no longer have leaders. We have opportunists.

Power, as in political power, and power, as in electricity, were the two key factors my colleagues identified as being behind the increase in robbery cases in Nigeria. Let’s deal with the second first. It is not new, anyway.

The attack by armed robbers and subsequent death of Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, is, to say the least, terribly saddening. A conscience of

Last Thursday, former President of the United States of America between 1993 and 2001, Bill Clinton, was reported to have undergone a successful heart procedure at the Columbia Campus of