POLITY

TACKLING THE RISING WAVE OF KIDNAPPING

Thisday Editorial Security agencies must do more to stem the scourge  Kidnapping for ransom has assumed anarchic proportions in Nigeria. Hardly a day passes without chilling reports of abductions, sometimes of a whole family. But…





Obasanjo and Jimmy Carter

A Memo To Obasanjo

By Akin Osuntokun  Exasperated at a slew of successive military take over of governance in the African coup belt states of Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon, President Olusegun Obasanjo came to the conclusion…



NJC To Select 11 New Supreme Court Judges Wednesday

By Ameh Ochojila Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and chairman of National Judicial Council (NJC), Olukayode Ariwoola, will in his last quarterly meeting of the council on Wednesday and Thursday, unveil new 11 Justices of…


Nigerian rulers

Acute Tone Deafness Amidst Anguish And Hunger

Acute Tone Deafness Amidst Anguish And Hunger Postscript by Waziri Adio The insistence of our legislators on an inscrutable right to binge on luxury cars and the audacity of the executive to include some items…


Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

NEITI Reveals Federation Account Received N14.4tr In Two Years

By Kingsley Jeremiah (Abuja) and Waliat Musa (Lagos) Concerns over NDDC’s N2.41t expenditure amid transparency, accountability issues. The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that the nation’s federation account received N14.38 trillion between…


Dr. Sam Amadi 

The Audacity of Corruption

By Dr. Sam Amadi  It is common to say that Nigeria is a corrupt country. However, that does not really make much sense. Almost every country is corrupt to the extent that there are always…