Op.Ed pieces and columnists
Palm reading also known as chiromancy is one of the many pseudo-sciences (a method that tries to explain physical phenomena without scientific proof to back it up). It is an art of foretelling that uses the hand lines as well as the palm’s markin...
The proposal raised last week by deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, about legalising prostitution in the country has generated heated debate among moralists and socialists alike. Besides, like one respondent puts it, prostitution is a reality of ...
Abuja as a growing city is faced with a lot of challenges, many of them bothering on infrastructure. CATHERINE AGBO reports that shopping malls and public buildings in the city have little or no provision for parking of cars in their facilities. "...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has been working tirelessly to ensure that all the squatter settlements that might portray the Capital city in bad light are completely demolished. One of such settlements is Pyakassa village which see...
Traffic congestion is a massive problem in Lagos State. This challenge, coupled with specific problems such as infrastructural weakness, demographic shift and enforcement of traffic laws, have made traffic management in the state a nightmare. In this r...
Ita Solomon Enang, a lawyer and activist, represents Akwa Ibom North in the Senate where he serves as the chairman of the powerful Business and Rules Committee. He has made history as the longest serving legislator from Akwa Ibom State, having served a...
The recently released United Nations Environmental Programme report on oil activities in Ogoni might have achieved more than its intended outcome. While some communities are happy that the report will put some money in their pockets by way of com...
The N100 billion that the Delta State government recently borrowed from the Nigerian Stock Exchange for its development programmes has generated criticisms and counter claims by the opponents and supporters of the state governor. Kola Niyi-...
Generally speaking, the basic cause of the violence in nearly all the communities concerned is political. Ethno-religious sentiments were brought into the issue through negative campaigns and rumour mongering by unscrupulous individuals to achieve thei...
In a bid to meet up with the target of the federal government for Education For All come 2015, NGOs have been springing up to contribute their quota in the attainment of Universal Basic Education. One of such is the Ilimun Wal Hikma Islamic Foundation ...
Being text of presentation by former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, at the biennial conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Benin, Edo State, recently So assuming that they manage to pass another seven bills before the end of this year, it ...
The security situation in the country has degenerated to the extent that public functions are now held in secluded places amidst tight security. ROSE ADAH reports that governments seeming inability to handle the situation may have left ordinary Nigeria...
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, serving in Sokoto State, Mr. Okereke Franklin has renovated a block of three classrooms at the Shabra primary school in Yabo local government area of the state, at the cost of N550,000. The Batch “C&r...
Nigeria marked the anniversary of her 51st Independence from colonial rule last Saturday. The celebrations were unusually very low-keyed. The actual reason for scaling down the celebrations is yet to be known officially, except for a non-committal defe...
Commentators on the intractable crisis in Jos, capital of Plateau state, amazingly including those who come from the state, all seem to fail in getting to the roots of the matter and analysing the situation as dispassionately as humanly possible. While...