Op.Ed pieces and columnists
As Nigeria grapples with the challenge of infrastructural development, immediate past president of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE), Engr. Kassim Ali, has said that the government needs to trust its own professionals to handle these challenges. H...
Nigerians have been invited to nominate an Outstanding Young Person for the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI) Associate Programme – October 2011.
If President Jonathan must succeed in moving Nigeria forward within the four years of his rule, it is high time he started being very serious with placing the right persons in the right places. The era of groping should be considered over and governing...
Some basic functions of a government are: provision of security, freedom, safety, stability, equality, and social services for its citizens. Also, maintaining law and order in the society is most paramount of all. To be candid, government’s appro...
Few days ago, a bomb went off at a church in Suleja, a border town of the Federal Capital, Abuja. The next day, it was the turn of another church MICHAEL OCHE reports that people in the area no longer sleep with their two eyes closed.It all started las...
Aviation fuel in Nigeria is the most expensive in the world, a development that has affected airlines’ operations and bottom line. In a bid to reach a consensus over the lingering high cost of the product, the minister of aviation recently summon...
Growing old is a natural process no one can escape. Though we all hope to attain a ripe old age in life, the thought of it is sometimes worrisome and even a time dreaded by many. RALIAT AHMED writes. Have you ever wondered why people age? A lot ...
The Federal Road Maintenance Agency FERMA established several decades ago with the mandate to ensure that federal roads in the country are in motorable condition all year round, said it has over the years sustained road maintenance in spite of the lean...
Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Emmanuel Ibeshi is the former national publicity secretary of the party. In this interview with KUNI TYESSI and SHUAIB SHUAIB, he criticizes the current political leadership of Cross-River State and commented on the ...
Domestic help has always been needed and so the hiring of house-helps is not new. The services house-helps render include cooking, stewardship, doing the laundry, car washing, gardening, baby-sitting, driving, cleaning and other general services. In Ni...
At a point in one’s life, an individual, usually due to age, has to quit the daily activities that had been putting money in his pocket over the years. The individual is now said to have retired – it`s the point at which a person stops empl...
Hard work, they say, bears excellent fruits. Recall that a few weeks ago, Interval published a feature on Corporal Hudu Isah, an extraordinary civil servant who controls traffic at the Wuse Zone 7 junction in Abuja with so much passion. Well Corporal I...
Residents of Old and New Maitama in Kubwa Village, a popular suburb of Abuja have cried out over poor electricity supply and payment of bills which they said were too much compared to the amount of electricity supply availed to the area. Residents, who...
Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Ifedi was recently appointed an Honorary Consul-General to Nigeria by the Government of Belize. He serves on the Board of Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) Americas as the regional director for Central/South America and th...
Immediately after the Force Headquarters’ bombing, the security agencies reacted by deploying soldiers to mount check points at strategic locations, especially all entry points to the nation’s capital, in response to the threat of the milit...