Category: Column
Maiduguri Flood And Disaster Management In Nigeria
By Kazeem Akintunde In the last few days, news and pictures from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, have been heart-rendering due to the large-scale destruction...
Restructuring:The North’s Challenge
This are challenging times for Nigeria and its leaders- elected and appointed. At the receiving end of this multi-various challenges which dates back to decades of...
The Oil Curse
By Kazeem Akintunde When oil was discovered in Oloibiri, a small fishing community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, in 1956, those living in the...
Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (1)
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Nigeria is at the moment in a precarious position, teetering like a heavy toddler due to the instability of its monocrop economy. The...
The Journey to Yenagoa, After 19 Years
Azu Ishiekwene When I was invited to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in June, I didn’t know what to expect. I had not visited the place since 2005. Even though I had been to...
Restructuring: The Choices before Nigeria
What Chief Obafemi Awolowo said about the future of Nigeria when on Friday February 28,1986, JS Cookey,a professor of political science,asked him for his views on...
Restructuring: The Choices before Nigeria
What Chief Obafemi Awolowo said about the future of Nigeria when on Friday February 28,1986, JS Cookey,a professor of political science,asked him for his...
Restructuring: The Choices before Nigeria
What Chief Obafemi Awolowo said about the future of Nigeria when on Friday February 28,1986, JS Cookey,a professor of political science,asked him for his views on...
When Hunger, Malnutrition And Death Stalks A Nation
By Kazeem Akintunde “Hunger is the cry of a god and two gods do the humans worship – the head and the stomach …We know the body will survive without head...
Who built Lagos?
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Someone called my attention to a post he had forwarded to me last week and said: “You must have seen the...
