Goodluck Jonathan: A Cautious or Baffled Reformer?

Jul. 6 | By Yemi Ifegbuyi JUST over a year ago, and few weeks into the assumption of office by Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, I had the opportunity to discussed the prospect of the new president with a senior American technocrat on U.S-Africa trade...

Buhari’s biggest burden

Jul. 6 | By Anthony A Kila Unlike most people who simply read and consume the daily chronicles and stories of their time for information and decisions, students of strategy like those of history and politics have a quirk: they read and follow events looking for...

The Folly of Nigerian Governors

Jun. 27 | Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Rivers State Governor and Chiarmain of Nigeria's Governors Forum. By Anthony A Kila When it comes to utterances and conducts, Nigerian politicians have often displayed a level of audacity that verges on recklessness. The recent...

Boko Haram Terror: Political, not religious

Jun. 27 | Members of emergency services work at the scene of a bomb explosion carried out by members of Boko Haram islamist militia at the Nigeria's police headquarters in Abujan on June 16, 2011. Photo Credit: Reuters By Olusegun Adeniyi When the BBC published...

African youth future endangered by dwindling reading culture, group says

Jun. 22 | IDAY’s Commitment to the Reading Culture Press Release: Participants at this year’s International Day of the African Child …and Its Youth (IDAY) Nigeria Chapter have resolved to make book readings a culture among children and youths, in a bid to...

Somali piracy: in search of remedies for a global malady

Jun. 16 | Suspected Somali pirates are apprehended by a patrol of the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EUNAVFOR), one of several initiatives to combat piracy against international shipping off the coast of Somalia. Credit: EUNAVFOR By Wanjohi Kabukuru Nairobi Twenty...

Italian Politics: As the Berlusconi era nears its end

Jun. 7 | A man shows the picture of center-left candidate as Milan's Mayor Giuliano Pisapia in Milan, Monday, May 30, 2011. Photo credit: AP By Anthony A Kila Our notes will be incomplete if we do not pause to invite some reflections upon some of the events...

Inauguration Jamboree: A Waste of public fund at the expense of the Nigerian masses

Jun. 6 | By Augustine E Akhilomen Nigerians within and in the diaspora may have celebrated the last general  elections with wide wave of palm leaves across the thin atmosphere in  salutation of the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman Prof.  Attahiru...

Imo State: Owelle Rochas Not A Miracle Worker

Jun. 6 | Majority of Imo indigenes and non indigenes will agree to some extent that the butted past administration led by one of the most hated, alleged criminal cum 419ner, cunning, heartless etc, governor Ohakim who has earned for himself the above sobriquet...

4th Anniversay of Nigeria Public Procurement Law

Jun. 2 | Press Release - The 4th year anniversary of the Public Procurement Act (PPA) will come on June 4, 2011. The PPA was signed into law by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 4th and gazetted on June 19th 2007 as an anti-corruption strategy...