There is clear mismanagement, fraud and abuse of due process in the way Nigeria’s aviation agency is run The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria has been a drain on the nation’s economy as millions of naira is lost to phony deals and contracts executed by the agency’s management, an investigation by this newspaper has shown. According to documents available to [...]

by Anja Choon Naija Stories: Of Tears and Kisses, Heroes and Villains edited by Myne Whitman is a collection of thirty short stories by Nigerians about life in Nigeria except for one story, which plays in the Nigerian Diaspora. Apart from this shared element, the stories are very diverse. Many, many topics Two stories touched me the most. The first [...]

Youths constitute the strongest force every nation has, and with the right orientation they do great things. In Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has a community development group saddled with the sole responsibility of anti-trafficking in persons – the ATP CD group. This is perhaps one of the means through which governments in African countries (from which most [...]

by  Emmanuel Iduma So, I was one of the cyberspace moralists who put in word for Okeoghene Ighiwoto, the now famous Nigerian patient who has been ‘saved’. How might one begin thinking of this matter in a post-salvation mode, now that we feel good, sigh gratefully, relish our success? But, as we find, success is often an imagined word. And that fact [...]

by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo The National Health Bill 2011 gathers dust in one of the Aso Rock’s cabinets, unsigned and thus not in effect, close to a year after the National Assembly finally passed it into law in May 2011. The passage into law, the climax of an over two years journey in the two chambers of the National Assembly [...]

by Emilomo Ohiwerei Sometimes, the good we can do in our society are hidden until we simply attend a meeting, join a group and do something with other people. And then, eureka! We make a wonderful discovery and are motivated to do more. It happened to me recently through my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) experience and now, I have [...]

Economic Literacy is a new series in which our experts review and score popular economic writing on Nigeria. In the first installment, Abimbola Agboluaje and Ladipo Oye-Somefun review and score Simon Kolawole’s article “How Not to Remove Fuel Subsidy“. Ladipo Oye-Somefun The scoring system I am using will be around four areas: Does the piece educate the reader: ie inform [...]

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