The new Abubakar Baraje-led PDP has declared a one-week prayer and fasting, hopefully, in order to secure a divine intervention on the lingering ASUU strike which is about three months old now. The fasting exercise commenced on Monday 16th September and it’s scheduled to end on Sunday 22nd September, 2013. The move was designed to […]

For an entire month, the hike in price of Petroleum Motor Spirit has not dipped below 120 Naira in black markets across Nigeria; this phenomenon is largely exacerbated by the fact that there is scarcity of petroleum products in the country.And key players in the sector have continuously promised Nigerians that the scarcity will […]

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of true representative democracy, “When will you be satisfied?”. We can never be satisfied as long as the Nigerian is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of state brutality. […]

“As a country we did not need 36 states, 774 Local Government Councils or the number of ministries we have today…….. at the moment 70 per cent of Federal Government’s revenue goes for payment of salaries and entitlement of civil servants, leaving 30 per cent for development of 167 million Nigerians….. “The problem with […]

I will not weep for you Achebe. Why should I weep, why should we weep? If anyone needs weeping for, it should be us, this generation of hunger and anger. I can’t weep for you Achebe. You didn’t die of hunger and you never lived in hunger. You didn’t die of poverty and you never lived […]