Electing a pope is not the same as appointing an…
In choosing a new pope, special emphasis is placed on utter secrecy and, even more profoundly, the process is…
Compressed natural gas in Nigeria
If all heavy trucks in the world switched to gas, much fuel costs could be saved. At the moment 15 million…
Gowon’s defence of the indefensible civil war
According to The Guardian newspaper of March 19, 2013, former military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, decided to…
Dreaming of economic reform in China
As a new leadership takes charge in Beijing, all eyes are on President Xi Jinping and his team to see how…
Achieving the rice production target (2)
In its first season, starting in November 2012, farmers in ten leading rice-producing states of Kebbi, Sokoto,…
Nigerians in foreign jails
Not long ago, a delegation of Norwegian Intelligence Service and Customs visited. They reported that at least…
Lessons from Poland
Nigeria can learn from Poland as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and…
Why do we have conflict among parallels?
The day had broken out a bit on the dull side. The memory of the previous day’s stress came at me in some…
Unnecessary fuss about education
One of my younger ones is very football fascinated (please, note that I am avoiding the use of the word…
Michael Owen: ‘My motivation was to please Dad’
It is almost every young boy’s dream as they’re growing up to become a professional footballer. We switch on…