Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption
Empowerment: Euphemism for Corruption The word and context of “empowerment” has come to take on in interestingly corrupt or perverse meaning of its own in everyday Nigerian parlance. Unlike its…
Corruption
Buhari’s House and the “Pacts” that Hold It Together
President Muhammadu Buhari has a political “house” he heads and it is the recently emerged All Progressives Congress (APC). New houses either collapse or withstand whatever the elements throw at…
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail Nigeria’s failing as a nation is not the work of God. Nigerian political economist Claude Ake, with conviction, said there was never any design…
Is APC the House of Refuge for the Corrupt?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the political party which the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari leads. President Buhari was elected by a popular vote…
Oil and Gas Free Zone in Nigeria: What is it all About?
It was recently announced in July 2015 that Brass in Bayelsa State, Nigeria has been designated as an “Oil and Gas Free Zone” by the federal government. It was shocking…
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power Will the Probe of the Nigerian Electric Power Sector from 1999 to 2015 Succeed? The Senate probe into the management or mismanagement of the Nigerian Electric…