By Motunrayo Alaka BENSON IDONIJE, BALARABE MUSA, OTHERS FOR WOLE SOYINKA AWARD IN ABEOKUTA Leading broadcast historian and music critic, Benson Idonije, and one time governor of Kaduna Stat... Read more

By Chido Onumah The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, created a media firestorm last week when he proposed that the civil service be cut by half. Sa... Read more

Social Media Campaign Seeks President Jonathan’s Release of Promised Cleanup Funds By Human Rights Watch The Nigerian government’s failure to produce promised funding to address the worst le... Read more

By Edwin Madunagu  Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa’i On Africa must be modern, authored by Olufemi Taiwo, I had proposed that the book be freed from its “capitali... Read more

By Eze Eluchie Persons outside of Nigeria who read the news item that N2billion (U.S. $12.5million) will be spent to build a house for Nigeria’s Vice President in addition to other pri... Read more

By Chido Onumah I ended the first part of this piece last week by asking on whose side President Jonathan was on the fuel subsidy debacle: the Nigerian masses or his oil-marketers friends? I... Read more

By Edwin Madunagu  On Africa must be modern, authored by Olufemi Taiwo, I had proposed that the book be freed from its “capitalist and idealist integument” and the result “integrated in... Read more

By Jaye Gaskia & Ken Henshaw (OPEN LETTER TO THE JANUARY COALITION) The United Action For Democracy (UAD), a historic political nationwide coalition of citizens’ organisations across our... Read more

By Prof Ben Nwabueze My last adventure in constitution-making was as constitutional adviser to the Provisional Government of Ethiopia set up after the ouster of Mengistu Haile Mariam. The co... Read more

By Chido Onumah If you are confused about the assurance by President Jonathan during his recent media chat that “Subsidy stays in 2013”, you are not alone. A few days before the presidential... Read more