Mineral exploration creates two categories of people: winners and losers. From the Niger Delta region to Jos to Zamfara State and other places where mineral mining takes place, while mining sponsors count their gain in millions of dollars, the inhabitants, who are the owners of the deposits, have nothing to count but their woes and their dead members. Sulaimon Olanrewajureports. Read the rest of this entry »

The current squabbling at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is both sad and saddening. This is especially so because while the whole world is expressing concern about the extent of environmental pollution and degradation in the Niger Delta region following the release of the United Nations Environment Protection (UNEP) environmental assessment report on Ogoniland, the agency’s management and board are engaged in a bitter feud, which may prove fatal to the interest of the people of the region. Read the rest of this entry »

Nigeria is a country of absurdities. In our country, nonsense is sense, disorder is order, injustice is justice, abnormality is normal and malady is health. We embrace what we ought to repel, celebrate what should be desecrated, honour the disgraceful and wonder why we are consistent in our progress in the reverse. Read the rest of this entry »

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Sadam Hussein’s information minister during the 1993 war, was referred to by the Western media as ‘Comical Ali’ because of his notoriety for deliberately standing the truth on its head. His stock in trade was deception; he could lie in his sleep where issues affecting the regime he served were concerned. He deliberately misinformed Iraqi nationals about the true situation of things in the country in his attempt to hold on to his position as the head of the information machinery of the disgraced Iraqi dictator. Unfortunately, he was believed by most Iraqis. Read the rest of this entry »