By Engr Pascal Ubani

Amid intermittent travel advisories by Western diplomatic missions in the country to their citizens on visiting parts of the country because of the nationwide security challenges, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, on Tuesday, August 21, 2024, led a delegation to the $800m Aba Independent Power Project built by the Geometric Power group.

By Patrick Nzerem

During his visit to the Geometric Power group in Aba, Abia State, on Wednesday, August 22, 2024, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, said he found the Geometric Power model in providing regular, quality and affordable electricity impressive. Though the press did not report the features of the Aba Independent Power Project that impressed him, the media disclosed that the diplomat expressed satisfaction with “the state-of-the-art facilities” he inspected.

By Chijioke Ogbodo

An inaugural lecture which is only presented by a full professor signifies the introduction of such new professor. It is an academic event where the professor presents their research and future plans. It is usually attended by colleagues, students, and sometimes the pniublic.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Nigeria is divided across many lines on any issue. What appears to unite Nigeria is the attractive indolence that crude oil revenue has imposed on Nigeria. Some call it the "resource curse" without further inclination to ventilate different ways oil curses Nigeria.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Where debates arise over ownership of property, our forebears drew from their perspicacity to reach decisions that may not be conclusive. There is wisdom, therefore, in the ancients saying, "someone is the owner of what belongs to us". If we apply this saying to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, the subtleties of our forefathers become more obvious. Is it our NNPCL, their NNPCL, or whose NNPCL?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Bello Turji is not an an ordinary bandit. He sets his rules, enforces them, while wondering why he is grossly misunderstood. If you ask him, he would tell you he is in search of justice.

By Azu Ishiekwene

I don’t get involved with what the security services do or how. Their ways are so complex and their motives so unsearchable that sometimes you’ll be forgiven for thinking that working from the answer to the question is the standard operating procedure. Of course, you are told that whatever happens in between is in the public interest.

By Hassan Gimba

Yes, we are at war! This much we said last week. But the curious and sad thing is that Nigerians don’t seem to know or don’t want to know, and our leaders don’t seem to care. Our security agencies, whose activities are akin to the movement of wavelengths, continue with the aura of “everything is all right” when the trajectory is low, only to chase after those fighting Nigeria when the trajectory shoots up.

By Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji

Virtually everyone in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State was elated when the party announced a meeting between party leaders, aspirants and the people's governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, CON. Some clarity was to finally come regarding the ruling party"s Primaries in preparation for the local government elections scheduled for Saturday, September 21, 2024.

By Hassan Gimba

This article was first published in December 2017 and repeated with minor changes a few times. I am repeating it because I find it very relevant and perhaps it may make us view Nigeria first over many of the things that pull us apart. Why should a citizen hail a leader today but wail tomorrow when a different leader does what he hailed yesterday? Or why should he wail today when just yesterday he was hailing a different person doing the same thing?

By Steve Osuji

It’s corruption, stupid. Dr Reuben Abati is a public intellectual. Love him or not, his mind is first rate and he has operated in Nigeria’s publicshere over the past three decades as editorial writer, columnist and currently, television pundit/ celebrity of the intellectual kind. He has all this while, been immersed in public affairs both as an outsider and a participant observer in government.

By Ola Awoniyi

The passage of the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Bill 2024 by the National Assembly is now history. The Bill, which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has already signed into law, amended the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 by increasing the Minimum Wage from 30,000 Naira to 70,000 Naira and reducing the time for periodic review of the National Minimum Wage from five years to three years.