by Cheta Nwanze Thus it was that in Nigeria today, while all the activists and people are raising hell to water over impeachments, PR contracts, and young Pakistani girls,…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Yesterday, millions of hard working Lagosians, spent three hours going in one direction in traffic. Arrived at our offices all fagged out, took a nap rather than…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze The thing is that the army isn't listening. Rather, they are fighting back. On the streets of Lagos that is. But then denying what they…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze File photo The good news, if such a thing is possible in such circumstances, is that what happened in Lagos, was one of our sadly routine tanker…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwaze Permit me to fall of my chair for a bit in almost derisive laughter as this had the same impact as someone telling me that Papa Eagles…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ...this video of a so-called customer service person for Arik Air at the Calabar Airport tells us just how far we have to go in our service…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ....kedaddling back to the party that was roundly beaten on Saturday, a gentle advice: Nigeria is full of poor people, and those poor people have the power…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Arisekola Alao, was to run into trouble many times in the future, quite notably in 2011, when one of Nigeria's biggest banks, Guaranty Trust Bank…
Read Moreby Zara Mustapha The tax haven of Liechtenstein has had a change of heart. They will be returning to us, the cash that was carted to them in quite…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze While people were dying in Damaturu, 1144 km from there, almost 500 others are still singing hymns at a military dungeon in Aba. In order to justify…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ....we must point out that NEPA's inability to supply power during a critical time such as the World Cup is symptomatic of the lack of what I…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ....people like Gaby feel more at home in Abuja because Abuja has amenities, such as primary schools, that they have pointedly denied their people back in the…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze The Amis sadly, have a long history of failing to take into consideration the cultural nuances of places that they interact with, and Nigeria's West has a…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ....our boys in khaki have been returning us back to the dark days of the dark goggled one. Consignments of newspapers are being withheld from the populace…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Nigeria's first ever official game was against Marine Cosby, which we won 5-2. During the next game, against an Athenian League XI, the English refused to play if…
Read Moreby Afolabi Legunsen Supporting these crazy unending hikes, without asking for the necessary structure to be put in place is quite insensitive and anti-people as a friend put it. Permit…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Nigeria CANNOT become a developed nation if we do not have welders or carpenters or stenographers. That, no matter how you cut it, is fact. For too…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Nigeria does not have nearly enough people with technical skills. I daresay it as gotten worse in the last year, being that those who get the vocational…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Truth is that different grades of cement have different uses, same way, stockfish was caught fresh, and there are no chemical additives. So if cod caught in…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze ....Doyin Okupe was left reeling in shock yesterday, when Aunt Oby refused to shake his hand. He took his complaints to Twitter, here and here. I beg…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze A leading candidate for the pie, Umana Okon Umana has promised to repeal "offensive portions" of the new governor's pension Act which was signed last week. One…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze To be realistic, I can't think of too many other ways to end this madness given that we hear all sorts of stories from the military side of…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze In the same year, we managed to generate just 1.2 million jobs, down from 1.6 million the year before, with 54% of these "jobs" created in the…
Read MoreChude Jideonwo What: Book launch of Chude Jideonwo's 'Are We The Turning Point Generation?' Where: Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. When: 25 May 2014 Obiageli Ezekwesili and Adebola Williams…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Yes, 43 days after the Chibok babes were ushered away, and 22 days after they were told to come and sit, the Chibok Babes Committee has returned…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Speaking of funding, the number of reports I've been reading in recent times about how #BokoHaram get their funding leaves me in some kind of envy over…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Speaking of dogs in mangers, the eggheads at LASU are firmly positioning themselves in that column. Rather than insisting on standards, they are attempting to sell an…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Let's accept one real, hard fact about this "democracy" that we have: democracy, American style, is nothing more than a popularity contest. Citizens such as we have…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze When a Nigerian tells you I dey come, he is not walking towards you. He actually means to tell you that you in an Arnold Schwarzenegger kind of…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze Kashim Shettima, while his state is on fire, has proven that Roman emperor Nero has nothing on him. You see, Uncle Shettima tends to favour spending his…
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