How Anambra Was Stopped From Benefitting From Its Crude Oil

Anambra State is one of the Igbo states of Nigeria. It is a state that has produced great innovators like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Odumegwu Ojukwu, Alex Ekwueme, Innoson Chukwuma, Chuba Okadigbo, Emeka Anyaoku, Peter Emeagwali, Dora Akunyili, Chukwuma Soludo just to mention a few. Anambra State is known as a pace setter as far as…… Continue reading How Anambra Was Stopped From Benefitting From Its Crude Oil

What Jeb Bush Must Do To Restore The Bush Dynasty

Okay, so Jeb Bush lost out and dropped out in South Carolina in the 2016 US elections. One US publication proclaimed that the Great Bush Dynasty ended thus and with a whimper, not a bang. When I read that, the student of world history in me remembered several great dynasties that ended with supposed whimpers.…… Continue reading What Jeb Bush Must Do To Restore The Bush Dynasty

Buhari, Create Lake Chad Basin Agricultural Development Agency (LaCBADA)

This article is an attempt to get the Federal Government of Nigeria to suspend oil exploration in Lake Chad in response to drastically falling oil prices, and instead use the N37 billion allocated for oil exploration in the area to promote agriculture in the region. We will propose the creation of a new Federal Agency…… Continue reading Buhari, Create Lake Chad Basin Agricultural Development Agency (LaCBADA)

Maritime University And The Niger Delta

“We are not going ahead with the university project (referring to Nigeria Maritme University (NMU), Okerenkoko), proposed by NIMASA because we have an institution in Oron, we have Nigeria Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria and we have the Nigerian College of Aviation in Zaria, which we could upgrade to a university status and NIMASA is…… Continue reading Maritime University And The Niger Delta

Babatunde Fashola And Nigeria’s Coal Deposits

In 2006, when the then outgoing Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu anointed his then little known Chief of Staff, one Babatunde Raji Fashola as his chosen successor to the governor’s seat at Alausa, not a few feathers were ruffled. Many of Tinubu’s disciples who had expected the Jagaban Borgu to name them…… Continue reading Babatunde Fashola And Nigeria’s Coal Deposits