By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 21, 2012 – The 2012 edition of the Failed State Index published by Funds for Peace, an independent research and educational organisation based in Washington DC, United States of America and promoted by the conservative Foreign Policy journal, has been generating debates and angst in some […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | June 4, 2012 – There is something about Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder – or more appropriately the main founder of Facebook – the eponymous social networking website- which I find very fascinating. Zuckerberg is both an affirmation and a negation of the debate in some Western countries on […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 16, 2012 – The call by Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State for a review of the current system of revenue allocation, which he argued ‘disadvantages the North’, has, expectedly generated angry reactions from the South, especially from South-south politicians. Governor Aliyu, who is also the […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK, Feb. 26, 2012 – Virtually everything about Boko Haram is contested – including the reasons for its radicalisation after some seven years of being a peaceful group, whether all the atrocities said to be perpetrated by the sect were indeed carried out by it and who its sponsors are. […]
Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 20, 2011 – The ‘white wedding’ between Chinedu Ikedieze, (a.k.a Aki), and his heartthrob Nneoma Nwajah on December 9, 2011 was front page news for a number of newspapers, including the Sun and the Vanguard. True, some newspapers made it front page news for the wrong reason: to […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 14, 2011 – The bill passed by the Senate on December 1 2011 banning same sex marriage has continued to generate furore. While some question whether such legislation merited to be an issue at all when there are apparently more pressing issues, I understand that the trigger […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 12, 2011 – Something is happening imperceptibly to our President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ). Shortly after he assembled a new cabinet following the April 2011 general elections, it seems there has been a gradual but deliberate abandonment of the public persona which GEJ used to good effect […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Nov. 27, 2011 – There are several things I feel the federal government is getting wrong. The list is long: its decision to push for a single term tenure despite massive public opposition, plans to remove so-called subsidies on petroleum products on spurious arguments that do not convince […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Nov. 22, 2011 – I was jolted by a recent report that the federal government will soon come up with a standard guideline to regulate noise level in the country. According to a report in the Next (online) of November 9, 2011, the deputy director, Pollution Control Department […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Nov. 15, 2011 – That most of the States in the country depend on the monthly allocations from the Federation Account for even their recurrent expenditures is an old story. This dependence sharpened as the number of states ballooned from 19 in 1976 to 21 states in 1987; […]
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