The price tag of a litre of petrol will become cut-throat if the federal government of Nigeria actualizes its long-time threat to remove the fuel subsidy. The negative consequences of this removal are vast, and aside the fact that the fallouts are unquantifiable, they are also unforeseeable, because no economic expert or pundit can really predict its catastrophic proportions. - It is no news that the Nigerian economy is oil-driven. Nigeria's sole 'benefactor' over time has been its immeasurable oil reserve, which is not only present mainly in the delta area of the country , which borders the Atlantic ocean, but also embedded in pockets of broad regions scattered across the cou…

- The country has succeeded in bleeding posterity once again. The blood of slain Victor Emmanuel is evident of it, one of millions of such evidence. Victor Emmanuel, 20 yrs old, was shot and killed by policemen at one of the checkpoints at Sanni Abacha Expressway, Yenagoa, Nigeria on Sunday, 16th Oct, 2011. The slaughter happened right in the presence of the his mother, which shows how egregiously maniacal the Nigerian policeman can be when he commits atrocities. Emmanuel, whose only crime was that he upheld forthrightness (a scarce virtue nowadays) in the face of death itself when he questioned the reasons why his killers should extort commercial motorcyclists on a Sunday, the Sabbath o…

- The Nigerian Super Eagles lost a deciding match to the Syli Nationale of Guinea on Saturday, the 8th of this month. The 2-2 draw deprived our national team the opportunity of participating in the finals of the Guinea-Gabon Nations Cup come February 2012. This overwhelming defeat has left aches in the hearts of Nigerians, and consequently enraged fans locally and in diaspora. The devastating outcome of the match has left the capability of the coach, Samson Siasia, questionable; with NFF issuing a query to the onetime esteemed coach demanding his reasons for his failure to qualify the team for the tournament. And in return Samson Siasia has apologised to the country in whole and promised…

- The choice of elective Caesarean section over vaginal birth has sparked debate between traditionalists and pragmatists. The traditionalists call the pragmatists ‘lazy and not women enough to bear their own children’, while the pragmatists characterize the traditionalists as ‘uninformed, ignorant and old-school’. The group of women who opt for elective C-section in Nigeria is usually constituted of the triple ‘E’ women – Enlightened, Educated and Elite. While vaginal birth remains popular mainly among ordinary folks of the society. Consequently the population of women in Nigeria who loathe elective Caesarean section as means of bringing chil…