Fidelis Allen

Gone are the days when the city of Port Harcourt was a preferred destination. Nigeria is a country of many cities, but not many were fortunate to be admired. “Garden City” was the signature phrase that described this city. It was clean.

British Prime Minister David Cameron described Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt.” Many Nigerians are reacting to this comment.  Some believe the British politician said it either in bad or good faith. Assuming this labeling is even correct, one is tempted to ask to know the motive.

Congratulations Nigeria. Your war boat has arrived. I have always known that carving a war boat would be your first achievement in your march towards prominence in the technology and manufacturing world.

If stories about a possible nation-wide strike by medical doctors due to a deadlock in dialogue between medical doctors and the Lagos State government are true, then we need to be warned of a growing unitary labour that works more against the poor and helpless.

‘Travellers Bill of Rights for the unfriendly sky’ was the title of a recent report in a daily newspaper in Nigeria, in which the civil aviation authority notes that Nigerian air travellers will soon heave a sigh of relief.

The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, announced on its 7:00am network news of 14 February 2012, perhaps, as a Valentine gift to the people of Rivers State, that the nearly four days of painful experience of staying without fuel for transportation and power generating sets in homes and b

‘Labour has been bought. They have compromised. As civil society in Rivers State we thought we could work with labour, but they have compromised in Rivers State. How can you be having a protest and you just sluggishly walk in? There is lack of seriousness.