Indiscipline and bad governance resulting from corruption have made Ibadan environmentally unfriendly and unsafe for its inhabitants. Unfortunately it would cost a lot more to fix the state capital as I see no form of planning in construction here. - I suppose the cheap cost of land would have left people with much funds to plan and build but most people rather prefer planning and celebrating parties than building well. Every day, I see people throwing domestic waste into the poorly built drainage system, thereby blocking the passage. Industrial wastes also add to this menace. Regrettably, it may be difficult to find any part of Ibadan that one can say is well planned. One is even mo…

On the 31st of January, 2011, I received a not-so-good message from an anonymous person, which read: A reliable person sent this text. Please help tell people you know in Nigeria that they should not buy eatable items from...... hawkers. They have decided in their meeting to poison drinks they sell at.......areas and towns to kill..... from tomorrow! Please help spread the news. - This text which supposedly made the rounds across the country between the months of January and February leaves so much to be desired. I tried to think that it meant nothing but I am equally led to believe otherwise by unfolding events. The continued security issues across the country could make one to believe just…

The incumbent governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has probably been very good as the Chief executive of the State since 2003 when he under the All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) unseated the PDP government in that through the polls. Tales of how he has transformed the state are numerous, including making most conservative Kano Muslims embrace immunisation programme for their children and consider sending their children to school. - However, the issue of Alma-Jeri and nomadic life remains a source of worry in the state as government’s investment in the education sector seems to be insignificant or rather wasteful. The worst observation, as it is in most parts of the no…

The Kano state government says rejection of immunisation by parents is political; 'Health is politicised.' Is that the true position? Who are they fooling? The Commissioner for Health in Kano State, Mallama Aisha Isiaku was speaking on the Polio Vaccine rejection by Kano indigenes during the start of the polio immunization programme. - It is not a new story about how most traditional Hausa/Fulani Muslims frown at the idea of free inoculation thinking that there is something hidden in it. The reality is that if nothing is done about this, we would end up seeing more disabled beggars across the country. But thank goodness, the executive Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Sh…

Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expressed dissatisfaction at the rate of growth and value of Nigeria's currency, the Naira, calling on the government to devalue the currency. It is obvious that the growth of any economy has a direct relationship with its currency, and it is in the best interest of such economy to take advantage of any prevailing and promising opportunities to develop its infrastructures and economy. - Since the 1980s, the devaluation of the Nigerian currency has never augured well with the country and its people. One of “IMFs conditionalties” is usually the devaluation of a loan applicant country’s currency in order for them to be gran…

The North has finally jettisoned their 'Zoning Bid' with the selection of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as a consensus presidential candidate from the entire North to contest the primaries of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) with Dr Goodluck Ebele A Jonathan, en route the Presidency. - However, that does not mean that no one else from the North can contest in the PDP primaries as PDP manifesto does not bar its eligible members from it primaries. They have only succeeded in exposing Alhaji Atiku the more as he is said to have issues with his state’s branch of the PDP and with the PDP in general for inconsistency, which analysts say makes him a political opp…