The shipping sector is inadvertently shaped by events in the larger Nigerian society. This is why…
Category: Columns
End of the year, so what?
Sometimes being a writer totally sucks but then; writing gives one the unique opportunity of serving…
Coins make noise while notes are silent
It was the English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English…
Fracking, shale gas and the Nigerian economy
The Middle East region has been embroiled in an unprecedented dimension of crisis of late yet…
Perambulator
Like several other Africans, I enjoy listening to Fela’s songs. I love music generally but as…
National interest and local shipowners
Last month China gave four shipping lines including China Cosco 1.8 billion yuan ($293.3 million) in…
Jonathan’s anti-people policy
Implementation of the hike in tariff of imported vehicles will place the cost of vehicles beyond…
China: Africa’s second colonialist
China’s Premier Li Keqiang made his first visit to Africa in May this year after taking…
Aniebonam @ 60
In 1999, I was a young reporter, fresh from the university and bubbling with new ideas.…
Proudly Nigerian
I am beginning to think that our country is not at a dead end after all. I…
Stowaway tragedy in Tilbury
The Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965, as amended, (The FAL Convention), define stowaway…
Patrick Sawyer’s undiplomatic behaviour
The Latin phrases De mortuis nihil nisi bonum (Of the dead, nothing unless good) and De mortuis nil nisi bene…