“If you appreciate the value of life, you don’t joke about death.” -Anonymous I read with…
Category: Columns
Before we dredge Calabar Port again…
In the twilight of General Yakubu Gowon’s administration in the mid-1970s, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)…
MV Abuja: Time to bring the culprits to book
The story of the last Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL) ship known as MV Abuja is a reflection…
The grandstanding and hypocrisy of Customs
Some top shots of the Nigeria Customs Service are often too quick to point accusing fingers…
Nigerian ports and Rep. Jibrin’s faux pas
I was in Abuja last week when a friend drew my attention to a story in Daily…
Stakeholders ‘fault’ Customs bill? Hellooo..!!!
I read an article in one of the newspapers sometimes last week that ‘stakeholders in the…
Bonded terminals: The End is Nigh
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Herbert Stein The above quote from the…
Indeed, There Was a Country
I have just finished reading my copy of Chinua Achebe’s controversial book and civil war memoir,…