Author Archives: Chief Oyibo

Street trading in Lagos

THE move by the Lagos State Government to rid Lagos of street trading and bring sanity to the metropolis is a step in the right direction. The painful reality is that hawkers have turned the city’s major highways into markets. … read more

Protesting villagers leave Shell facilities

Angry villagers who took over three Shell oil installations in Nigeria’s troubled southern delta region vacated the facilities Tuesday after a six-day occupation, a community spokesman said. Elsewhere, however, a group of villagers who occupied a facility run by the … read more

Militants upsurge: Activist blames govt

RESURGENCE of ethnic militia activities in the Niger Delta has been viewed as an economic and humanitarian tragedy. A research fellow of the Centre for Advance Social Studies, Dr Sofiri Peterside who spoke weekend at a seminar organised by the … read more

UN environment experts to explore Ogoni land

Officials of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would arrive Ogoniland today for a five-day exploration of the environmental situation of the area. The visit of UNEP is in response to earlier invitation extended to the organisation by President Olusegun … read more

Aviation: Whither the Sweeping Reforms?

Barely one year after the nation lost over 200 persons in two fatal air disasters, Nigeria yesterday witnessed another air tragedy in which an ADC Airline Boeing 737 aircraft crashed five minutes after taking off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International … read more

ADC Licence revoked

Nigeria has revoked the license of the company whose commercial airliner crashed the day before leaving 96 dead, the country’s third major civilian air catastrophe in little over a year. Among those killed Sunday were the country’s top Islamic cleric, … read more