In The Spotlight

Undiluted consumer reports directly filed by citizens/consumers of goods and services about their experiences.
Coverage of the Nigerian Election in 2011. News, articles, reports and commentaries.
Coverage of the global financial crisis. News, articles and opinion pieces.

Columnists

What is the state of the Nigerian union? As Boko Haram kills more people and the Igbo people leave the North, what remains of the Nigerian nationhood? Will National Youth Service Corp members from...
WHAT happens when a president and the people who elected him have a fundamental disagreement over a major policy? Does the president bow to the people, or do the people bow to the president? This is...
The following story appeared in The Economist on October 24, 2011: “At political gatherings people often spend much of their time talking about other events they have attended. At a conference...

Cartoons

Documents

Commentary

Nigeria is a country of unending crises because we have leaders who do not listen. The article below was published in The Guardian of December 21, 2009. I just read of situation where Governor...
My attention was at about 4pm on Thursday, January 26th 2012 drawn by long standing comrades and friends to a damaging, malicious, treacherous and agent-provocateur posting on the Face Book wall of...
We will revisit our analysis of the security sector budget beginning with some clarifications and rebuttal of the Budget Office's right of reply to last week's column titled - "Where el-Rufai...
In the 1980’s Port-Harcourt (The Garden City) was a dynamic place with a characteristic tranquil and restive edge. I remember going to the Saint Mary’s Catholic Church...
More Nigerians come home to visit every year between December 15 and January 15, than at any other period in the year. I would estimate the number to be between 250,000 and half-a-million who arrive...

Press Releases

(1)   The 1960 Collective congratulates Nigerians on their staunch and resolute stance against bad economic policies and social asphyxiation. We salute their principled and disciplined...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police as a first step towards the comprehensive reorganization and...
It was with a sense of déjà vu that Nigerians resident in the Netherlands, like our compatriots all over the world, received the news of the removal of subsidy on PMS in Nigeria. While...
  (Abuja, January 24, 2012) – The campaign of violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, including attacks on churches and suicide bombings in the first three weeks of 2012...
Human And Environmental Development Agenda (Heda)  a registered non-governmental organization(NGO) has requeted the Information Minister to supply it with relevant documents supporting the...

Interviews

In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe supports fuel-subsidy protests and says that Nigeria's unrest can be eased by better, less-corrupt leaders.
As more condemnations continue to trail the Federal Government’s removal of the subsidy on fuel, the first Vice President of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Blessing Emonena Ukiri, has said he is...
As Nigerians from all walks of life gear up for the beginning of the “mother of all protests” on Monday, January 9, 2012, over increase in fuel price, journalist and author of Time to...

Letters

My brother Willie: GEJ is the current President of Nigeria so all bucks stop on him. I never supported him as a Presidential candidate in this last election because I was not convinced on his...
N280 million for two bulletproof Mercedes Benz saloon 600 E Guard at N140 million each
The attention of Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology has been drawn to media report on Bonga oil spill where it was mentioned that the Senate committee has given Shell a clean bill of health...