A few months ago, experts reported that the multi-billion naira Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, had developed structural problems, which could make it go the way of Ijora by-pass bridge. Specifically, the bridge pavement surface had become uneven and the... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/110502.html
By having one leg in Babangida's camp and the other in Atiku's, he wants to ensure that whichever one of the men wins the impending political duel, he (Kalu) would stand in good stead in the person's eyes. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/092203.html
The giddiness is from relief that thousands of honest working men and women, in my state of origin, are suddenly beginning to feel like they are human beings again. They are becoming happy as should and it is one's fervent hope that this trend be... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/111703.html
It is clear from Senator Aluko's statement, that he was worried about the upcoming elections and how his constituents would perceive him, since he was also indicted in the report. He wanted to be given a clean bill of health, so...the indictment would not... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/091502.html
It is conceivable that after all the hue and cry about how IBB plundered the nation's treasury and formally instituted corruption and cronyism, Nigerians will still flock towards him [come 2007] when he opens the spigot of his financial pipeline and grease... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/102303.html
The general argument that many now adduce while discouraging the endorsement of Dr. Okadigbo as the Igbo candidate is that with the albatross of corruption hanging over his head like the sword of Damocles, what locus standi would he have, if elected, to... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/121602.html
All these statements coming from IBB and his cohorts point to the fact that they may just be gloating over the impeachment move on Obasanjo. What IBB does not understand is that if Obasanjo's offenses are twenty in number, then IBB's offenses double that... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/082802.html
...when Uba threw a handful of money in the direction of the musician's backup singers and instrumentalists, some of them seemed to forget that they were supposed to concentrate on the instruments they were playing. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/011705.html
Nigeria's mainstream press should not allow politicians to seduce them to a point where they lose their objectivity or fail to ask the tough questions. The absence of objectivity and consequent inability to ask tough and incisive questions by the press is... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/102002.html
I have wondered if they [Rich Nigerians] understand that by simply bringing their fellow rich ones together and pulling their resources together, they could build state of the art medical clinics...manned by [our] brilliant...practitioners who could... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/102703.html