Mother earth, Easter and humanity
Victor C. Ariole April 22 is reserved for celebrating Mother Earth like it is for Easter this year, and it calls for sober reflection on the unrepentant stance of humans, as they destroy the...
View ArticleEncomiums shower on prince Bola Ajibola at 85
Enyeribe Ejiogu (enyeribee@yahoo.com) Like torrential rain, encomiums showered on retired eminent jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola, when he hit the milestone age of 85 years, recently. To mark the day, the...
View ArticleHow to make Nigerian work again
Emeka Asinugo The embarrassing spate of violence that has enveloped Nigeria in recent years has obviously continued to increase with unrivaled rapidity since that hydra-headed monster called Boko Haram...
View ArticleBetween Borno and Akwa Ibom
Emmanuel Umohinyang Governance all over the world is serious business, in view of its strategic importance to the growth and advancement of any nation. One can, therefore, safely conclude that it is...
View ArticleCurbing the menace of kidnapping
Bola Ajao According to a Freedom House report, Nigeria recorded one of the highest rates of kidnapping in the world in 2013. Similarly, the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights...
View ArticleThe Church, the rich and Easter
Banji Ojewale There’s much we don’t take cognizance of at Easter, the most eventful festival in the Christian calendar. We discountenance its deep, bottomless sacrifice content and message and...
View ArticleAfrica and the belt and road initiative
Charles Onunaiju The second international forum of the China-initiated Belt and Road, which Nigeria and about 35 other African countries are partners would hold in Beijing on the 25th and 26th of this...
View ArticleReflections on my abduction
This 2014 narrative is by Michael Jegede, a journalist and public affairs analyst.. It is important for those in charge of governments at all levels in the country to know that we are now in an era...
View ArticleImproving JAMB’s conduct of UTME
Kayode Ojewale The just concluded 2019/2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which had over 1.8 million registered candidates, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation...
View ArticleNigeria: A country in the grip of bloody violence
Chiedu Uche Okoye Lord Fredrick Lugard, a one-time governor general of Nigeria, didn’t get the consent of the people(s) of Nigeria before he cobbled the northern and southern protectorates together....
View ArticleNigerian youths and the generation gap
Ogbu A. Ameh From time immemorial, the roles of youths in any human society determined the survival of the continual existence of the society. Every society like the living organism depends on the...
View ArticleFinding a home ground for the Eagles
Ayodele Okunfolami While receiving the Fair Play Award on behalf of Akwa United at the just concluded AiteoNFF Awards, Chairman of the Football club side, Paul Bassey described Uyo, capital city of...
View ArticleNorth and the imperative of restructuring
Iliyasu Gadu The take off point for this article is on the call by Professor Itse Sagay, Presidential Adviser on Action against Corruption (PACAC), on the North to desist from its negative stance...
View ArticleChina’s rising profile in Nigeria
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Nigeria and other African countries to beware of loans from China. One cannot really pinpoint the purport of this advice. I...
View ArticleUgwuanyi’s strides in IMT Enugu
Mark Eze Every era has remarkable events that characterize and distinguish it from the other. In each case, the events that characterize an era are either good or bad. If they are good, they create...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s national elections after 25 years
Mukoni Ratshitanga In the next couple of days, South Africa will hold her sixth democratic national general elections since the historic first inclusive elections of 1994, which heralded the official...
View ArticleEmeka Offor and the war against river blindness
The endemic problem of Onchocerciasis—river blindness and its ravaging health, economic, and social effects in Africa, particularly in Nigeria, which accounts for about 40% of the global burden of the...
View ArticleYouth, education and moral quotient
Victor C. Ariole Listening to children and how they perceive future on WAZOBIA’s ‘Kodi and the kids’, it remains evident that some of Nigerian children are not ready to face the future either because...
View ArticleIta faji and the politicisation of a national tragedy
Adesegun Ogundeji The penchant to politicize national tragedies has reached alarming proportion in our dear nation. Could it be a hangover of the 2019 election or a build up to the 2023 change of...
View ArticleBuhari and Nigeria sports: A shared passion
Fred Edoreh As we bend another circle in governance, the sports community can be assured of President Muhammadu Buhari’s passion and commitment to the stability and progress of Nigerian sports. He...
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