Nigeria and her dysfunctional evaluation system
Livinus Ukah Only very few sincere people can call a spade a spade including the educated ones. We judge things and people from our own tribal and religious barometer. These biased judgments have cost...
View ArticleDele Agekameh: When someone you love dies
WHEN someone you love dies, someone bigger than you, someone you have profound respect and admiration for, few things come to your subconscious: you suddenly realise how ‘small’ you are and how ‘big’...
View ArticleKalu: An angel in Nigeria Police
LET us, today, forget the many disturbing and cheerless typical Nigerian stories – floods, mur- ders, kidnappings, failed roads and fake news, including the imaginary battle for the president’s “other...
View ArticleNNPC, Anambra Basin and the search for oil
Tony Onyima For four decades, many Nigerians have been waiting for the news given the determination, energy and expense put into the search. The exciting news finally came on Friday, October 11, 2019...
View ArticleSex exchange: Dimensions of immorality
Promise Adiele AS I was preparing to write this week’s essay, the muse reminds me of Festus Iyayi’s novel “Violence”. In the novel, the indigent Idemudia is sick and hospitalized. His wife, Adisa,...
View ArticleSex-for-grades as institutional quid pro quo
ICTOR C. ARIOLE QUID pro quo is somehow used in French as awkward phenomenon or a mismatch of input and end result like one always notice in some policies in Nigeria designed to have a great positive...
View ArticleBuhari, democracy and maturity
Jerome-Mario Utomi FOR a nation to develop rapidly, its citizens must learn the act of questioning settled political answers and demand answers to unsettled political questions-analyzing both formal...
View ArticleSocial media, fake news and a botched presidential wedding
Tayo Ogunbiyi It is no longer news that the much hyped social media induced ‘wedding of the year’ between President Muhammadu Buhari and Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian...
View ArticleA National Day for Zik of Africa
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Nigerians across all the divides cannot forget in a hurry that the country could not have become independent on October 1, 1960 if not for the resolve of one iconic nationalist. When...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize 2019: Insights for Nigeria
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano This year’s Nobel Peace prize won by an African, Ethiopian leader, Abiy Ahmed Ali offers some insights to Nigeria and indeed Africa, one of the most buffeted and crises-ridden...
View ArticleBack on the beat
For over a year, this column had been rested. Resting the column was to take a long sabbatical, to gather more of life’s experience, to serve the State. It’s over a year now, the assignment is over,...
View ArticleEnugu Airport runway repair work
It is unfortunate that the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, is in the news again for the wrong reasons. The runway repair work scheduled to commence over six weeks ago did not actually take...
View ArticleJudiciary and election tribunal matters
Leslie Okeh The independence of the judiciary is guaranteed where genuine democracy is practised in any part of the world. In such places, people view the judiciary as the last hope of the common man...
View ArticleEnugu-East council empowers Vigilante, Forest Guards
Francis Igata Determined to compliment the efforts of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State in the area of security who recently handed over sixty-five patrol vans to the state command of the...
View ArticleEssence of Hong Kong question should not be distorted
Chu Maoming The recent situations in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have been closely watched by many. I deem it necessary to make some explanations in this regard so as to set...
View ArticleEssence of Hong Kong question should not be distorted
Chu Maoming The recent situations in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have been closely watched by many. I deem it necessary to make some explanations in this regard so as to set...
View ArticleQuestions over APC’s future after Buhari
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja To many critical observers, there is a cloud of uncertainty over future of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of 2023 presidential election. Even with more than three years...
View ArticleKalu’s senatorial ace: Issues miscellaneous (2)
Ever since the Senate Chief Whip, former governor of Abia State and supranational entrepreneur, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu—one of Africa’s 50 richest men according to credible and respected Forbes...
View ArticleCan the Economic Advisory Council make the difference?
Ayo Oyoze Baje “Things may get even more difficult…But any sustainable economic progress will require a new direction, driven by a cocktail of comprehensive and timely policy actions implemented by a...
View ArticleBetween toll gates and railway system
Ifeanyichukwu Mmoh Only a few weeks ago, the federation government of Nigeria announced a proposal to re-introduce the toll gates system across the federation. Although, they had said that this toll...
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