Angry youths and 2019 elections
The battle for the 2019 general elections will be fought squarely between the ‘lazy’ and angry Nigerian youths and the old and tired politicians. It is the new versus the old order. Before President...
View ArticleAbia degeneracy: Retrospection (2)
This would have put an end to the periodic reference to phantom figures as released by Prof. Herbert Orji. If Dr. Kalu insists that he did not owe any bank before and after leaving office, can...
View ArticleNEMA Scandal: Analysing the divergent media coverage
Gidado Yushau Shuaib Recent media reports indicate the growing uproar over financial scandals rocking the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) which led to the suspension of some directors by...
View ArticleDoes Buhari love NYSC? (2)
Emmanuel Onwubiko He said: “One of the great things you have demonstrated is that it is possible to live your dream; it is possible to make your dreams not just come true but come true so fabulously...
View ArticleThe President’s alleged gaffe on Nigerian youths
Gbemiga Olakunle “More than 60 percent of the population is below 30. A lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country. Therefore, they should...
View ArticleNigeria’s unemployment burden
Reuben Hopo According to a 2017 Q3 report of the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria recorded its highest ever aggregate unemployment rate rising from 14.2% in the fourth quarter of 2016 to 18.8%....
View Article‘Be careful what you wish for’…
Some politicians have a yearning to be president because of the awesome power and the glamour of the office, but few of them understand the challenge of the job. Such politicians forget that the...
View ArticleNigeria’s killing field and the casualties
Promise Adiele Nigerian poet, John Pepper Clark’s timeless poem The Casualties recalls the gory incidents of the Nigeria/Biafra war which witnessed the worst carnage in the history of Nigeria. In the...
View ArticleCountless killings in the Cathedral
Evaristus Offor Nigeria is on the verge of falling headlong the cliff. Confusion and a anarchy loom over the country. The country is burning and Nigerians are burnt to ashes while those in authority...
View ArticleUnending disputation on sequence of elections
Chris Akiri Nigeria, a putative democracy, with a written constitution, is, or should be, a country governed by the rule of law and the due process of the law. Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Constitution...
View ArticleMelaye’s failed recall
It is no more news that the attempt to recall Senator Dino Melaye, the representative of Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate, collapsed like a pack of badly-stacked cards last Saturday. Reports...
View ArticleWhy Buhari is good for workers
By Garba Shehu Tuesday, May 1 is Worker’s Day all over the world and expectations are that questions will be asked of what Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria is doing to make life better for...
View ArticleHow OGP can put food on Nigerian tables
Bob Majirioghene Etemiku A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at a time in the early 80s after the...
View ArticleStop wanton killing of Benue people
Patrick Abba Moro IT is sad that when other communities in Nigeria are brazing up to the challenges of development, Benue people are burying scores of their own. It would appear that the intractable...
View ArticleAntidote to sleaze in government
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation – Declaration of Santiago in November 2004 aptly said, “Corruption is a serious threat to good governance and deters investment. Therefore, fighting corruption is...
View ArticleHerdsmen’s endless blood lust (2)
In October 2000 when General Muhammadu Buhari literally paralysed the Oyo State Government Secretariat with numerous ‘lorry loads’ of angry Fulani cattle rearers, his grievance, as he told the Oyo...
View ArticleAkhimien and 2019 presidential race
Frank Oshanugor His name may not ring a bell in Nigeria’s comity of contemporary politicians like those we have known over the years because all along, he has not immersed himself in the waters of the...
View ArticleTackling the challenge of education in Bayelsa
Fidelis Soriwei The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has not left anybody in doubt about the determination of his Restoration Government to tackle decisively the challenge of education...
View ArticleUI’s empirical validation of Post-UTME screening
Oludayo Tade Recently, the Senate of the University of Ibadan (UI) approved the withdrawal of 408 students from the University owing to poor academic performance and failure to meet the minimum...
View ArticleNigeria’s worrisome killing field
In the face of the continuous killings of many Nigerians, especially in Benue State and by extension some other states in the North Central zone, we should all be worried. Let us not think that it is a...
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