By Issachar Odion The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has overstepped the bounds of reason. To say that most discerning Nigerians are angry with the union is an understatement. Whoever anticipated that ASUU’s show of shame would last this long? At first, we all sympathised with the pedagogues, thinking they were protesting to secure […]
By Chigozie Chikere Until Wiki Leaks came along, the Pentagon Papers published by New York Times was for the past four decades the largest leak of classified documents in American history. Though Barack Obama had promised Americans the most transparent administration in history, the vigour with which he has pursued leakers since the floating of […]
By Uche Igwe Sometime last month when the issues at the Nigerian Population Commission started gathering momentum, I hurried into Abuja and tried to meet with the now former Chairman Eze Festus Odimegwu. It was a tough one to get his telephone numbers but I was determined. After two days of fruitless search, a top executive […]
Chigozie Chikere Since 2005, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Aviation has had no fewer that six Ministers. Three of them lasted less than a year. The self-serving Femi Fani-Kayode who was dismissed in 2007 managed a grande total of 209 days. Particularly dispiriting about Fani-kayode’s dismissal is that it looked as if it marked the beginning […]
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The cerebral Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, captured it succinctly in a recent interview wherein he described the proposed National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan as a coup against the opposition. Indeed, traditional opposition elements, especially from the Southwest, who never expected such proposition from Jonathan, had no choice other […]
By Uche Ugboajah Since the President, Goodluck Jonathan, announced some days ago his decision to give the Nigerian people-what they have been demanding over the years-the opportunity to dialogue over the Nigerian state, the true colours of statesmen and pretenders have started to unravel. For years, some politicians have shot into national limelight masquerading as democracy […]
By Uche Igwe I am intimately connected to Anambra State. My wife Chukwunonso hails from there. However my interest in Anambra state goes slightly beyond the type an ordinary in-law should have. I love the entertainment of their politics. It stands out as an intriguing theatre of absurdities. Mostly unpredictable, always filled with uncertainty, sometimes […]
By Francis Ehigiator Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently launched a major attack against the National Conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan: he questioned the president’s sincerity and capability to organize such a conference. Tinubu did not stop there; he took liberty-in typical opposition manner-to take elaborate swipes […]
Leo Igwe This is another reason why you should raise your voice in protest against Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s planned tour of the Pacific in November. We need to end witch hunting around the globe. Witch persecution ended in Europe and most parts of western world centuries ago. But this violent campaign continues in many regions of the […]
By Uche Igwe In recent months I have had a cause to comment on several issues concerning Rivers State. This is because these happenings have far reaching significance beyond the geographic confines of that state. I am heartened that prominent Nigerians like former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and […]
By Omozuwa, Gabriel Osamwonyi Nigeria’s unenviable status of development is often attributed to the divisive politics of recycled leaders. Their abject failure to embrace the spirit of innovation and cooperation, and become a unifying force for national transformation has endangered the stability, peace and progress of Nigeria. Hence, there is a growing clamour for generational […]
Fredrick Nwabufo A studied view of some Nigerian workers brings to the pellucid surface flotsam and jetsam of brazen and utter disregard for work ethics and professionalism. Pragmatic and religious observance of even common nuances, forms and rules of the work ethic vademecum seems to be a mountainous task for a motley depressing number of […]
By Chido Onumah During his Independence Day broadcast on October 1, President Goodluck Jonathan announced to a somewhat surprised nation his intention to facilitate a “national dialogue” on the future of Nigeria. To this end, he set up a 13-member Advisory Committee which was inaugurated a few days ago. It is understandable if Nigerians have […]
By Chigozie Chikere, Lagos It was the thriller maestro James Hadley Chase who wrote the novel, A Coffin from Hong Kong, in which Nelson Ryan a private investigator arrives his office to discover a dead Chinese girl, obviously murdered. With this development, Ryan is pitched right into the teeming and sordid nightlife of Hong Kong to […]
Ignatius Okpara Operatives of the special Anti Robbery Squad SARS of the Enugu state police command on Tuesday nabbed a notorious suspected cult kingpin identified as Mba Chukwuemeka popularly known as “Dontiti” of the vikings confraternity. He was arrested by the operatives at about 7pm at Ngwo community, in Enugu North council area of the […]
By Emmanuel Onwubiko Before the coming of Ms. Stella Odua as minister of Aviation, the Nigerian Aviation sector was like a hell on Earth because of the frequency of air disasters and other associated impunity that made our nation’s airspace to become so notorious in the comity of nations. A little over a year since […]
By Umar Ndukwe In what seems to be a breakout from the ‘microphone saga’ last two years in Ebonyi State, in which Muslims in the state were allegedly banned from using the loud speaker to call for their prayers, there is another lingering religious upheaval latently engineered by a group of people in Ezi Egwu […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo Salisu nestles under a baobab tree which is at the centre of Kagua village, Bize in Borno state, Nigeria. It is a sunless afternoon. The humming wind cruises right about him, and dry leaves touchdown as if betokening the grave and sad atmosphere. Crestfallen and utterly devastated, Salisu ponders on his life which […]
By Nnaji Obed Asiegbu The onus of developing Abia State lies on her citizens and that is why His Excellency, Governor Theodore Orji in his Independence Day speech urged all Abians to support his administration’s effort at bequeathing an enduring legacy for future generations. Governor Orji through his legacy projects in the State is seeking […]
By Keith Ebiuwe In my over five decades on mother earth, I have never comprehended the import of the cliché ‘’never judge a book by its cover” until by divine providence, I met Rt Hon Victor Onyekachi Ochei, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, during the recent Annual Conference of the Nigerian Guild of […]
