Steve Orji, United Kingdom Anyone who has worked in the public or private sector in Nigeria would have had a taste of “ethnic victimisation”, however short-lived. In my case as a serving National youth Corp member, in Delta state, my first taste of it gave me a rather rude shock. It took place in a […]
By Steve Orji A prominent feature of colonised people is the washing away of their important identities in the course of time. Even their self-belief. Identity has much more to do with the intangible attributes of a people than with only their facial or personality peculiarities. Identity cuts deeper into the root and essence of […]
By Femi Fabiyi and Akintokunbo A Adejumo femif826@gmail.com and Akinadejum@aol.com Democracy promotes the same sets of value no matter where it is practiced. Simple definition implies that government is made up of people, and should serve the people. In order to enjoy the fruits (or as we call it in Nigeria, the dividends) of democracy, […]
By Obinna Akukwe The fight between the Association of Igbo Youths (AIYO) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) had taken a new twist with the Igbo Youths giving ultimatum to Uwazurike to evacuate and bury the corpses of slain MASSOB members abandoned in mortuaries between 2003 and 2013. In a […]
Steve Orji, United Kingdom Those who are no longer amused by Nigeria’s crises, simply make them out as last-ditch signs of a failed state. Such expression is natural to people who have had long wait on their nation to come round. Nigeria has been a theatre of perennial crises. The biggest being the civil war […]
By Dr. Tunde Ali National conference is supposed to be a forum where the general public can participate in the polity of their nation by discussing issues that matters to them . It avails the citizens the opportunity to deliberate on different issues of importance, especially those issues that the elected officials have clandestinely neglected […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe Nigerian politicians have carried their blatant disrespect for God and godly behavior to Prayer Camps, Adoration Grounds and Redemption Camps where they constantly desecrate the hallowed environment. Many prayer camps abound in Nigeria including Alone With God Prayer Camp, Abuja, Scripture Union Camp of Faith Okigwe which serves clerics cutting across […]
By Dr. Tunde Ali Regardless of the political insinuations from all quarters about the need or call for National Conference, the reality of the season dictates that Nigerians must come together to discuss and re-determine the status of Nigerian nation amidst its shaky unity and polarized diversity. The meeting does not necessarily have to be […]
By Obinna Akukwe Bishops, Pastors and Church leaders attending the Lousanne Congress 2013 holding at Wisdom Cathedral, Abuja has unanimously agreed that Christianity in Nigeria is under heavy attacks and assaults by ethnocentrism, militancy, homosexualism, materialism and worldliness. They warned that if the church failed to address these issues, they will lose their saltiness and […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The world has been shrinking and coming together through the social media and internet much faster than many African leaders would desire. An index of good governance in Africa has been the Mo Ibrahim Annual Award for good leadership in Africa but which has no winner since […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe Politicians of Nigerian extraction have the penchant to run down enemies until they have been crushed by a moving trailer, ciourtesy of their spirit of unforgiveness. Unforgiveness, by my observation, is a spirit which keeps reminding one of the wrong, injury done by the other party even when it is illogical, […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi. University of Ilorin, Nigeria The Academic Staff of Universities Union (ASUU) of Nigeria embarked on industrial strike in most government owned universities in Nigeria since July 1, 2013. ASUU did so because the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), and their employers, signed some working condition with them after a similar industrial […]
By Dr. Tunde Ali, Nigeria internal security is in disarray. Boko Harram have exposed the incompetence of President Jonathan’s administration to provide reasonable security of live and property to the Nigerian people as promised when he was sworn into office. The job of the government is not only to promote and protect the welfare of its […]
By Steve Orji, United Kingdom Nigeria today presents test ground for numerous conjectures. There have been many frightening interpretations of happenings in our nation, almost foreboding an inevitable catastrophe. The reasons for such fears are natural. Security incidents and upscale ethnic-inspired violence are common signs of weak cohesive strengths, if not breakdowns. Handfuls of “prophecies” […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria As school pupils on October 1, 1960, we were organised on lines and given a flag each to wave as some government officials took the salutes. It was memorable and joyful. My father was a local government councillor (1948 -1962) in Kabba Native Authority. I was on […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo Laughter, they say is the best medicine. Let’s take a comic look at our predicament in Nigeria The good state of Bayelsa proclaimed to the world on car number plates that it is the ‘The Glory of All Lands’ but has now been renamed “Pride of the Nation.” Thank God, their […]
By Dr Tunde Ali Our democracy is being tested. It consistently undergoes constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. In the process, ideas battles with ideals, constructions feuds with confusion and opinions confronts ideology. Though the process is intriguing, its outcomes are short of the peoples’ expectations. Never-the-less, its progress could be surmise to be the necessary recipe […]
By Steve Orji Good leadership is not a work of fiction. Good leadership is about productive expressions. Actions by someone or group of persons that affects the day-to-day life of the commoners-those who in their lifetime, may never have direct contact with the people who make crucial decisions that affect their life and well-being. Perhaps […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The lecturers in most of the nation’s public universities commenced industrial action last July 1, 2013 to demand the implementation of the 2009 agreement they signed with Federal Government of Nigeria FGN. Most people would agree that universities are poorly funded but no one is coming up […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The ongoing political wrangling involving realignments of some groups, now calling themselves APC, or the decamping of others from the ruling PDP party and calling themselves New PDP, is just the beginning of a more serious undercurrent problems worse things to come and index of our political […]
