Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
In this piece, Godwin Adindu, a public affairs analyst and President-General Abia Renaissance Movement, highlights the revolutionary people oriented development projects embarked upon by the visionary administration of the Executive Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji two years after his re-election, and concludes that...
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
By Tochukwu Ezukanma Months later, she was frustrated by lack of progress in the prosecution of the suspects. Crestfallen and confused, it finally, crystallized to her that Nigerian institutions, including the judiciary and the Church, are white sepulchers. On paper, their objectives are superb. But in practice,...
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
By Victor Afam Ogene When news of the passage of Professor Chinualumogu Achebe, the famed writer who, perhaps, more than anyone else told the African story to the world, first filled the air, quite unlike many of his compatriots and admirers worldwide, I ‘refused’ to...
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
By Ike Ekweremadu Paying tribute to a great man like Professor Chinualumogu Achebe is certainly not the kind of race a man runs carrying snuff in his palm. It is a serious task, not for want of great deeds worth mentioning and reflecting on, but...
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
I was alarmed but later bemused when I read about Afenifere’s press conference in the media recently. Seated with Afenifere’s chieftains were Senator Iyiola Omisore and Mr Yinka Odumakin. Mr Odumakin was the vocal spokesperson of the group that broke away from Afenifere. What then...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Nigeria is a blessed nation. Its people are unbelievable. Its leaders are ingenious. Quite very ingenious leaders! From the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to the incumbent Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, our leaders have been incredible. Take, for instance, the late President Umar Sheu...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
My reaction to the recent write-up in one of the Social Media “9ja Community” written by one Femi Falana (not my respected learned friend, hardworking, courageous and humanitarian SAN), was to ignore the write-up by reasons of the many inexactitudes in its constitutional citation and...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, a Lagos based public affairs analyst, frowns at the government approved syllabus of “sex education” that offers unrestrained sex related information to under aged children which promotes sexual promiscuity and destroys their religious and moral values. He calls on government to repudiate the...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
By Nwabueze Ugwu At no time in the political history of Nigeria, except the dark era preceding and during the Biafran debacle, has the nation experienced such an avalanche of security challenges. From the wee days of the Jonathan presidency, there was an over hang...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Ayo Oyoze Baje With the increasing devastating effects of the seasonal, flushing floods about to begin in earnest, the time to start taking concrete, pro-active measures is now. Not tomorrow. Not when the dams have overflowed their capacity and the rivers have swelled their banks,...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By John Ajiboye The rate at which the foreigners are smuggling arms into the country is alarming and it callsfor a serious concern for all and sundry. With the kind of security challenges Nigeria as a nation is facing, we are supposed to be cautious...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Victor Anya, a Lagos based Public Affairs commentator decries the absence of principles, character, and accountability among most Nigerian political parties and politicians, and challenges them to imbibe ideology, internal democracy, and a motive of service to people rather than self aggrandizement… The way and...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By Olumide Ohunayo The Honourable Minister of Aviation recently unveiled the new Nigerian Civil Aviation Policy, CAP, which has attracted more condemnation than commendation. A civil aviation policy document is usually midwifed by the Honourable Minister through the interplay of various stakeholders. This policy did...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
The Community Defence Law Foundation, CDLF, a grass-root based civil society organization that works to introduce and achieve education among youth groups in Nigeria, recently challenged the northern leaders to wake up and do something concrete to support the Federal Government to halt the mass...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By Ademola Orunbon All of the world, the only thing that is permanent is change. Constitutional democracies worldwide made provisions for change in leadership by providing for two-party system or multi-party system. They put this very important clause in place to make way for change...
