By Majeed Dahiru In addressing issues surrounding the renewed separatist agitation in the South-East, the president not only failed to reassure Nigerians from that part of the country of his commitment to a just and fair Nigeria where nobody will be marginalised on account of ethnicity, religion, state of origin and
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The bombs that are about to engulf Nigeria, other African nations
By Christopher Okoli For decades, African leaders did their best to continually mismanage the continent’s resources, thereby, contributing to the underdevelopment of the once great continent. However, Military interventions in the governance of member countries helped to create powerfully dreaded, untouchable and fearful dictators that destroyed democratic institutions of checks
Op-ed: Aso Rock’s clinic of infamy
Op-ed: Political repression among northerners
By Aliyu U. Tilde Populist governments throughout history are the most intolerant, brutal and repressive. Remember the communist regimes before in Eastern Europe, Russia, China and even Venezuela today. They are constructed on a raison d'être of self a self-acclaimed virtue in defense of the masses. This false premise gives them
Op-ed: 70 days in Boko Haram captivity, have UNIMAID lecturers been forgotten?
By Fredrick Nwabufo Boko Haram, the dreaded insurgent group has used kidnapping as one of its atrocious instruments of war since 2009. However, the sect gained opprobrious notoriety for the crime of kidnapping when it abducted 276 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, on April 14, 2014. The government
Op-ed: When the police becomes the thief
By Emmanuel Onwubiko The Nigeria Police has a very notorious image which must be cleaned up through fundamental attitudinal transformations of the men and officers of the institution. Apart from the well-known notoriety as being corrupt and excessively bribe taking, some percentages of those enrolled in the Nigeria Police have also entered
Op-ed: That Port Harcourt gathering of analogue Editors
By Austin Maho The much anticipated 13th all Nigerian Editors’ Conference and Extraordinary Convention took place at the presidential hotel Port Harcourt, Rivers State between September 20th to -24th 2017, with the theme “Balancing Professionalism, Advocacy and Business”. At the end of the 5 days exercise a 10 point communique was
Op-ed: Obasanjo -BBC Hardtalk: Why Igbos are Angry with Nigeria
PMB: Theory and practice of Igbo marginalisation
By Emmanuel Onwubiko With mouths aghast, millions of Nigerians and friends of Nigeria from around the globe watched as President Muhammadu Buhari granted his first most important international media interview and made a frightening disclosure. This was barely weeks after he was inaugurated on may 29th 2015 when he honored an
Restructure Nigeria now to avoid ucontrollable crisis -Nwodo
Jude Johnson The President General of apex Igbo organization the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo has warned that Nigeria may be heading into a serious crisis if the clamour for the restructuring of the country is not given a deserved and urgent attention. Ohanaze boss who spoke in Abuja on friday at a live