Opinion

THE SMOKESCREEN NATURE OF THE 2009 ASUU-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT AND WHERE THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIAN HIGHER EDUCATION ARE LOCATED – (PART THREE)

This is the continuation of part two of our Public Information on how less than 5% of Nigerians continued to corner and pocket close to 80% of her public finances on annual basis especially in areas of spurious allowances...

IBORI: VERBATIM STATEMENTS THAT CONTRADICT RIBADU’S $15M BRIBERY ALLEGATION

Details of Statements:: 1; Ribadu’s Nigerian statement: My name is Nuhu Ribadu and I am Chairman of Economic and Fiancial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria. Sometime within the month of April 2007 Mr. James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta...

MAMA NIGERIA: THE PARABLE OF A MOTHER

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"You do not spit it out, and yet you do not swallow it". Addressing the 54th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economic Summit that held in Abuja last week, president Goodluck Jonathan blamed the level of corruption in Nigeria...

200 CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS MASSACRED: NIGERIA BEGS FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY

Over 161 bodies have been recovered in a Benisheik attack staged by Boko Haram last week, on a highway between Maiduguri and Damaturu and another highway attack from Maiduguri to Bamboa. The terrorists came in 20 pickup trucks with...

INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

It has become the stereotypical for Nigerian commentators to deride the nation’s public universities, especially the infrastructural levels of these citadels of learning. Most of the time, these commentaries are not based on the facts on ground at the...

ASUU STRIKE & SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN NIGERIA

This is the continuation of our Public Information, dated 21st of September, 2013, on the smokescreen nature of the ASUU-Federal Government Agreement of 2009 as a solution to the battered standard of higher education in Nigeria. Our main concern...

AS GOVERNMENT FRUSTRATES SURE-P INTO SACKING 111,000…

When the now-rested Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in February this year intimated us that the federal government is diverting the SURE-P money towards prosecuting project 2015, many dismissed the allegation as another political statement lacking in substance. But...

YOUTH IS THE CORNERSTONE FOR TOBACCO CONTROL ACTIVITIES

The ‘International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco’, jointly organized by The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY)...

AUTONOMY FOR LGS, A NECESSITY

Before the National Assembly went on annual recess towards the end of July this year, the Senate and House of Representatives had separately debated and voted on the various items listed for amendment in the constitution. Of all the recommendations...

THE AYODEJI CASE STUDY: WHY YOUNG NIGERIANS SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS

HON. AYODEJI JOSEPH   I have always been an avid believer in the fact that young people should be in government. Not as ball boys, foot soldiers or personal assistants/errand boys but as people who could actually wield the power to...