Opinion

UNEMPLOYMENT IN RIVERS AND AMAECHI’S MAGIC WAND

I am sure that many watchers of political events in Rivers State would not have imagined that the political crisis rocking that state could last this long, especially against the backdrop that members of the clergy, traditional rulers, civil...

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

…thoughts on the Nigerian Dream Exactly 40 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr gave that historic speech when he led thousands to march on Washington for civil rights and jobs; a black senator from the state of Chicago accepted...

WHO IS AFRAID OF HON KA’AMUNA IBRAHIM KHADI

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It may be surprising why this article is titled; WHO IS AFRAID OF HON.KA’AMUNA IBRAHIM KHADI. We the above named group has decided to respond to what we considered a blackmail and image tarnishing against the person of Hon....

TUBERCULOSIS, THE BURNING BUSH, AND NORTH OF NIGERIA

In 1976, writing under the topic "initial resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis in northern nigeria". Both fawcett iw, watkins bj stated that "of 61 isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis form patients in northern nigeria denying any previous treatment for tuberculosis 7...

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH ASUU?

As an undergraduate, having experienced firsthand the rot that pervades our universities, I became a keen sympathiser with the cause of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU). I believe that university teachers have the right to good...

WHY THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT?

In my usual manner, may I use this medium to associate with Civil Servants against the incessant threats of sack and terrorization as enacted by the civil service laws of the Federal Republic and I think it is most...

DEMOCRATIC VIOLENCE: 1000-STRONG BUDDHIST MOBS TORCH MUSLIM HOMES IN MYANMAR

My recent article, “When Democracy Fails,” introduced the seldom analyzed dangerous outcomes of democracy today with focus on ethno-incongruous Africa. In the day’s news, over 1000 Buddhist’s, in a wave of renewed religious violence, razed over 50 “Muslim” homes and...

NIGERIA OBITUARY OF NO DECENSY STANDARD OR CLASS: NOT YET

How has the mighty fallen? Below our worst prediction or fear but there are people still standing unbowed to the vast decadence around us. Sometimes it takes some foreign observers to shock us into reality like the documentaries of...

THE PARLIAMENTARY FIX TO OUR BROKEN DEMOCRACY – “THE GIFT OF PARROT’S EGGS”

‘Tribalism and democracy are incompatible,’ Dr Elizabeth Rata, associate professor in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Auckland and member of New Zealand’s Independent Constitutional Review Panel, said this January. In contrast to Africa, most European...

ESE WALTER AND PASTOR FATOYINBO SCANDAL: BETWEEN SCHADENFREUDE AND FAIR OPINION

I have taken a break from mass media for a while to take care of some personal projects. However, I have been so harangued by the sex scandal involving Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and Ese Walter that I think I...