By ANIEBO NWAMU*
Record keepers say public universities have, since 1999, been shut down 16 times for a period totalling 62 months (more than five years) and still counting. That sounds like a death knell for an education system that has...
By ANIEBO NWAMU*
In recent times, we’ve seen videos showing thousands of permanent voter cards dumped in gutters and bushes in different parts of Nigeria. The videos posted on social media were made by eyewitnesses who testified that they saw...
BY ANIEBO NWAMU*
Peter Obi once compared Nigeria to a car without a brain box. The right thing to do, he said, is fix the car first before you change the driver.This metaphor for the country Obi now aspires to...
By ANIEBO NWAMU*
In solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), organized labour represented by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) hopes to stage nationwide protests next Tuesday and Wednesday. NLC president Ayuba Wabba is expected to lead the...
By TOLA ADENIYI
The selfish and self-centred Nigerian political leadership and their short-sighted collaborators are gearing up for the rituals and rigours of elections regardless of the humongous unresolved maladies in the land. It is needless recounting or listing the...
By ANIEBO NWAMU
Since my fixation in recent years has been on development, particularly job-creation strategies, I wish to affirm that, at last, the federal government is toeing the line we’ve canvassed for years. We’ve knocked the National Social Investment...
By KENNETH EZEA
On Sunday, January 10, 2021, Princess Paschaline Chidinma Odume from Udi, Enugu state, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, returned from church service and went out to buy...
By OBADIAH MAILAFIA*
Nigeria is dying. A dying elephant encircled by vultures and hyenas. Waiting to feast on the carcass. A fractured, broken nation. The ghost continues to limp aimlessly in the shadows. The question is: Who will bury it?
Every...
By ANIEBO NWAMU
For little known reasons, the Nigerian Navy has been getting bad press in recent times. I will cite at least four storms behind, upon and ahead the navy ship. It has weathered one or two, and it...
By ANIEBO NWAMU
My belief in the efficacy of market forces as the cure for voodoo economics remains unshaken. And so I welcome the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which came into effect this Monday. What irks me is its lateness...