By ABBA MAHMOOD –
Tomorrow, November 17, it will be exactly 24 years since General Sani Abacha took over power from Chief Ernest Shonekan, the head of the Interim National Government set up after the annulment of the June 12,...
By ANIEBO NWAMU*
In his sixth year as Nigeria’s minister of science and technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu last Friday announced with glee the renaming of his ministry. With President Buhari’s assent, it’s now the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation...
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...
Now I know why the rich and the not-so-rich of Nigeria reach for the airport at the first sign of illness. In recent times, two of my friends have lost their wives to Nigerian doctors in Nigerian hospitals. The...
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 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 JOSEPH B WINFUL
Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, the father of the country’s economic miracle of the last 50 years, was a frequent visitor to Africa in the 1960s. On one such trip in 1964, he...
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 ABBA MAHMOOD –
It’s exactly 19 years since Nigeria’s head of state General Sani Abacha died in office; he became the first Nigerian leader to do so in a non-coup d’etat. He took over power on November 17, 1993,...