Issues surrounding the abject neglect and dilapidation of students’ residential halls at the nation’s premier indigenous university have continued to resonate, writes EUCLID AGUNWA
Although the university has put up a public relations stunt in an attempt to puncture claims...
A citation of Rev. Monsignor Raphael Eze (circa 1910–1985) by the Lejja Hall of Fame
A new religion and a new education defined Lejja’s advancement in the 20th century. In that era dominated by the activities of missionaries, colonialists and...
A lecture delivered by poet James Eze to mark the second anniversary of I-Witness Media Group on Thursday, November 5, 2020
I’ll begin this conversation by saying that I am human, Igbo and Nigerian. I became a human being...
Is Muhammadu Buhari in charge of the Nigerian presidency?
That is the question on many lips as Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the EFCC, debunks allegations spread in the media during his nine-day detention and questioning by a presidential...
Being a presentation by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the U.S. State Department in June 2019. The Nigerian presidency recently reacted to this, saying that IPOB was trying to cause a religious war.
The...
In 1997, a brilliant electrical engineer and lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Dr Ezekiel Izuogu, designed and developed the Izuogu Z-600, the first made-in-Africa car. The BBC described it as “the African dream machine”, as 90% of its...
Journalists on their country’s proposed social
media bill
By JONATHAN ROZEN/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher
At a public hearing on Nigeria’s social media bill held in
Abuja last month, the voice of Chris Isiguzo, president of the Nigeria
Union of Journalists (NUJ), rang clearly across...
Being a homily at the funeral Mass of
Seminarian Michael Nnadi of Sokoto Diocese (who was abducted and murdered by
terrorists) at Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna, on February 11, 2020
By MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH
We have gathered around the remains
of Michael in supplication...
Governor
Emeka Ihedioha on the Supreme Court ruling on Imo State governorship election
of March 9, 2019
My dear good people of Imo State,
I address you today, following
recent developments affecting our dear state, and in particular the Supreme
Court judgement of 14th January,...
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES
We can continue to reap profits from
the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods
of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary
weapon of containment....