If appointment is given to a woman, a fellow woman will start saying the man is dating the woman and that she did not get the appointment because she merited it, which is one of the reasons I stopped. The Read more…
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Last week’s directive to the security agents by President Muhammadu Buhari to shoot on sight anybody bearing an AK-47 rifle found in the forests and bushes across the country has been generating mixed reactions from Nigerians. During the official decoration of Read more…
At no time in our over 60 years of existence as a nation have we been this divided neither have we experienced this level of inter-ethnic distrust if not outright HATE! The young people in the east, IPOB, are asking Read more…
BY JIMOH IBRAHIM At 64, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a Professor without a Ph.D. degree, must have come ahead of his age in the contemporary times of intellectual politics. In the next few years, he will be out of politics, Read more…
Genocides or mass killings do not just happen. They are usually harbingered by conspiracy theories of ethnic and religious complexions, sentiments, skewed perceptions and assumptions. Are all these ingredients of doom present in today’s Nigeria? Yes, very much so. But Read more…
“Try not to mess this one up,” Tambawalle thought to himself. In the last month, he had attempted to do three operations, but none of them were successful. It was important for him to succeed in the operation he was Read more…
Nigeria’s foremost Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi recently called on the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari to grant amnesty for the bandits the same way Nigerian government granted amnesty to Niger Delta militants who, some years ago, were Read more…
Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo (PhD) The alleged kidnapping of Obi Uruagu, Obi Afam Obi was stuff made of legends, only in this case, it was not fiction but a devastating reality to the family, Uruagu quarter, and Nnewi people in general. Read more…
Comments emanating from different quarters in the country and the recent pronouncements by governors in Nigeria, are all pointing to the fact that the days of open grazing of cattle may have come to an end.Open grazing of cattle is Read more…
On January 28, 2021, the trajectory of Nigeria’s aviation sector, and in fact that of continental Africa, experienced a stride of no mean feat as West Africa’s foremost airline, Air Peace, in its characteristic show of strength, blazed the trail Read more…
A former Director of the Department of State Services, Mike Ejiofor, says the Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd.), is calling for “pure anarchy” with his recent comment that Nigerians should defend themselves amid the security challenges in Read more…
By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo (PhD) The Nigeria government officials have been making pronouncements that Nigerian citizens will be receiving tens of millions of covid-19 vaccines to help her citizens fight off the coronavirus diseases, and possibly deaths. In all these Read more…