By Simon Kolawole What a year. WhatAyear. What. A. Year. Muddled and fragmented. Masked up and washed up. It was a tasteless year, the year we could barely smell the coffee, the year humanity was severely fatigued. It was the year that soaked our hands in an ocean of sanitizers and distanced us from each […]
There was a huge sigh of relief across the country last Wednesday when the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU] national president Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi announced a “suspension” of his union’s crippling, nine-month-old strike action that has kept all public universities closed even after the country emerged from the pandemic-induced lockdown. Ogunyemi said in Abuja […]
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn Just like that, Nigerian varsity students will continue their contrived holiday due Coronavurus pandemic and ASUU’s action — it is becoming hapless for them. On 20th March,The Federal Ministry of Education has directed all tertiary institutions in Nigeria to shut down and allow students to go home as cases of reported […]
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn An altruistic and magnanimous man who devoted the job to see that many Nigerians are satisfied — Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, Minister of labour, employment and productivity. Ngige saved Nigeria from the asperity and conniption of industrial action in the last 5 years. On 23rd March, Academic Staff union of Universities […]
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn To prioritise the safety of people in the southeast —Leaders in the region have failed in this crucial task, now it has cone through wrong dragons. Operation Amotekun (Leopard) was established on 9 January 2020 by the six state governors of all the South Western states of Nigeria, namely; Lagos State, […]
By Obadiah Mailafia Nothing lasts forever. Except true love as rhapsodised by the poets. Life has taught me that whatever you have to do, do it now and do it with all your might. You must strike while the iron is hot. Because you might never pass through this road again. Today we are here […]
In the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government of area of Yobe state were abducted by Boko Haram and taken into grisly captivity. Five of the girls died in the hands of their captors. But after weeks of negotiations between the government and […]
By Frederick Nwabufo Security is everybody’s business. It is a flawed assumption that issues of security must remain strictly within the orbit of agencies with the lawed responsibility. Even security agencies cannot function without citizens’ alliance and community help. Simply, they cannot operate in vacancy of citizens’ collaboration and the support of stakeholders and other […]
By ibe Pascal Arogorn Till now, I am yet to understand the gains of Nigerian government telling blatant lies to its citizens, especially in the areas of security. Over a week now, the abduction of over 344 Kankara schoolboys is on the thread. On December 11, at about 2am gunmen stormed boys government college in […]
By Femi Adesina Ask for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura, in Katsina State, who turns 78 today. In the build up to the 2015 presidential election, we used to say everything had been thrown at him as projectiles, except the kitchen sink. […]
