The Zamfara killings
A man named his dog “Buhari” and he was quickly arrested, brutalized at the police station, and promptly brought to court, according to the police for constituting public nuisance capable of causing a breakdown in law and order. It was a strange charge, and there was public uproar about the abridgment of the rights of a private citizen, doing the most private of things: naming his personal pet. But the indelicacy of the situation has more to do with the act of naming judged subversive.
The futility and irrationality of revenge (2)
So, let us try to consider as dispassionately as we can, on the basis of available data, whether the first military coup was indeed an Igbo coup, as alleged by some writers such as Isama Elaigwu, in Gowon: The Biography of a Soldier-Statesman and Karl Maier, in This House has Fallen Nigeria: in Crisis. But before we do that, certain basic points must be highlighted.
Millions out of job: Unemployment at ‘boiling up’
Today, one of the major threats to Nigeria’s economic and social stability is the army of unemployed and underemployed people, especially youths, roaming its cities and villages. Such persons, no doubt, constitute huge security risk to the society, as they are willing tools for mischief-makers and of great concern as indeed it can be likened to a volcano on the verge eruption.
Nigeria’s economic woes, self inflicted, says Soludo
A former Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof. Charles Soludo, said, yesterday, that the economic recession Nigeria is experiencing was self inflicted, insisting that oil, for most part of the country, had been a curse.
Poor quintuplets’ horrors: One dead at birth, four detained for unpaid hospital bill …
WHEN Mrs. Chiamaka Ezedienyi, a full time housewife, from the sleepy community of Nnobi in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, gave birth to five babies two years ago, her home became a Mecca of sort as many people travelled from far and near to catch a glimpse of the babies who God brought into the poor home of Mr. Ezedienyi and his wife. One of the babies, however, died shortly after the woman was delivered of them, leaving four who eventually survived.
U-23 Atlanta saga: NOC scribe blames Sports ministry
Bulk passing has been the norm since Nigeria’s Rio 2016 Olympic Sojourn. Accusations shooting out of every corner like deadly pellets from the barrels of some savage high way brigands. Finger pointing lettering the now smoggy Sports climate like the major actors in that charade the Country put up in Brazil was a dance move only it was not amusing.
