ABSU: Running a university as a local village contraption, by Owei Lakemfa
Professor Nnamdi Chinwendu Nwaeze holds three degrees in economics, all with distinction. When, on August 11, 2026, lecturers of the Abia State University, ABSU, where he professes, went on strike, he applied his economics profession by comparing the N400,000 some of the lecturers are paid with the income of the commercial tricyclist who makes an average […]
Orphans of the African continent
FIVE million fellow Africans in Western Cameroon are between the hard hitting hammer of the Cameroonian military and security forces, and the anvil of an armed opposition that has risen to defend the victims. With unending military operations, life for these people has become a vicious cycle of harassment, arrests, torture, mass murders, disappearances and mass displacement.
PDP convention: Bayelsa delegates’ll adopt common position —Dickson
Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has said that delegates of the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would adopt a common position and cast their votes en bloc for the candidate with courage and capacity to restructure Nigeria.
Sultan blames money politics on corruption
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that money- based politics was a major factor responsible for unprecedented corruption and bad governance in the country.
The human disease called Trust Deficit Disorder
The human disease called Trust Deficit Disorder
The Whites and what colonialism did to us
SEPTEMBER is a special month for the family of Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi, the matchless fighter for the Nigerian poor who committed his 45-year legal practice, wealth and life to the emancipation of the Nigerian people. For his beliefs, doggedness and commitment to social justice, he was jailed intermittently from the 1970s over a period of two decades with his library and chambers burnt.
Our victories in the Horn of Africa
QUITE often, the news oozing out of Africa are those of booming guns, rumblings of hunger, cries of children, sighs of adults and the forlorn look of the aged and, of course, an inept leadership that has turned the continent into the headquarters of human poverty. But the news in the last few days and weeks are also of African leaders putting on their thinking caps to bring peace, as a step towards greater unity and development.
Rescuing Nigeria from its leaders
By Owei Lakemfa INTELLECTUALS and academics from 14 universities who gathered at the University of Abuja on September 5 to discuss the seemingly insoluble problems of the country, concluded that Nigeria has to be rescued from its leaders. They poured in from the universities in Minna, Akwa Ibom, Benin, Ekpoma, Ado Ekiti, Port Harcourt, Sokoto, […]
When the Dollar dies
THE ongoing debate, fake news and propaganda against China-African relations, loans and economic cooperation, are essentially diversions. The reality is that the West, especially America, is in a panic mode over China in Africa.
Sorry, I am a Nigerian, not a politician
Can it be a confirmation that in Nigeria, democracy is the government of the rich, by the rich, in the name of the poor?
We know our friends, our friends know themselves
IN Africa, we welcome any visitor even if he is not a friend. We offer our visitors water and a seat. That is why the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK, Theresa May was welcome when she came out visiting South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Also, for those who are our friends, we go looking for them even if their homes are at the other end of the world. An African proverb says it is someone you do not love, you make excuses that you are unable to visit his home because it is far away. That is why it did not surprise me that all but one African country, were this week in China for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC.
Rule of the lawless
JOURNALISTS in the country under the banner of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, poured into the streets of our country on Thursday, August 30, to protest against the unceasing attacks, incarceration and intimidation of journalists by security agencies.
I stand by Saraki, I sit with Ajimobi
SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, a light heavy weight politician has punched his way up the political ladder with memorable knockouts. His rise is so phenomenal that he has quickly moved to the heavy weight category.
The African Road to China
THE African leaders journey to Beijing, for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC, holding from September 3-4, 2018, actually began fifty three years ago. That was at the infancy of our independence. In 1960 alone, seventeen African countries had gained independence. Tanzania became independent in 1961 and Zambia, four years later. Both faced the same challenge of development, lifting Africans out of poverty, and the underdevelopment foisted on them by colonialism.
The truth is no defence
WHEN I read the Interim Investigation Report of Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, NPM, mni to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the August 7 invasion of the National Assembly by the Department of State Services, DSS, I concluded it was a fake document.
Trying to make some sense of the world
AMERICAN, Richard Russell, 29, was what you could call a normal guy. Married with a son, he was a Horizon Air ground control staff, directing aircraft and handling baggage.
