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 […]
Will Nigeria-led ECOWAS be a footnote to the French in Mali?
MALI is one of the Achilles heels of the territorial arrangements of the global inter-state order. And Africa is the region where opportunities for re-drawing of the global political map is most fecund. Al Qaeda’s search for a regional space for its global anti-secular anti-westernisation Islamist statecraft is a fundamental interest in the politics of the Malian crisis.
Youth as a foundation for development
Permit me to go back to Marakech, Morocco, venue of the just ended 10th Africa Under 17 Championship.
Unemployment, fuel prices and purchasing power of incomes the real challenges before labour
President Goodluck Jonathan, State Governors and members of the Legislature last week celebrated May Day with organized Labour, with the usual spectacle of march-pasts and copious speeches! Labour, on one hand, demanded for positive results in the areas of employment, security and corruption, so that the Nigerian economy can thrive and soar from the impact of such good Governance.
Updates on Ministry of Trade and Investments
In a few weeks time, the Jonathan administration would have completed its second year in office after the 2011 elections – although it will also mean that President Jonathan would have completed his third year as President. It is time to take stock; to ask what has been achieved and what remains to be done.
FG’s “suicide mission”
THE moment the Sultan called for amnesty for Boko Haram, I knew Nigeria was headed for bigger trouble. It was a major shifting of grounds by His Eminence, Mohammed Abubakar Sa’ad III, the Sultan of Sokoto and the head of the Nigerian Muslim community. His earlier stance in public forums both in Nigeria and abroad was that the sect was evil, and their mission un-Islamic, with strong support for the security forces to decision them accordingly.
