Arrogance Personified, by Donu Kogbara
Mary Habila, a young nurse on secondment from a federal teaching hospital named after him, was found unconscious on June 27th in a building owned by the Minister of Works, David Umahi. According to eyewitness accounts, she was naked, blood was oozing from her nose and mouth and she died en route to the hospital. The […]
Good presidential move!
By Donu Kogbara RECENTLY, I accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not being the kind of strict disciplinarian who can cure Nigeria of multiple ills. Some Vanguard readers contacted me to say that they disagreed with me because Buhari’s administration has been extremely strict in its dealings with VIPs it regards as miscreants – for example, […]
Child activists
Weeks back, I told you about Greta Thunberg, a passionate teenage activist from Sweden who took to the stage at the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, gathering in New York and blasted world leaders for failing to take climate change seriously.
from New York
I AM writing this week’s column from New York. I came to America’s most dynamic and cosmopolitan city to hover on the fringes of the annual United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, meeting.
The other side of the story
I HAVE quite a few bitter gripes against South Africa at the moment and roundly condemn the shoddy treatment I have recently received from the South African High Commission in Abuja and the evil thugs who have killed and bankrupted blameless Nigerians in South Africa.
So unfair
EARLIER on this week, students at the Federal University in Oye-Ekiti took to the streets to furiously protest about constant power outages on their two campus and in surrounding host communities.
