In today’s Nigeria, from the Chibok girls to Dapchi to Jangegbe to Kankara, to all other schools in states, children are again bearing the brunt of adult failures to provide an environment for them to live their lives in safety and freedom.

By Donu Kogbara SINCE the Taliban triumphantly marched into Kabul nearly a fortnight ago, many people have gloomily predicted that Nigeria will suffer a similar dire fate at some point in the not-too-distant future. After all, we too have deadly vipers in our collective bosom, as in home-grown and foreign Talibanesque Islamic extremists – ISIS, Al […]

By Donu Kogbara LAST week on this page, I expressed the view that Nigeria could have produced a COVID vaccine if our government was seriously focusing on the need to transform this country into a real Giant Of Africa. Jonas Odocha (jonas.odocha@yahoo.com), a former Group General Manager at NNPC, the state oil company, responded thus: Dear […]

By Donu Kogbara WHEN I was a teenager, my father bought me a poster that I stuck on my bedroom wall. The words emblazoned on it were: “Sometimes, I look at things that are and I ask myself ‘why?’ At other times, I think about things that aren’t and ask myself ‘why not?’” That poster […]

By Donu Kogbara SENATOR Godswill Akpabio, the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, has been controversial and embattled – to put it mildly! – since he became Minister of Niger Delta Affairs in 2019. First, he got presidential approval to initiate a “forensic audit” of the notoriously tangled finances and opaque operations of the Niger Delta […]