Call Sheikh Jingir to order
Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir’s recent outburst was reckless rhetoric and a dangerous provocation that well-meaning Nigerians have condemned. Speaking at the Kano State Government’s mass wedding for 1,500 couples, in the presence of Governors Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano and Umar Namadi of Jigawa, Jingir urged Muslims to sustain the Muslim-Muslim ticket. He referred to […]
Nigerians’ 32m failing kidneys
A MAJOR attempt to draw attention to the increasing cases of kidney failure in Nigeria five years ago, failed. Dr. Augustine Ohwovoriole, President, Diabetic Association of Nigeria had in the light of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s hospitalisation in Germany said there was projected annual growth rate of six to eight per cent in renal failure.
No To Police Brutality
JUSTICE U. P. Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court last week delivered a judgment that should halt security agencies that make brutalising people their duty.
Flood relief fund
THE interim funds the Federal Government released for flood victims throughout the country should be used judiciously, to ameliorate the sufferings unprecedented flooding unleashed on the country. How far the N17.6 billion President Goodluck Jonathan, announced would go, is not as important as the immediacy of the intervention and preventive measures against flooding.
Justice for UNIPORT four
IT is beside the point, whether the four lynched students of the University of Port Harcourt were cultists, serial rapists, or robbers.
For 2015 to be different
NIGERIA is in its longest stretch of civil rule. The 13 years of uninterrupted civilian administration has expanded the yearning for more democratic space in politics and in the handling of our individual and group affairs.
