Senate’s belated rise against “repentant” terrorists
The Senate has finally given voice to a national outrage that has simmered for too long: Nigeria’s policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating so-called repentant Boko Haram fighters without doing them justice. It has outlived whatever limited utility its creators may once have claimed. A programme that begins with surrender and ends with return to the […]
Needed: (Northern) leaders who act
LAMENTATIONS about poverty are becoming rituals that issue from most gatherings of the North’s leadership.
Fortunately, enough voices within the North blame the region for failing to use 38 years of leading national governments to develop the North. Governor Aliyu Babangida of Niger State shifts the blame to traditional rulers, who he said discourage education.
Some Small Somalia
SOMALIA represents everything about failure. It is the epitome of a failed state. Since the exit of General Said Barre’s government 20 years ago – he later died in Nigeria – Somalia has had no central government. Warlords carve out their space and impose their authority.
Peculiar Jobs Scheme
THE importance of job creation to reduce the scourge of unemployment seems to have dawned heavily on later day political leaders. About three years ago, former Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State launched an ambitious jobs scheme aimed at recruiting 10,000 new hands into the state’s teaching and civil services.
Fuel Subsidy ‘Beneficiaries’
Fuel Subsidy ‘Beneficiaries’THE Senate’s probe of the obvious abuses that surround expenditures on importation of petroleum products will be a waste of time without a focus. What is the Senate probing? What does it intend to achieve?
ASUU – Strikes Don’t Work
UNIVERSITY lecturers in Nigeria, through the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have created for themselves an image of group whose sole interest is strikes. ASUU has started another strike, which it says would be “total and comprehensive.”
