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 […]
Further Threat To Education
MINISTER of State for Education Mr. Kenneth Gbagi’s advice to heads of higher institutions to grant their students leave at weekends to register at their homes for the April elections is introducing further dislocation to the dissonance that government has introduced in education since the beginning of the year.
Southern Sudan – Something Soothing
THE peaceful conclusion of the referendum in Southern Sudan is soothing news to those who expected violence would mar the exercise. It is cheery news in a continent that has consistently proved its inability to reach consensus through the ballot box.
Jos Mayhem Just Normal
IS it possible that Nigeria is tired of news of killings in Jos? Have these killings become too many that they are significant only when the figures are higher than 100? Is criminality now determined by intensity rather than the fact that crimes are committed in the first?
Tunisian Turmoil – People’s Power Works
STREET protests evicted the 23-year-old government of Ben Ali in Tunisia and are continuing as the people demand fundamental changes in the way their government treats them. It is left for scholars to situate this manner of change, but the fact remains that people’s power still works much to the fright of oppressive governments.
Escalating Cost Of Governments
WHEN high cost of governments was an issue last year, it was principally located in the jumbo pays the National Assembly instituted for its privileged 468 members. It is therefore refreshing to extend the debate to other areas of government.
