Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
EFCC versus Okorocha
MEMBERS of the public, especially the youth, have a lot to learn from the daylight drama that played out in the Asokoro, Abuja home of Senator Anayo Rochas Okorocha. On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after hours of siege to Okorocha’s premises, broke into his house through […]
Deborah Samuel: Unfinished businesses
WE are dissatisfied with steps taken so far in dealing with the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, over alleged “blasphemy” of Prophet Mohammed, SAW. From the look of things, government and some individuals and groups in the North want to quickly dispense with […]
Our rising out-of-school numbers
IN June 2013, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, EAGMR, announced that Nigeria had become the country with the highest population of out-of-school children in the world with 10.5 million children. Other countries named in the report were: Pakistan 5.1m, Ethiopia 2.4m, India 2.3m, and others. […]
Tackling our medical brain drain
EARLIER in August this year, the Saudi Arabia government sent its agents to Abuja, our nation’s capital, to recruit Nigerian doctors. The Muhammadu Buhari regime saw it as a slap on its face. It sent a posse of security operatives to halt the exercise. But in a twist of logic, the Minister for Labour and […]
Economic vandals crippling Nigeria
THE March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack by bandit-terrorists served the notice that terrorists have joined the horde of economic saboteurs emasculating the comatose railway system which we are trying to revive. The Railway Police Command on April 27, 2022, hauled in 14 suspects, including Sirajo Suleiman, a Sergeant of the Nigerian Army Central Ammunition […]
