Beyond Gov. Otti’s N1bn gift to teachers
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State deserves commendation for placing teachers at the centre of the state’s development agenda. On October 5, 2026, at the Michael Okpara Event Centre, Umuahia, during the 2026 World Teachers’ Day celebration, he announced a N1 billion Teachers’ Appreciation Fund, to be shared equally among teachers. He also ordered payment […]
Buhari’s reward to 1994 Super Eagles
Last week, President Mohammadu Buhari approved the allocation of three-bedroom houses to each member of the 1994 national football team, the Super Eagles, and their officials, dead or alive. The President’s gesture was in fulfillment of a 27-year-old promise the federal military government under the late General Sani Abacha made to members of the squad […]
Urgent actions needed to save the earth
OUR planet is dying faster than we realise. This is the latest message contained in a new paper published on January 13, 2021 by a team of 17 US, Mexico and Australia-based researchers in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science. The scientists, like their colleagues had done in the past, are calling the attention of […]
Herders’ crisis: Northern governors must act
THE admission, at last, by the Northern States Governors’ Forum that open grazing has become “unsustainable” is long overdue but welcome. The question now is whether these governors who manage the states where the Nigerians among the livestock herdsmen hail from are now willing to go beyond rhetoric and take necessary actions? Are they ready […]
Nigeria’s dream of renewable energy revolution (1)
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on September 24, 2019 in New York during the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, expressed Nigeria’s hope to have at least 30 per cent of its total electricity supply from renewable sources by 2030. Also, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, re-echoed the hope recently at the inauguration of a 1.12MW […]
Funding Nigerians’ education abroad with illicit funds
IT has long been public knowledge that most occupants of political offices in Nigeria send their children to schools abroad due to the virtual collapse of quality education in Nigeria. A non-resident scholar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Matthew Page (who is described as “a Nigerian”), in a study titled: “West African Elites’ […]
