After japa… When the dream meets reality
THE photograph usually comes first. A young Nigerian stands at the airport, passport in hand, luggage beside him, smiling as family members gather for one last embrace.
Chibok Girls: How conflicting security reports scuttled ceasefire deal
The current efforts by the Nigerian Government to rescue the over 200 girls taken by members of the Boko Haram fighters from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, on April 14 this year, could itself be described as a war of some sort. But after many strident but failed attempts to liberate the captives from their captors, it has become clear to the Nigerian security men that the job requires more than bullets, tanks and fire but more of serious intelligence to keep the malevolent but ingenious men at bay.
An economy on bended knees: Nigeria’s belated contingency economic plan
That was how the PUNCH reported it the following day. The VANGUARD, on its front page, reported the Minister to have said that NIGERIA IS NOT BROKE. Apart from the fact that economics/finance does not recognize the word “broke”, the Minister had, on the one hand, denied there is a serious problem while, on the other hand, admitting there is one.
Rich Churches, Poor Members
By Nkem Jacobs, Chioma Onuegbu, Peter Duru, Juliet Ebirim, Emmanuel Edukugho and Onochie Anibeze In the early days of Christianity in Nigeria the church was at the forefront of society’s development building schools, hospitals, vocational skills acquisition centres, farms and cottage industries, among others. They offered scholarships, gave free books and teaching aids, and gave […]
Ebola – Open Letter to the ECOWAS presidents
AS the spectre of Ebola stalks the world, people everywhere are looking accusingly at the ECOWAS presidents. Like the commandants from whose prison a jailbreak of very dangerous prisoners has just happened, they had better have a damned good explanation of the event or face court martial, etc. The citizens of ECOWAS demand no less. How can these presidents allow such a thing to happen on their watch and disgrace all Africans? Aspersions of all sorts are being cast on us as incompetent to manage our countries.
OIL THEFT, VANDALISM & PIRACY: Navy’s surveillance sensors, battle-ships to the rescue
Before April 2013, when President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the North East states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno because of the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency, other criminal activities like illegal bunkering, oil thievery, piracy and pipeline vandalism were ignored or received less attention. Consequently, the nation has been the worse for it in terms of poor revenue outlay.
