How Onyejeocha ran Nigeria’s toughest Ministry, and why she deserves a return to the House
By Emameh Gabriel When Nkeiruka Onyejeocha left the National Assembly for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, seasoned watchers of Nigeria’s political terrain knew what she was walking into. Labour is not a ministry for the faint-hearted. It is the pressure point where the aspirations of Nigeria’s teeming workforce collide with the fiscal realities […]
Akeredolu and his Safety net
There is no doubting the fact that human needs are insatiable. Nature bequeathed on every human being to meet their arrays of needs; to be at peace with oneself, neighbours, and the society at large. Unfortunately, the social exchange between citizens and their leaders in terms of these needs is usually flawed and lopsided. While the citizens are often at the receiving ends of the needs imbalance, the government enjoys Pyrrhic victory. Most third world nations seem to fit into this simple but belligerent equation. However, there is a particular need when if not met might put a clog in the wheel of the smooth running of human society-it is the need to be alive!
Setting up a Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria: What we need to know
By Avril Eyewu-Edero Every time there is a major crime incident in Nigeria, people ask the question, why are we not using forensics to solve this crime instead of the mainly circumstantial evidence we use, the lack of it as continue to lead to cases stalling, wrong people getting convicted and the guilty party walking […]
Schools resumption and flattening the COVID-19 curve
By Oluwatosin Ojebisi MANY teachers have had to grapple with the impact of the unprecedented coronavirus disease, COVID-19, which made schools all over the world to shutdown activities and adopt the online form of learning. But, having realised that online learning comes with its challenges and may not be sustainable especially in communities that lack […]
Education tool for economic development in the face of COVID-19
By Robinson Agaga ACCORDING to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, “illiteracy and poverty constitute a mutually-reinforcing vicious cycle that is difficult to break”. This is because illiteracy and poverty deny people access to information, knowledge and data. September 8 was declared the International Literacy Day by UNESCO in 1965. The aim […]
Remembering Azu Emuchay
*From Govt. College Umuahia days till . . . By Gabe Igboko I came to know Azu Emuchay in 1972 when he was admitted into Government College Umuahia as a class one student. His elder brother, Chika (Emuchay C.) and I were friends and classmates and in class two, having gotten into that esteemed institution […]
