Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
Enough of this division in the Body of Christ
It is with great pain, that we of the Christian Awareness Initiative of Nigeria (CHAIN) read the statements credited to the Association of Christian Theologians (ACTS) which was published in the media on Saturday, November 23, 2013 and stating that ACTS was of the view that the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, “could not be trusted to present the views of Nigerian Christians at the conference.”
Imo governorship: No to restriction of Okigwe zone
On Sunday, November 10, 2013, the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu, hosted a kindred meeting of a select group of leaders in Okigwe zone in his country home in Umukabia, Ehime-Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State.
Diezani Alison-Madueke and the burden of leadership
A LOOK at Diezani Alison- Madueke, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, would naturally provoke either a sense of admiration or that of envy. Before she came into public service, Diezani was as comely as she is today. She has a verifiable pedigree.
The many doors of 32-day Calabar festival
There is no doubt that Cross Riverians from all walks of life and indeed fans of CrossRiverState are eagerly looking forward to this year’s Calabar Festival, which usually begins and ends within 32 days in the month of December.
Kolanut to Nigeria’s constitution advisory committee
African Independent Television, AIT, made life-broadcasts of the zonal sittings of Nigeria’s Constitution Advisory Committee. I did not know they did that until callers drew my attention to it. I had just made, on behalf of the Obowu Development Association, a presentation to the Committee sitting at Umuahia. It was on Obowu people’s thoughts on the agenda and modalities for the conference.
A tale of two operations
ON a hot, sweaty May 1958 afternoon, two adults and one adolescent stood in front of a room on the balcony at Tedder Hall in UniversityCollege, Ibadan. Posted on the door was the bold notice in capital letters: “OPERATION LONDON, 33 DAYS”. Silence and bewilderment; then solemnity.
ASUU and FG’s ultimatum
The media calls it breaking news. The news is that the Federal Government has given the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, one week ultimatum to call off the ongoing strike. The acting Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, stated this while briefing journalists in Abuja.
FG’s sack threat to ASUU: A throwback to the dark era of military rule
The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, considers the threat by the Federal Government to sack striking academic staff of public universities unless they resume duties on or before December 4 as the height of Dr Goodluck Jonathan presidency’s creeping dictatorship.
Who will save Anambra from itself
The issue of AnambraState is a classical case study of a paradox. A state with so much potentials in both human and material resources struggling to find a headway. A state that has produced great leaders for Nigeria -Azikiwes, Okigbos, Ekwensis, Ekwuemes, Anyaokus, Ojukwus and many others, finding it difficult to get leadership to pilot its affairs.
Stella Oduah’s awful reward for selfless service
Private sector champions who have forayed into Nigeria’s politics would attest to the fact that their lives have never remained the same since their arrival in the jungle.
Conflict resolution in marriage
In the 70s when we were very young one of my brothers used to recount how he overheard a man telling another that if spouses do not quarrel in their marriage, it means one is being cheated. As time went on this statement became a recurring decimal…
Tributes to my brother and friend
Mike and I met at the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) as young cadets in 1967, and we became inseparable course mates, friends and confidants. Together, we confronted the challenges of those days with determination to make success of our lives.
LASTMA and Lagos roads to Hell
TO some people, mere mention of Hell fills them with grief or relief depending on which side of the divide you belong. While to some, there is nothing like Hell not to mention Heaven. This also depends on one’s faith.
The deflated balloons of Anambra State
The mass media have been described as the Fourth Estate of the Realm in a democratic society. This is because of its importance in educating, informing and enlightening the populace about the goings on in the other three arms – Legislature, Executive and Judiciary.
Christmas and wanton revelry
The reason for the Christmas season is the commemoration of the glorious birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ. Although, the exact date of His birth remains an issue of great scholastic saber-rattling, one infallible truth that stands with unshakeable firmness is that Christ is the immaculate quintessence of love.
