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Can NDC Resolve Growing Concerns in Abia State Before 2027?

Can NDC Resolve Growing Concerns in Abia State Before 2027?

By Phillip Ogbonna As Nigeria gradually moves toward the 2027 general elections, political parties are expected to strengthen their internal structures, inspire confidence among their members, and present themselves as credible alternatives to the electorate. In Abia State, however, concerns are beginning to emerge within the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), prompting important discussions about fairness, inclusiveness, […]
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‘Nigeria’s higher education system produces graduates that do not fit’

‘Nigeria’s higher education system produces graduates that do not fit’

I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and his technical team, field officers and other staff, all the Chief External Examiners who supervised the 2017 UTME, across Nigeria, mostly Vice-Chancellors of universities, and provosts/rectors of polytechnics and colleges of education, in addition to major stakeholders from civil society

To those who threaten to jail Biafrans

To those who threaten to jail Biafrans

A man called Nnamdi Kanu and his movement called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) single-handedly brings the whole of the south-east of our country to a standstill with his one day “stay at home order” and someone in the Presidency says they don’t consider him to be a leader of thought? Clearly the Villa curse has set in.

Why PDP must not die

Why PDP must not die

They must begin to redefine and dictate the current political narrative

Caging the Ijaw Egbesu

Caging the Ijaw Egbesu

Nigeria is the problem of Nigeria; Egbesu is not the problem, not even the other votaries of Egbesu

Arewa quit notice on the Igbo as a way to checkmate the Biafran agitators

Arewa quit notice on the Igbo as a way to checkmate the Biafran agitators

-FOLLOWING a point of order raised by Senator Chukwuka Utazi, PDP, Enugu North over the deployment of Nigerian troops to Gambia by President Muhammadu Buhari without the approval of the Upper chambers, both Senators Rafiu Ibrahim, APC, Kwara South and Adesoji Akanbi, APC, Oyo South said, said Wedesday that the president acted within the ambit of the law.