Okuama: When Political Blame Ignores the Constitution, Fuels Blackmail
By Ufuoma Egbe The tragedy of Okuama has left deep wounds. Families have lost loved ones, a community has suffered devastation, and several Okuama leaders have remained in detention for an agonising period. Their plight deserves justice, compassion and sustained public attention. But precisely because the tragedy is so painful, it must not become an […]
Nexim Sealink Project and intra-ECOWAS trade
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established on May 28, 1975 as a regional trade organization comprising countries in the West African sub-region. The aim of setting up the Community was manifested in its original treaty.
Containing the present emergencies
Rev Chris Okotie’s article titled, “The Fierce Urgency Of Now” which was published on the back page of the Thisday edition of May17, 2013 showed clearly how corruption and crime conflate to create the present state of siege in Nigeria.
Education and human development (II)
This situation has produced an unfortunate symmetry between poor state of public education and levels of poverty.
Proposed automatic tickets: Before Anenih is crucified
ON Thursday, May 30, 2013, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, stirred the polity with a proposal that some people consider controversial:
Our collective selective amnesia
On both sides of the divide, we all agree that we have short memories and easily forget grave injustices. That’s why we are quick to beg for mercy and forgiveness and in the rare case that the aggrieved wants the offender to pay in some way, they are branded ‘evil’, ‘wicked’ or ‘unfair’.
Abia: When evidence marks the end of argument
THERE is a passage very common among the Ibeku people in the present-day Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. It is a passage used to draw home a conviction over an issue in dispute.
Nigerian Prisons, a scar on the nation’s conscience
A TWO-day International Conference on Nigerian Prisons Reforms ended on June 5 at REIZ Continental Hotel Abuja. It was packaged and driven by First Consultancy and Training, a UK-based company.
Tribute: Remembering our compatriots aboard Flight J9 992
LIKE a soothing balm, the voices of Bishop Mathew Kukah and Dr. Kabir Adamu led the nation in prayers.
Youths versus JAMB, education caricature
The youths of our generation are just the most gullible creatures I’ve ever seen. They say change is the most constant phenomenon in life, yet our forefathers in those days did not allow the changes in their time to destroy their education. Every change must have its own by-products. The by-products of our own changes are technological innovations like GSM handsets, internet facilities, social networks like Nimbuzz, 2go, Facebook, Watsapp connect, Twitter, foreign and home movies etc.
June 12: How democratic is our democracy?
YES, it stands out like a sore thumb-and really it is a sore thumb whose exquisite pain throbs and refuses, in all its cabuncular virulence, to go – that is June 12 for you.
