Nigeria @66: The Otu Record — Beyond the Rhetoric
By Joseph Odok As Nigeria marks 66 years of independence, the anniversary offers more than an occasion for patriotic speeches. It is also an opportunity to ask a practical question at the sub-national level: what has government actually done with the resources and opportunities available to it?In Cross River State, Governor Bassey Edet Otu’s administration […]
Inside the Catholic University
When choosing to attend an institution and continue one’s education, parents and students often look for an environment in which their values and mission are supported and encouraged by their peers and administrators. Many parents feel more comfortable sending their children to a faith-based institution because of certain social vices among youths of today.
Justice Ademola: Between Media trial and Court trial
After the clampdown on some of the judges, the DSS regaled us with titilating stories of humogous cash discoveries in the house of Justice Niyi Ademola, judge of the Federal High court
The march of the ethnic nationalists and a friendly warning for the British and French ambassadors (1)
In 1941 during the course of the Second World War, the most famous alumna of my old school Harrow and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Winston Churchill, said the following words to General Bernard Montgomery, who was also known as the “Spartan General”, the hero of the Battle of Alamein, the Commander of the famous British Desert Rats and the Field Marshall of the British Armed Forces. He said,
Saving the APC house from falling
IT is clearly no longer a matter of intuition for any discerning mind to know that the presidency and the 8th National Assembly (NASS) are at daggers drawn, and, have booby traps set and waiting for unguided moments to take revenge. From the presidency’s bare-faced disdain for NASS and insistence that they confirm the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, despite what NASS says is a damning report by the Directorate of State Security, DSS, bothering on corruption, to NASS’s refusal to screen and confirm the Presidency’s 27 nominees for Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ostensibly, as payback for the Magu affront, only the blind would wait for tables to start flying before acknowledging there is fire on the mountain.
Time for Nigeria to stand up for Africa
A CALAMITY hit Africa late March. A conference, crucial to its immediate needs, was slated from March 23-28, 2017. It was primarily for African development, and involved all African Ministers for Finance, Planning and Economic Development as well as development partners and Civil society groups. Organised by the African Union, AU, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, it was to discuss the issues of ‘Growth, Inequality and Unemployment’ in the continent and what actions can be carried out.
