When No One Wants to Be in the Classroom Anymore: Nigeria and the dignity of the teaching profession
“If you were me, would you want to be like you?” This is the question the children and mentees of teachers now ask them.
A Boiling Southern Cauldron and The Insults Of The Northern Governors
Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published.
The callous response of the northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up.
The Road To Kigali
In 1994 almost one million Tutsis were murdered in cold blood in the space of one month by members of the ruling Hutu tribe in Kigali, Rwanda.
Oil: The ‘City States’ of the Niger Delta, the South-South and Nigeria
THE slave trade had made a number of states and towns on the coast extremely wealthy; these include many Ijaw towns – Bonny, Buguma, Okrika, Brass, Sapele, Koko, Calabar and so forth.
When truth is turned head down
Some people assume that when they are not in charge of a body or organization, those who are there are not qualified to steer the ship of that body. That is the case with basketball in Nigeria since 2013 when the present board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF led by an unassuming gentleman, Tijjani Umar took charge of the federation.
Nigeria’s Railway System: Using Legislative Reform to Enable Infrastructural Development
The repeal and re-enactment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act CAP N129, LFN 2004, 2015 (SB. 001) is targeted at re-vitalizing and enhancing the operational framework and removal of the impediments that hindered the international best practices within the rail transport sector. This Bill is currently at the committee level for public hearing, chaired by Senator Gbenga Ashafa.
