The textbook debate and the future of education reform
By Ayo Olodo Government policies rarely fail because their intentions are bad. They fail because good intentions are often mistaken for good implementation. Nigeria has become something of a laboratory for ambitious education reforms. Every new administration arrives promising transformation. New curricula are introduced. New assessment methods emerge. New technologies are announced. Fresh slogans replace […]
Attraction of change and a boiling nation
THAT corruption is alive and waxing stronger in Nigeria more than most of its global contemporaries is a fact. In fact, almost all the administrations that have in place the nation have been implicated in the systemic malady. The so-called corrective military governments are not exempted, but were only smarter in hiding the statistics of […]
Revisiting the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill
After studying the “Gender and Equality Opportunity Bill,” I could clearly see the reason it was so easy for the Senate to throw it out. Unfortunately, the Senate itself has not come forward with these reasons. Perhaps worse still, those who have expressed outrage at the Senate’s decision have also failed to make the right arguments beyond the righteous indignation and gender activism rhetoric. Thus, we are about to miss another glorious opportunity to have a real debate on a matter that is at the very heart of our social progress.
Dogara’s call for North east donor confab
THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has made calls for the convening of an international donor’s conference that would holistically tackled the economic and infrastructural needs of the northeast of Nigeria which has borne the brunt of the six-year violent uprising from adherents of the Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda’Awati Wal Jihad, known popularly as Boko Haram.
Imperative of Gender Equality for National Development
ONE of my saddest days was when I watched the Senate on national television throw out the bill seeking gender equality in a hilarious and yet memorable session. I asked myself whether this was the same Senate that Nigerians voted for in 2015 with the expectation that they would be able to take the right decisions to protect their rights and promote their social welfare and development.
Why I Voted For GEJ Against #Change on March 28 Last Year
I not only voted against #Change, I campaigned against it all over Lagos with my principal Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and on one of those campaigns, I was seated beside him as gunshots in Isale-Eko not far from Iga Idunganran rained directly on our vehicle. Thank God it was a bullet-proof car. Thank God Koro asked his mobile police security not to return fire for fire. If I had lost my life that day.
