Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
The capture of Dopkesi: Costs and benefits
WHEN former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s campaign team grabbed Ben Murray Bruce to coordinate their campaign in 1999, no one was in doubt that the team had struck gold. When it comes to putting up a show, you couldn’t ask for a better man than Ben Bruce.
Propriety of INEC’s quest for time extension
THE news of the resolution by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at its last retreat in Calabar to seek time extension for the forthcoming elections in January 2011 did not come to me as a surprise.
As Orji declares for 2nd term
SOON, Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Ahamuefula Orji (Ochendo) would declare his intent for a second term in office on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Why we should close down the CBN for two years (2)
IT was more or less the same story in neighbouring Kenya. Prime Minister Odinga, a Kikuyi , who won the election wanted control of the Central Bank of Kenya.
Amaechi and the social services levy (2)
DURING his address to the State House of Assembly on why the bill should be passed into law, Governor Amaechi explained that the law would consolidate all the recent developments in the education and health sectors.
RIGHT OF REPLY: The Balewa saga
Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.
What Can be Done about Education?
It is heartening that the new Minister of Education has refused to grant approval to the management of the institute to commence expansion program that will allow it award degrees until she is satisfied that it has the capacity to effectively perform its mandate.
Amaechi and the social services levy
THE jumbled and slapdash pattern of providing free social services to the people by some States and regions over the years in Nigeria has consistently failed to produce desired results.
Corrupt politicians’ gambit to weaken EFCC
MANY Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), especially state governors, have understandably become desperate ahead of the primaries of political parties that begin next month.
As PPA hibernates in Abia State again
All the decisions he has taken, including the recent defection to PDP has been applauded and supported by the people. He has not miscalculated, because he consults widely. So what did Ohajuruka wants the people to believe and accept?
