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 […]
Minorities, Jonathan presidency and Isyaku Ibrahim’s bigotry
THE extended interview granted by Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, who was a member of the Nigerian Parliament in the 1960s, published in the Sun newspaper of Saturday, August 14, 2010, is an outright diatribe on the minorities of this country, President Goodluck Jonathan and some prominent Nigerians of Southern extraction.
John Odah @ 50
TODAY, August 24, 2010, our Comrade and friend, John Ejoha Odah marks his 50th birthday. From the toddler in Benue State, to the student union activist, he has grown to become a name in the trade union movement.
‘Tigers’ in the legislative chamber
THE recent sack of the entire Committee on Communications in the Upper Chamber of our legislative house came as no surprise to many Nigerians.
Zoning: Don’t kill Jonathan
MY concern on this subject matter is that President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria must save himself and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today and secure a more weighty political honour that will benefit the South-South political zone better in the future than now.
More than Just Elections
As Jega and his team prepare for the 2011 elections it is important tounderscore that the nation needs to pay more attention to how the INEC organizes the elections.
Iwu and the Nigerian electoral history
IT is over two months now since Prof. Maurice Iwu left the Nigerian electoral scene with the hoopla associated with the anticipated renewal of his appointment as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
South Africa and the 2010 World Cup
IN those days, soccer or football as we may call it was just a game, but looking at the new world order and the level of prominence given to it or with the modern technology and FIFA, one will realise that soccer is much more than a game.
Iwu and the Nigerian electoral history
IT is over two months now since Prof. Maurice Iwu left the Nigerian electoral scene with the hoopla associated with the anticipated renewal of his appointment as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Every attention has shifted to his successor, Prof. Attahiru Jega and what he should do to conduct “free, fair and credible†elections in 2011.
Revolution is not a tea party (2)
REVOLUTION is borne out of nationalism, vision and undiluted passion for the fatherland; not a section (North or South, Christian or Muslim or ethnic nationality) of it. Not for self. It is also about sacrifice, blood and sweat.
The naked dance on Otta bridge
It is on record that the Governor has refused to endorse any of the numerous candidates who have openly declared interest or clandestinely plotting to succeed him come May, 29, 20 11 by God’s grace.
