The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill
Reflections on the 66th NBA Conference in Port Harcourt By Douglas Baye-Osagie The 66th Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will be remembered for many things. Not just the swearing in of the first elected female President of the Bar, Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, but also the quality of some […]
Nigeria, ten million mobile phones for farmers
THE recently announced Ministry of Agriculture’s plan to distribute 10 million mobile phones to rural farmers has generated a lot of debate and criticisms. For Many Nigerians, it is a controversial gesture and a misplacement of priorities.
Why Nigeria, US don’t don’t share Intelligence
…Says Informants in Nigerian govt
THE shooting clattered on for 30 minutes, residents of this dusty town say, and when it ended, four militants holding a German engineer hostage were dead. So were the engineer, and four innocent bystanders.
Ihedioha, the baton of generational representation
A POPULAR Igbo saying has it that if a child’s washes his hands clean, he is therefore admitted to feast with elders. This wise saying of the Igbo people of South East of Nigeria finds fulfillment in the life and personality of Rt Hon. Chukwuemeka Ihedioha.
Nigerian media: Issues in editorship, professionalism
AS members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors converge at Premier Hotel, Ibadan, the OyoState capital, for their biennial conference from February 28 to March 2, 2013, there is need to ponder the state of the Nigerian media.
Victor Umeh, the rehash of balderdash
THE story that Peter Obi is the mastermind of the alleged clamp down on Victor Umeh and by extension All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is an old story, very old at that. It is indeed a cliché. But a cliché could be factual.
