The Education Rights Campaign , ERC, uses the occasion of Nigeria’s 52nd independence anniversary to again point attention to the colossal collapse of public education across the country and demand immediate government investment to arrest the decay and revive quality and standard in primary, secondary and tertiary tiers of the educational system.

He may not have performed to the utmost satisfaction of critics who, based on the spate of recent kidnappings in the state, had to draw hasty conclusions that Delta under Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has not only collapsed in terms of security of lives and property, but also on infrastructures.

Muslims pray each day: “O Lord! Keep us on the straight path”. It is a prayer to help us move away from the extremes and maintain balance in our lives.

I have carefully followed the debate on Nigeria’s federal system with mixed feelings. While it is heartening that some of the contributions manifest a growing culture of enlightened engagement necessary for democratic consolidation, many needlessly constrict the debate to ethnicity and choose to haul insults as substitute for sense.

How does one celebrate scholarship, particularly one with an excellent icing? Is it by rolling out drums in the thrills and sprees of a feverish gyration in recognition of landmark achievement or by pouring encomium on the achiever on the pages of a newspaper and other media, or by ruminating in stupefied awe of such academic exploit?