Thursday, 08 November 2012 17:54
Putting the Classroom Before the Workplace
One imperishable asset that will continue to play decisive roles in shaping our individual and collective future in this country is the quality of education, especially at the basic or elementary level, that is available to the citizenry. Unfortunately, this is an invaluable asset that is disturbingly lacking in the land, making its absence a monster that continually menaces our individual and collective lives. Of course, time was in this country when our certificates were widely courted like beautiful brides, with products of the nation’s education system proudly announcing and showing off their academic exploits everywhere, home and abroad.…
Friday, 02 November 2012 18:02
Mimiko: The Morning After
For many indigenes of Ondo State, especially those living “abroad” as opposed to those in the Diaspora, the days preceding the October 20, 2012 governorship election were surely full of apprehension. At every gathering, both formal and informal, the election became a focal point. It could not be otherwise, there was so much bad blood in the air. The campaign train of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, descended on the state like a blitzkrieg. While Akeredolu himself is a disciplined gentleman and distinguished lawyer, it was very clear that he is no politician. Thus his…
Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:43
The Trouble With Nigeria
Ike Ekweremadu, deputy president of the Senate, threw a bombshell some days ago. It is a surprise that some of his colleagues who were the butt of the shelling have not started asking for his head. While delivering this year’s Zik Lecture organised by the Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ekweremadu expressed surprise that as educationally advanced as the South-east is, “we still send to the National Assembly some people who can barely write their names.” We are quoting from The PUNCH newspaper of Tuesday, October 16. This is a great indictment on the quality of…
Forty-two years after the civil war, many Nigerians must have realised in the last few days that the wounds of the heart inflicted by that war are still festering. To many though it would not come as a surprise. The agitation of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra has kept the Biafran dream alive. And hardly can one miss the issue of the marginalisation of the Igbo in our public space. In fact, the way Igbo intellectuals, and those who join issues with them, discuss the Nigerian Question on the Internet, especially Naijapolitics, has always made many patriots…
Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:15
Lynching a Nation’s Soul
It was a shocked nation still coming to grips with the slaughter of over 40 students of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, only to be further rudely stirred from their stupor by the daylight roasting to death of four students of University of Port Harcourt in Aluu, a suburb of the city. While the latter were alleged to have stolen a laptop and a BlackBerry phone, we are yet to know what the Mubi victims did to merit their violent end. All we know for now is that their assailants had a hit list and moved from one hostel to…
Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:00
The Dilemma of Okada Riders
For violating the new traffic law in Lagos State, some 3,000 motorcycles, popularly known as okada, have been seized from their owners and have been crushed by the state government. At an average price of N50,000 per motorcycle, that is some N15 million loss to the motorcyclists who abandoned their bikes when they were about to be nabbed by law enforcement agents. Perhaps, an arrest would have been better than this total loss. Although finding the hefty fines, the least of which is N20,000, would have been a tough challenge for most of them. Thus they would languish in detention…
Friday, 12 October 2012 17:08
More Federalism, Fewer States
Dr. Alex Ekwueme calls the creation of an additional state in the South-east a “national imperative.” So far, by the last count, the Senate already has 57 requests for state creation. Thus it will be a miracle if the nation ever succeeds in creating an additional state. However, is state creation the nation’s most pressing problem today? This is at a time, many are asking for states to be collapsed or that we should redefine our federal structure along the six geo-political zones because of the inherent waste in the present system. We run a federal system that is not…
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