Women are seen and touted as an important index in the world's development. One needs to just check global goals, from Millennium Development Goals to the present Sustainable Development Goals. The world's global noise continues to gain momentum and there seems to be no end in sight with regards to this. No one will deny the fact that women are smart, [...]
In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.I am compelled to revivify the article here, but [...]
I am especially pleased and indeed privileged to share this special day with you the staff, graduands and proud family members of the graduands of Senior Course 39.We must give glory and thanks to the Almighty God by whose mercy and grace we are able to witness this celebration of achievement.You have made a success of this course after 48 [...]
As always, every president in Nigeria in our recent history comes in to the office to face a different battle with little time for serious governance. If you think I am wrong, wait for it. For Olusegun Obasanjo, it was militia groups combined—Oodua Peoples Congress, Egbesu boys, Movement for the Actualization of Biafra, Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Arewa youths. [...]
At a time when you would think there are enough small fires in the country, the religious army has started yet another small fire in schools.For most of the time this week the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council had to whip out the hoses to douse the brush fire started by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over rumours [...]
In Nigeria, heroism is an easy milestone. The rest of the sane world would laugh at us if they knew. In other parts of the world that we belong to, you cannot gain the heroic status unless you did something really noble and outstanding, and mostly in the service of humanity.But not Nigeria. Here, one could be a nonentity yesterday, [...]
On the face of it, anti-corruption is a good thing. It is desirable; and therefore should be supported. It is very difficult to argue against this stance. What is rather much more convoluted is what corruption means and entails. It is neither straightforward nor narrow, as often presented.Corruption goes beyond stealing public funds, although it is a major understanding of [...]
Andrew, a white European of the Christian faith, currently works among the internally displaced persons, IDPs, in their camps in war-ravaged and weather-stricken villages of the north-east Nigeria. His typical day is characterised by emergencies, thoroughly famished children hanging on the edge must be tended to, young women amid degrees of trauma and deprivation, avoidable deaths and life threatening situations surround [...]
The setting at the senate conference room 022, venue of public hearing on the bill to establish Institute of Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) Thursday last week was very combative and full of fireworks. Indeed, the public debate on the bill would have become a boxing ring, to not only to knock out Chika Balogun, the Director-General of NIHOTOUR team but [...]
