Yaradua's
Power Surge Without Resolution Of The Niger Delta Crisis, A Mirage?
By Francis Adewale
News report out of the Niger Delta is
grim. The militants in the Niger Delta have done a lot to shut down
oil exploration in the region and in the recent past they have moved
on to shut down off shore oil platforms that hitherto appeared
unreachable. There is no doubt that some criminal hoodlums had taken
advantage of the crisis to perpetrate evil on the Niger Delta people
themselves. The thought of an exploding gas pipe in the midst of
this crisis looms large as a possibility.
Details
The Proposed Niger
Delta Summit – Any Hope For A Breakthrough?
By Abubakar Atiku Nuhu-Koko
The yet another in the endless series
of summits on the Niger Delta region’s unresolved grievances is
expected to provide President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s administration a
synthesis of the already known grievances and solutions (remember,
there is already a comprehensive Niger Delta Region Master Plan and
an implementing statutory agency; the Niger Delta Development
Commission – NDDC on ground) regarding the lingering Niger Delta
conundrum.
Details
40 Year
Curse Or Compromise From Oil Stakeholders. By
Farouk Martins Aresa
Nigeria will blow
up in our face if we think since we survived Biafra war about forty
years ago or Operation Wet E that preceded it, we could also go
unprepared for imminent oil wells dry-up in 40 years in the Niger
Delta. There is some kind of careless arrogance in Nigeria that
everything can be swept under the rug. So with impunity, we think we
can crush any rebellion in Zaki Biam, Kano or in Odi. The only
countries that survived are those who rectify their past and make
amendments for the future. The countries that keep on repeating same
mistakes eventually die.
Details
Yar'Adua's
War on the Niger Delta: the Beginning of Nigeria's Undoing?
By Hosiah Emmanuel
What kind of death awaits a country
whose existence depends on crude oil from the Niger Delta and aims
to kill off the indigenous peoples on the way to the oil? Your
guess is as good as mine.
Details
Niger
Delta: How Deliberate Mischaracterisation Clouds The Real Issues.
By
Hamaseyo Mohammed
I
believe that the poverty and deprivation in the ND is mainly caused
by corruption, mostly at the state and local government levels but
also at the federal level to some extent. Corruption is also
responsible for the poor performance of the direct intervention
agencies Ompadec and NDDC. Secondly, the federal government is
generally inept and negligent in regulating the operations of oil
companies in the ND and there was a delay in recognising the need
for increased funding to the states of the ND (e.g. the 13%
derivation fund) based on their peculiar circumstances
Details
Options For
The Niger Delta Summit. By Dr. Emmanuel
Ojameruaye
Due to poor planning and
poor judgment by the Federal Government, there are already strong
indications that the long-awaited Niger
Delta Summit will be dead on arrival (still born). Even if the
summit is “delivered”, the baby (result) may suffer from
“kwashiorkor” and die pre-maturely joining the statistics of infant
or “under-five” mortality. Even with this ominous sign in the
horizon, the Federal Government appears bent on holding the
Summit
in spite of strong opposition by some groups and leaders from the
Niger Delta region.
Details
The Niger-Delta Crisis: Drifting Into
Civil War Again? By Ndiameeh Babrik
Without sounding and being tagged
alarmist and the fact that I am not a prophet of doom but all the
indices in Nigeria today appear and are gradually sliding toward a
civil war one more time. We are use to the adage that history has a
way of repeating itself except that probably it will be in a
slightly different way in Nigeria of today. In the days of General
Gowon, it was go on with one Nigeria but I do not think that can be
possible now. I am prompted to write this article after reading the
communiqué of
the South West legislators meeting held in Akure calling for true
Federalism.
Details
Nigeria’s
Political Capone De Capii Tutii’s.
By
Anthony Okosun
Political
Godfathers in Nigeria are the quintessential exemplification of the
notion of Mafia God Fathers as popularised by the Mario Puzo
fictional creation 'The Godfather' based on real life Sicillian
mafia life style of Italian crime families and the daily activities
of the family head known as the Capon de Capi Tutii- Boss of all
Bosses.
Details
Nigeria’s Decaying
Process. By
Okachikwu Dibia
Before 1985, I used
to strongly argue that Nigeria was “working” properly. But in the
last 23 years, Nigerians appear to have accepted that money is all
we need to get Nigeria properly working. That is the danger:
government must bring money to fix our roads, schools, electricity,
ports, airports, railways, pipe-born water, sanitation and sewage,
hospitals, housing and indeed everything.
Details
The
Delusions Of A Blessed Country. By Akintokunbo
A Adejumo
Judging from the situation we
have found ourselves since independence, nay, from our existence
even as separate tribal units, can we still justify this blessed
notion? If we are blessed, should we still be groping about in the
dark for good leaders? And if we agree that we are blessed specially
by the Almighty, so also are we cursed with extreme poverty and
other sufferings caused by bad leaders, as exemplified by their
corruption, lack of ideas, prevarication, insensitivity and
depravity.
Details
What is the
Dividend of Democracy? By Tochukwu Ezukanma
Nigerians will earn the dividend of
democracy when the power elite become completely subject to the
powers of the electorate, and consequently, act only in accordance
to their will. Then, it will be impossible for them to rig
elections, steal public funds, or engage in any act that is contrary
to the legitimate aspirations of the people. And Nigerian citizens
will rise from pawns and stooges in the elite power game to become
the focus of the interest, concern and actions of their elected and
government officials and every institution of government. And these
officials will be reduced from haughty, crooked, selfishness,
superciliousness, and money-stealing panjandrums to public servants.
Details
Workers' Day: A
Critical Review of the Political Role of Labour Leadership.
By Kola Ibrahim
Events leading up to
this year's May day in Nigeria again place a central challenge before
the labour movement to lead a campaign to end poverty in Nigeria. In
many states (except Abuja where the presence of Oshiomhole changed the
mood), the Workers' Day only was only made a ritual without much
enthusiasm by workers and the poor which further confirms the crisis
facing working class people in Nigeria.
Details
The Way Out
Of Africa Is The Way Out Of Middle East. By
Farouk Martins Aresa
Majority of
American people want a way out of Iraq and they will eventually have
their way no matter who becomes the President. There may be no easy
way out; the most probable solution is by contract or outsourcing.
Some people still do not realize there are military contractors
working in Iraq performing almost the same functions as the
Coalition Forces. They are mostly bodyguards for big corporations.
Details
Between
Obadiah Mailafia, Stephen Hawking And The Quest For African Einstein
(1). By Jibo Nura
Life is ten per
cent (10%) what happens to you and ninety per cent (90%) how you
respond to it. And the beauty in it is to always consider the good
moments by reflecting on the bad ones in order to live as
peacefully, as cheaply and as satisfactorily as possible.
Details
What Do Africans Owe Africa?
By
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
It is impossible to
tell, with any degree of certainty, how Africa would have turned out
without slavery and colonialism. All we can do is guess, make
conjectures. Nonetheless, considering the fate of other peoples in
other continents, and considering also the history of the continent,
it is safe to say Africa too would have had its fair share of
historical-unavoidables.
Details
Effective
Policing For National Security: How Far Can Mike Okiro’s 13 Welfare
Agenda Go? By Emeka Oraetoka
Okiro’s first point agenda is Frank
Herzberg’s extrinsic motivator and could be seen in
the increased take home pay of officers of the Police Force. It is
no more news that salary of officers and men of the Nigeria Police
has increased tremendously. This is sequel to the recommendation of
the police reform committee which was graciously approved by
President Umar Musa Yar-Ardua.
Details
Expensive Funerals.
By
Ifedigbo Nze Sylva
In Nigeria, when there is a death,
there is bucket full of tears and drinks. People from various parts
of the world mourn their dead in different ways, but in Nigeria, we
celebrate death and make a whole big party of it. This culture
of waste which I find most nauseating is a common practice among my
people the Igbos of the South East and I am sure is also the order
among other tribes in the country. Here we’ve made funerals such a
huge feast that families who have lost their own seem to cry more
due to the kind of expense they are sure to make than out of the
pains of loosing someone.
Details
Nigerian Medical Personnel as Merchants of
Death.
By Ikechukwu A. Ogu
Unfortunately, what we have in Nigeria is
mostly the ugly reverse of what ought to be. The problem pervades both the
private and public health institutions. Generally, private hospitals are
run as business concerns and some of the owners exercise caution not to
hurt the feelings of the patients. But in their absence, the mainly
auxiliary nurses (“Nurse Eliza”) treat the patients shabbily, insult and
frighten them. My mother was so treated in a private hospital once and I
took the matter up with the proprietor who promised to punish the erring
auxiliary nurses. In our public hospitals, the same lackadaisical and
indifferent attitude which has wreaked havoc on our public service is the
order of the day. Often, right from the time you seek to obtain a card you
see hostility staring you in the face from the nurse or administrative
staff attending to you. The situation will only be different if the
patient is a friend, related to them or exudes wealth.
Details
Nigerian
Corruption: Unending Discoveries. By Abbas A.
Dikko
Immediately after
the return of democratic rule in Nigeria, on May 29, 1999, Nigerians
were awashed by the elected government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of
the unprecedented level of theft said to have been perpetrated by
the military regime of Late Gen. Sani Abacha. Millions of Nigerians
were aghast by the gory revelations of stealing that was alleged,
took place in his five years military administration. Many condemned
the nauseating atrocities, several others welcome, praised and
applauded the action of Obasanjo’s government resolved to trap and
recover all the looted Abacha monies, while some remain adamant and
mute as if they knew, Obasanjo too, would fall in the same line if
not even worst as predicated in his eight years tenure.
Details
Malaysiabeckons!
By
Ibraheem Dooba
But communication is still difficult
because in the eyes of the Malaysian, Nigerians speak too quickly.
Morgan my taxi driver friend said Nigerians speak 'hard' English.
You may see a person in a big office – in size and function – whose
English is almost zilch. Sometimes you may find it insulting when
your greeting is not returned or even acknowledged. But the ones
that avoid talking to you are those that do not understand English
at all.
Details
Privatization and Environmental Concern: The Port Issue.
By Segun Imohiosen
In a recent workshop organised by the
Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) under the Privatization Support
Project (PSP) of the World Bank with environmental stakeholders
drawn from Ports Concessionaires (tenants), Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA) and Federal Ministry of Environment, Housing and Urban
Development (FMEnv&UD), amongst others, a wholesome issue on Port
Environment Review System came to the fore in order to set the stage
for environmental management framework for which the port can
operate in line with sustainable environmental development.
Details
This Lugbe -
Airport Road Traffic Menace. By Segun
Simmons
My take in all of this matter is that
something must be done soon on that axis of Abuja to avoid serious
casualties regularly and to avoid an unending traffic hold ups every
morning and evening on that road.
Details
On Miss
Adichie's Sensibility. By
Richard Ugbede Ali
Sardauna Bello's death, his murder, his assassination, the eclipse of
his sun – there was a context to it and I have so far appreciated
Miss Adichie's attempt to write a balanced if at times enervating novel
about the sixties, a trying time for Nigeria. But I will go to that
context later. I return to sensibility and sensitivity. Am I insensibly
questioning her sensibility – do I seek to curtail her freedom by
questioning its use?
Details
Gunshot Victims And Medical Treatment.
The True Position By
Andrews Solicitors
Tuesday 11 March, 2008 added another
depressing statistic to the endless and ever growing list of why
Nigerians continue to lose faith in the hope for a better country.
Adetokunbo Adeleye, 39, a much admired young teacher at the Rock
Montessori School, Lekki, Lagos, needlessly lost his life. How?
First by the mindless, unmotivated blood thirstiness of a the
growing cantonment of brigands called armed robbers compounded, as
was to transpire, by the crass disregard of a fundamental watchword
of the medical profession – help first and question later – based,
inescapably on utmost ignorance if not wickedness.
Details
Impeachment And
Recalls In Adamawa State: Goofy Instruments Of Conflict Management.
By Umar G. Pella
Governor Murtala
Nyako must be impeached. So it seems is the collective position of
the legislators. Yes, Nyako must be crucified. He is cruel; he is
corrupt; an abuser of due process; he awards over-inflated
contracts; he has rendered the state bankrupt and subjected her to
the suffocating burden of indebtedness.
Details
Kano: Democracy in Mortal Danger!
By
Kabiru
Inuwa
But for goodness sake, what is wrong
with Kano if I may have the liberty to ask? What happened to the
legacies of courage, industry, scholarships and time tested ability
to say no to any bully? I can not imagine that, the artificially
induced hunger on the innocent people has finally taken its toll and
sufficiently conquered the ability of the people to oppose executive
high-handedness.
Details
Kano And Momentum Of
Leadership.
By
Ammar Muhammad Yola
Malam Ibrahim
Shekarau has shown exemplary leadership and his personality paradigm
has positively impacted on his administration’s societal
reorientation programme enough for his spokesman to sound
optimistic. Shekarau is a model public officer by whatever
yardstick, an honest, transparent, visionary, humble and prudent
leader who leads by example and has earned the right to ask his
subjects to change from their bad ways. Details
Shagaya’s
False Military Tradition. By Anthony
Akinola
Even if Shagaya’s
assumed military tradition exists, he needs to be reminded here that
the democratic culture has no place for it. General Babaginda should
be free to seek the presidency wherever the oppurtunity presents
itself, as June 12 is also entitled to continue to stand between him
and that important institution for the rest of his life.
Details
Yaradua's
Power Surge Without Resolution Of The Niger Delta Crisis, A Mirage?
By Francis Adewale
News report out of the Niger Delta is
grim. The militants in the Niger Delta have done a lot to shut down
oil exploration in the region and in the recent past they have moved
on to shut down off shore oil platforms that hitherto appeared
unreachable. There is no doubt that some criminal hoodlums had taken
advantage of the crisis to perpetrate evil on the Niger Delta people
themselves. The thought of an exploding gas pipe in the midst of
this crisis looms large as a possibility.
Details
The Proposed Niger
Delta Summit – Any Hope For A Breakthrough?
By Abubakar Atiku Nuhu-Koko
The yet another in the endless series
of summits on the Niger Delta region’s unresolved grievances is
expected to provide President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s administration a
synthesis of the already known grievances and solutions (remember,
there is already a comprehensive Niger Delta Region Master Plan and
an implementing statutory agency; the Niger Delta Development
Commission – NDDC on ground) regarding the lingering Niger Delta
conundrum.
Details
40 Year
Curse Or Compromise From Oil Stakeholders. By
Farouk Martins Aresa
Nigeria will blow
up in our face if we think since we survived Biafra war about forty
years ago or Operation Wet E that preceded it, we could also go
unprepared for imminent oil wells dry-up in 40 years in the Niger
Delta. There is some kind of careless arrogance in Nigeria that
everything can be swept under the rug. So with impunity, we think we
can crush any rebellion in Zaki Biam, Kano or in Odi. The only
countries that survived are those who rectify their past and make
amendments for the future. The countries that keep on repeating same
mistakes eventually die.
Details
Yar'Adua's
War on the Niger Delta: the Beginning of Nigeria's Undoing?
By Hosiah Emmanuel
What kind of death awaits a country
whose existence depends on crude oil from the Niger Delta and aims
to kill off the indigenous peoples on the way to the oil? Your
guess is as good as mine.
Details
Niger
Delta: How Deliberate Mischaracterisation Clouds The Real Issues.
By
Hamaseyo Mohammed
I
believe that the poverty and deprivation in the ND is mainly caused
by corruption, mostly at the state and local government levels but
also at the federal level to some extent. Corruption is also
responsible for the poor performance of the direct intervention
agencies Ompadec and NDDC. Secondly, the federal government is
generally inept and negligent in regulating the operations of oil
companies in the ND and there was a delay in recognising the need
for increased funding to the states of the ND (e.g. the 13%
derivation fund) based on their peculiar circumstances
Details
Options For
The Niger Delta Summit. By Dr. Emmanuel
Ojameruaye
Due to poor planning and
poor judgment by the Federal Government, there are already strong
indications that the long-awaited Niger
Delta Summit will be dead on arrival (still born). Even if the
summit is “delivered”, the baby (result) may suffer from
“kwashiorkor” and die pre-maturely joining the statistics of infant
or “under-five” mortality. Even with this ominous sign in the
horizon, the Federal Government appears bent on holding the
Summit
in spite of strong opposition by some groups and leaders from the
Niger Delta region.
Details
The Niger-Delta Crisis: Drifting Into
Civil War Again? By Ndiameeh Babrik
Without sounding and being tagged
alarmist and the fact that I am not a prophet of doom but all the
indices in Nigeria today appear and are gradually sliding toward a
civil war one more time. We are use to the adage that history has a
way of repeating itself except that probably it will be in a
slightly different way in Nigeria of today. In the days of General
Gowon, it was go on with one Nigeria but I do not think that can be
possible now. I am prompted to write this article after reading the
communiqué of
the South West legislators meeting held in Akure calling for true
Federalism.
Details
Nigeria’s
Political Capone De Capii Tutii’s.
By
Anthony Okosun
Political
Godfathers in Nigeria are the quintessential exemplification of the
notion of Mafia God Fathers as popularised by the Mario Puzo
fictional creation 'The Godfather' based on real life Sicillian
mafia life style of Italian crime families and the daily activities
of the family head known as the Capon de Capi Tutii- Boss of all
Bosses.
Details
Nigeria’s Decaying
Process. By
Okachikwu Dibia
Before 1985, I used
to strongly argue that Nigeria was “working” properly. But in the
last 23 years, Nigerians appear to have accepted that money is all
we need to get Nigeria properly working. That is the danger:
government must bring money to fix our roads, schools, electricity,
ports, airports, railways, pipe-born water, sanitation and sewage,
hospitals, housing and indeed everything.
Details
The
Delusions Of A Blessed Country. By Akintokunbo
A Adejumo
Judging from the situation we
have found ourselves since independence, nay, from our existence
even as separate tribal units, can we still justify this blessed
notion? If we are blessed, should we still be groping about in the
dark for good leaders? And if we agree that we are blessed specially
by the Almighty, so also are we cursed with extreme poverty and
other sufferings caused by bad leaders, as exemplified by their
corruption, lack of ideas, prevarication, insensitivity and
depravity.
Details
What is the
Dividend of Democracy? By Tochukwu Ezukanma
Nigerians will earn the dividend of
democracy when the power elite become completely subject to the
powers of the electorate, and consequently, act only in accordance
to their will. Then, it will be impossible for them to rig
elections, steal public funds, or engage in any act that is contrary
to the legitimate aspirations of the people. And Nigerian citizens
will rise from pawns and stooges in the elite power game to become
the focus of the interest, concern and actions of their elected and
government officials and every institution of government. And these
officials will be reduced from haughty, crooked, selfishness,
superciliousness, and money-stealing panjandrums to public servants.
Details
Workers' Day: A
Critical Review of the Political Role of Labour Leadership.
By Kola Ibrahim
Events leading up to
this year's May day in Nigeria again place a central challenge before
the labour movement to lead a campaign to end poverty in Nigeria. In
many states (except Abuja where the presence of Oshiomhole changed the
mood), the Workers' Day only was only made a ritual without much
enthusiasm by workers and the poor which further confirms the crisis
facing working class people in Nigeria.
Details
The Way Out
Of Africa Is The Way Out Of Middle East. By
Farouk Martins Aresa
Majority of
American people want a way out of Iraq and they will eventually have
their way no matter who becomes the President. There may be no easy
way out; the most probable solution is by contract or outsourcing.
Some people still do not realize there are military contractors
working in Iraq performing almost the same functions as the
Coalition Forces. They are mostly bodyguards for big corporations.
Details
Between
Obadiah Mailafia, Stephen Hawking And The Quest For African Einstein
(1). By Jibo Nura
Life is ten per
cent (10%) what happens to you and ninety per cent (90%) how you
respond to it. And the beauty in it is to always consider the good
moments by reflecting on the bad ones in order to live as
peacefully, as cheaply and as satisfactorily as possible.
Details
What Do Africans Owe Africa?
By
Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
It is impossible to
tell, with any degree of certainty, how Africa would have turned out
without slavery and colonialism. All we can do is guess, make
conjectures. Nonetheless, considering the fate of other peoples in
other continents, and considering also the history of the continent,
it is safe to say Africa too would have had its fair share of
historical-unavoidables.
Details
Effective
Policing For National Security: How Far Can Mike Okiro’s 13 Welfare
Agenda Go? By Emeka Oraetoka
Okiro’s first point agenda is Frank
Herzberg’s extrinsic motivator and could be seen in
the increased take home pay of officers of the Police Force. It is
no more news that salary of officers and men of the Nigeria Police
has increased tremendously. This is sequel to the recommendation of
the police reform committee which was graciously approved by
President Umar Musa Yar-Ardua.
Details
Expensive Funerals.
By
Ifedigbo Nze Sylva
In Nigeria, when there is a death,
there is bucket full of tears and drinks. People from various parts
of the world mourn their dead in different ways, but in Nigeria, we
celebrate death and make a whole big party of it. This culture
of waste which I find most nauseating is a common practice among my
people the Igbos of the South East and I am sure is also the order
among other tribes in the country. Here we’ve made funerals such a
huge feast that families who have lost their own seem to cry more
due to the kind of expense they are sure to make than out of the
pains of loosing someone.
Details
Nigerian Medical Personnel as Merchants of
Death.
By Ikechukwu A. Ogu
Unfortunately, what we have in Nigeria is
mostly the ugly reverse of what ought to be. The problem pervades both the
private and public health institutions. Generally, private hospitals are
run as business concerns and some of the owners exercise caution not to
hurt the feelings of the patients. But in their absence, the mainly
auxiliary nurses (“Nurse Eliza”) treat the patients shabbily, insult and
frighten them. My mother was so treated in a private hospital once and I
took the matter up with the proprietor who promised to punish the erring
auxiliary nurses. In our public hospitals, the same lackadaisical and
indifferent attitude which has wreaked havoc on our public service is the
order of the day. Often, right from the time you seek to obtain a card you
see hostility staring you in the face from the nurse or administrative
staff attending to you. The situation will only be different if the
patient is a friend, related to them or exudes wealth.
Details
Nigerian
Corruption: Unending Discoveries. By Abbas A.
Dikko
Immediately after
the return of democratic rule in Nigeria, on May 29, 1999, Nigerians
were awashed by the elected government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of
the unprecedented level of theft said to have been perpetrated by
the military regime of Late Gen. Sani Abacha. Millions of Nigerians
were aghast by the gory revelations of stealing that was alleged,
took place in his five years military administration. Many condemned
the nauseating atrocities, several others welcome, praised and
applauded the action of Obasanjo’s government resolved to trap and
recover all the looted Abacha monies, while some remain adamant and
mute as if they knew, Obasanjo too, would fall in the same line if
not even worst as predicated in his eight years tenure.
Details
Malaysiabeckons!
By
Ibraheem Dooba
But communication is still difficult
because in the eyes of the Malaysian, Nigerians speak too quickly.
Morgan my taxi driver friend said Nigerians speak 'hard' English.
You may see a person in a big office – in size and function – whose
English is almost zilch. Sometimes you may find it insulting when
your greeting is not returned or even acknowledged. But the ones
that avoid talking to you are those that do not understand English
at all.
Details
Privatization and Environmental Concern: The Port Issue.
By Segun Imohiosen
In a recent workshop organised by the
Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) under the Privatization Support
Project (PSP) of the World Bank with environmental stakeholders
drawn from Ports Concessionaires (tenants), Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA) and Federal Ministry of Environment, Housing and Urban
Development (FMEnv&UD), amongst others, a wholesome issue on Port
Environment Review System came to the fore in order to set the stage
for environmental management framework for which the port can
operate in line with sustainable environmental development.
Details
This Lugbe -
Airport Road Traffic Menace. By Segun
Simmons
My take in all of this matter is that
something must be done soon on that axis of Abuja to avoid serious
casualties regularly and to avoid an unending traffic hold ups every
morning and evening on that road.
Details
On Miss
Adichie's Sensibility. By
Richard Ugbede Ali
Sardauna Bello's death, his murder, his assassination, the eclipse of
his sun – there was a context to it and I have so far appreciated
Miss Adichie's attempt to write a balanced if at times enervating novel
about the sixties, a trying time for Nigeria. But I will go to that
context later. I return to sensibility and sensitivity. Am I insensibly
questioning her sensibility – do I seek to curtail her freedom by
questioning its use?
Details
Gunshot Victims And Medical Treatment.
The True Position By
Andrews Solicitors
Tuesday 11 March, 2008 added another
depressing statistic to the endless and ever growing list of why
Nigerians continue to lose faith in the hope for a better country.
Adetokunbo Adeleye, 39, a much admired young teacher at the Rock
Montessori School, Lekki, Lagos, needlessly lost his life. How?
First by the mindless, unmotivated blood thirstiness of a the
growing cantonment of brigands called armed robbers compounded, as
was to transpire, by the crass disregard of a fundamental watchword
of the medical profession – help first and question later – based,
inescapably on utmost ignorance if not wickedness.
Details
Impeachment And
Recalls In Adamawa State: Goofy Instruments Of Conflict Management.
By Umar G. Pella
Governor Murtala
Nyako must be impeached. So it seems is the collective position of
the legislators. Yes, Nyako must be crucified. He is cruel; he is
corrupt; an abuser of due process; he awards over-inflated
contracts; he has rendered the state bankrupt and subjected her to
the suffocating burden of indebtedness.
Details
Kano: Democracy in Mortal Danger!
By
Kabiru
Inuwa
But for goodness sake, what is wrong
with Kano if I may have the liberty to ask? What happened to the
legacies of courage, industry, scholarships and time tested ability
to say no to any bully? I can not imagine that, the artificially
induced hunger on the innocent people has finally taken its toll and
sufficiently conquered the ability of the people to oppose executive
high-handedness.
Details
Kano And Momentum Of
Leadership.
By
Ammar Muhammad Yola
Malam Ibrahim
Shekarau has shown exemplary leadership and his personality paradigm
has positively impacted on his administration’s societal
reorientation programme enough for his spokesman to sound
optimistic. Shekarau is a model public officer by whatever
yardstick, an honest, transparent, visionary, humble and prudent
leader who leads by example and has earned the right to ask his
subjects to change from their bad ways. Details
Shagaya’s
False Military Tradition. By Anthony
Akinola
Even if Shagaya’s
assumed military tradition exists, he needs to be reminded here that
the democratic culture has no place for it. General Babaginda should
be free to seek the presidency wherever the oppurtunity presents
itself, as June 12 is also entitled to continue to stand between him
and that important institution for the rest of his life.
Details
