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The Nigeria Police: Going Nowhere Quickly. By Prince Charles Dickson (GAMJI) Between 1999 and today the Police strength has grown from 112,000 to 320,000 men, despite this increase, crime has equally increased more, because the government in its fast motion to nowhere has not been able to discern the simple fact that even if you recruit 10 million men into the Police and still have 50 million Nigerians hungry, unemployed, frustrated, crime would still be high. Details
Taming Inflation in Nigeria. By Victor E. Dike (GAMJI) Therefore, since high inflation saps the peoples’ purchasing power and retards economic growth the managers of the economy should concentrate on improving food production because food prices seem be moving beyond the reach of many Nigerians Details
Jihad Threat: Is Obasanjo's Administration Anti-Islam? By Rev Dr. Danjuma Byang (GAMJI) Muslim leaders in Nigeria under the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Jama’atu Nasril Islam arose from their meeting in Kaduna recently to declare a jihad against the Obasanjo administration for marginalizing Muslims in Nigeria. The threat was not taken lightly by the Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi (himself a Muslim), who immediately deployed soldiers to all strategic areas of the state capital to forestall any eventuality. Details
Nigeria and Africa: On Nation-building. By Leonard Karshima Shilgba, PhD (GAMJI) Looking at Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, the picture of a big house with diverse members and yet one people comes to mind. To build a decent enduring house, there is need for a plan. But a decent plan alone is not sufficient if there aren’t skillful, committed, and reliable Masons found. Details
Sam’s Misplaced Anger. By Babayola Toungo (GAMJI) I would like Sam, wherever he may be, to reflect back on Borishade’s performance in the Ministry of Education and refresh his mind on how universities were closed down for upwards of eight months during his watch. This same Borishade was of the University community before veering into politics. Who knows, he may have been one of those ASUU “rabble rousers” Details
Gani Fawehinmi : His Crass & Poor Taste “Criticism”. By Paul I. Adujie (GAMJI) I am personally disappointed at Gani’s lack of grace and class, in his efforts in the name of criticisms of President Obasanjo’s public policies. Gani patriotism has never been in doubt to me and for that matter no Nigerian would doubt where Gani stands on Nigeria’s progress and advancement toward national greatness. ...But Gani has just overdone! Gani has overplayed his hand and overplayed his role as ombudsman for good governance or battle worn critic. Details
Where is the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Leadership? By Carlisle U.O. Umunnah (GAMJI) With recent developments jarring in our faces in the homeland, Nigeria and disturbingly its citizens in the Nigerian-Diaspora-communities around the world are wondering on what the way forward is for the enterprise. It is stunning to state the obvious, that nothing to the best of my knowledge, in recent memory, has been heard from the NANS in the “democratization” process that is currently taking root in Nigeria. Details
Corruption: The Corrupt, the Corrupted, and the Co-Opted. By Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene (GAMJI) Yes! fighting corruption is good for our nation. It is a good war that must be fought to revive our dieing Nation. However, how can this war succeed if we fail to fight the worms that cause corruption? The ‘worms of corruption’ in Nigeria still remains bad-education, bad-leadership and followership, the cult of mediocrity of our elites; and poverty and lack of provision of basic infrastructures by government. Details
(GAMJI) Governor Ngige was away on medical vacation in Houston, Texas U.S, when the First Lady died, the Biafran Warlord Dim Ojukwu also came back from such medical check up. Which way forward. If the rich do not have hope in the same institution they pump billions of Naira and Dollars why shouldn’t the poor take solace in his cheap native medicine. Details
Political & Social Indecency: The Nigerian Factor Part 1. By Wale Akin (GAMJI) Nigerians dwell so much on the negative side of life and derive exceeding joyous applause doing the wrong thing, Governors like Diepreye Alamieseigha and Joshua Dariye would have been languishing in prisons now if such crimes as committed by the duo happened here in the UK but as a recurrent Nigerian factor, Dariye is still a governor despite being caught in the acts of money laundering and at the impoverished expense of the local masses. Details
Letter to Their Royal Highnesses. By Mahdi Shehu (GAMJI) Your royal Highnesses, some of you go out of their ways to do very un-royal things and yet expect that people will still continue to hold you in high esteem. You cannot have your cake and eat it alone. It is either you conduct yourself with royal dignity or you derail at the cost of your good will. Details
End of the Road: For Sultan Machido and Co.? By Mahdi Shehu (GAMJI) Between Thursday, the 10th – 19th of March 2005, twenty six (26) regular daily’s, five weekly magazines and eleven Lagos – Ibadan junk and Gossip cheap prints, reported what transpired between Mr Obasano and forty (40) other Northern Muslim traditional rulers along with certain selected Islamic Clerics, under the leadership of Sultan Machido Muhammad. ...After cellular consultations all the Emirs met at Kaduna on Tuesday the 8th of March 2005 preparatory to their Abuja journey the following day. Unknown to them two Emirs defected and left far Abuja by 11:00pm that some Tuesday against the agreed Wednesday Departure date. Later it was discovered that they had an early morning (3:00am) access to the powers that be, thus stabbing their colleagues from the back, hence played the JUDAS. Details
Power Must Shift. By John Oluwagbemiga (GAMJI) Some of us are concerned that the political class, in Nigeria, is made up of short-sighted, selfish and uncaring persons. One will easily come to this conclusion when an analysis of the current debacle over power shift is carried out. I am personally concerned because the issues are so simple that a political neophyte can easily see the way out of the conundrum. Details
Corruption Has No Place In Kano. By Salihu Othman Isah (GAMJI) Recently, Nigeria gained about four steps advantage from the bottom rung of the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI) placing 6th from its previous second position at the bottom. What this translates into is that the present leadership at the federal level is winning the war against corruption and corrupt practices even though the advancement is on a slow trend going by the recent TI’s rating. Details
Africans and the White House: Friends, Partners or Fools. By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde (GAMJI) Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Thabo Mbeki, Mwai Kibaki and John Kufor must have visited the United States a combined two-dozen or so times. Now, how many times have they met with President Bush? How many times have they been invited to address the US Congress? How many times have they met with the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense? How many times have they been invited to give commencement speeches at any of the elite institutions? How many times have they appeared before the elite media? For the most part, when African presidents come to the US, they hang out with their cronies and hangeron, and with low-level public and private officials. Details
(GAMJI) It is the same Obasanjo government in December 2003 with fanfare launched a Satellite into orbit in far away China, costing the nation more than a billion Naira, with much chest thumbing and back beating that we have finally joined the comity of nations with satellites in orbit. The Minster of Science & Technology listed a litany of benefits accruable to Nigeria as a nation, including instant mapping of the whole country within three minutes. But a plane, a whole plane, got missing three minutes after taking off from an airport and no one could say anything about its whereabouts for almost 18 hours until a villager stumbled on its wreckage per chance and got in touch with a private broadcasting outfit. Details
Before We Fail Again. By Segun Obasa (GAMJI) In 1977, before the all-important World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in Lagos, the NFA hiked the gate fees. This led the home fans to jeer at the Eagles .And when the much- expected goal did not come early enough, our players became nervous and started putting every foot wrong. This eventually led to Godwin Odiye, who up until that day, was imperious in our defence, scoring an own goal through an art he had perfected for club and country- a header of a back pass. Details
The Next Nigeria. By Zayyad I. Muhammad (GAMJI) What would us like the next Nigeria to be? A nation or a rogue state, a democracy or a repression, a country of blissful citizens or a vile populace, an economy or a scrap, a competitor or a bystander in the international community. The so called Obasanjo’s team of reformist must have ask themselves those questions before designing their reform programmes for Nigerians, Details
Feminism and Death Rites: Symbolism of Stella Obasanjo’s Burden of Burial Rites. By Patrick Iroebgbu (GAMJI) I am writing this piece to provoke a debate on feminism and burial rites in intercultural conditions. I look at the burden of rites of death and burial. In particular, I hope to offer a glimpse on the symbolism of late Stella Obasanjo, of what has become the nation’s burden of rites in the context of inter-ethnic and intercultural demands for respect for the living and the dead threatening the pride and in consequence the stability of the Iruekpen community. Details
Time-Out For Good Vibes About Nigeria. By Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa (GAMJI) All the news about Nigeria is not that bad. There are many encouraging news but the bad ones are so real and devastating, we forget many goods things. In spite of what may dismay us, we still celebrate our Traditional, Muslim and Christian religious festivals, birthdays, weddings, naming and old age ceremonies. When I asked some of my friends what is there to celebrate in the midst of poverty, they cautioned me that they will not die without some fun and happiness in their life. Details
Nigeria: The High Cost Of Neglect. By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye (GAMJI) How is it that an oil-rich country like Nigeria cannot boast of one standard airport with functional facilities, and capacities to respond promptly to emergencies? The speed with which this nation gave up hope of any likely survivors in the buried Bellview aircraft was most scandalous. Details
Stella Obasanjo Death; Lesson's Learned? By Sammy Adebayo (GAMJI) What is rather interesting however is that when challenged about their constant overseas trips, many of the Governors assume a fight to the end posture, insisting that they must and will travel. It almost sounds like lunacy. Why is it so important for 'elected' governors of states to run away from the states they were elected to govern and prefer to be in Western and American societies? If the glamour and comfort of Europe and America is so attractive and inviting, why not build the same paradise in their states with the ample resources allocated to them monthly? Details
Of virus: Unmasking the Idle Person(s) Behind It. By Nduwụeze Godson III (GAMJI) Everyone should be given the opportunity to defend the assault on his heritage in such a way that we may hopefully learn from each other. Suffice with one person’s fillet mignion being the other’s cyanide. To people who are not privileged to share my Igbo legacy, Biafra is a misnomer, but that is farthest from the truth; Biafra isn’t going anywhere, not soon, not in this lifetime. Mark your calendars, folks! The enigmatic veil has been shredded; Biafra is real, deal with it. Or better yet, jump off the roof because I speak and tell no lies. Details
Legacy of Yasser Arafat. By Saad S. Khan (GAMJI) Admittedly, it would be a miscalculation to think that Arafat had brought his nation to the level of maturity where they can obtain or run a State. Arafat was a warrior to the core, his tenure of presidency of the Palestinian Authority had placed on him demands for statesmanship that his warrior-instinct failed to do justice with. Decent and dignified last rites at his Palestinian headquarters for himself as the President of Palestine or any of his successors as such, was not something that he had laid grounds for. He ruled his internally semi-autonomous domains as if it were a guerilla command hideout. Details
Nigeria: Economy Monopolization. By Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim (GAMJI) it is really quite pathetic for a country like Nigeria; that is endowed with vast, fertile and available land coupled with good climatic conditions, turns from being a producer and exporter to one of the largest importers of food products, “what a shame, what an insult”. As long as we decline to utilize our lands and materials as means for our agricultural and industrial production, then the socio – political option left to us would be to depend on the IMF stringent modalities of giving soft – loans indefinitely. Details
The Price of Being Almajir. By Saraya I Yewan (GAMJI) Surprisingly, one wonder why this act of tacking children far away from their parents in the name of almajiranci, clearly contradicting the actual teaching of Islam look at Saudi Arabia, it is an Islamic country that almost all the citizens practice Islam they don’t practice almajiranci why should our children be suffering? Details
Revisiting Access Banks Warped Definition of Merit and Competence. By Omo’ba Olumide Idowu(GAMJI) What is even more disheartening is that multinational companies that often claim that their operations is governed by global standard have over time perfected the practice of employing different recruitment standards in Nigeria. Details
Tribute to Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman. By Dr. Alkasum Abba (GAMJI) For historians, the death of Dr Yusufu Bala Usman marked the end of an era because he belonged to the generation of intellectuals, which rose to challenge colonial historiography and establish the foundations for the development and nurturing of African historiography at the Ahmadu Bello University, and through it to other Universities and organisations in the rest of Nigeria, Africa and even the wider world. Details
Waiting for Our Rosa Parks. By Shehu Mustapha Chaji (GAMJI) When will Nigerians rise up to resist this sort of inequality and segregation in their motherland? When will an incident such as that of Rosa Parks occur and the whole Nigerian masses rise to obtain their freedom, dignity and honor to be regarded and accepted as fellow equal human beings in our collective country? Details
Burying First Ladyism In Nigeria. By Umar Tanimu Umar (GAMJI) Despite the order given in 2003 by late Stella Obasanjo for wives of governors to desist from addressing themselves as first ladies, wives of our governors, local government chairmen, e.t.c are still addressed as such, I remember when I was at the Nigerian Ports Authority, the wife of the Managing Director is addressed as First Lady of NPA! Details
The Bellview Boeing Aircraft Crash: Another National Disaster. By Prince Charles Dickson (GAMJI) For 14 whole hours we were guessing while the lives of 117 were not accounted for. It is unheard of that, a whole plane would go missing like a small GSM phone, there is just something about the truth that scares us. Days after this crash nobody has taken the pains within government circles to really say something tangible. Details
(GAMJI) “Phew! Made it under somebody’s name. De Plane’s full, so I had to buy from a tout. But hey, who cares? The aim is 2 get there, right? Anyway, I will call you later when we arrive. The Capt. said the weather is bad, so it will be a rough ride but hey, if he can fly, so can I”....Bala Halilu, one of the Bellview B3210 passengers. The above SMS text message represents, perhaps, the last recorded written words of the late Bala Halilu, a former NNPC and National Maritime Authority employee, whose name would sadly not be found on the released passenger manifest of the ill-fated Abuja-bound Bellview flight B3210 that crashed in the forests of Lisa Village Details
Green Card and Other Realities. By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde (GAMJI) Before coming to the United States of America no one told you “life is hard in Yankee.” I bet no one told you. And even if someone had told you, you wouldn’t have believed his or her counsel. Would you? Indeed for the vast majority of Africans, no one told us the truth about how difficult, complex and discouraging life in this country can be. No one told of how America messes with people’s mind. Details
North for Naught? An Open Letter to Late Premier of Northern Nigeria Sir Ahmadu Bello, The Sardauna of Sokoto. By Aliyu Salisu Barau (GAMJI) What prompts writing this letter is the recent diamond-hard and humiliating truth expressed by President Obasanjo. The Executive President unequivocally notified the governors of the northern provinces that Nigeria was not ready to wait for the tortoise-speed of the north in the race towards making a new Nigeria. Details
(GAMJI) I stand bold to say the idea of making amends with the Yorubas over the MKO affair was a hoax cunningly crafted by our leaders to convince us that we owed the Yoruba people an apology over June 12, and so according to them the right thing was to shift political power from the North to the South. Details
Underlining Factors in Obasanjo/Atiku Feud. By Fixson Femi Akinrimisi (GAMJI) Family feud reached an apparent turning point recently in the PDP when in August Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly asked the Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his running mate in the two recent Presidential elections in Nigeria to resign. According to reliable sources, the call by President Olusegun Obasanjo for Vice President Atiku Abubakar to resign, or be fired from the office of the Vice President of Nigeria was attributed to determinations by the President that his second in command, the Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubaka is not loyal. Details
The Wabaras: Felicia & Senator Adolphous Wabara; Suddenly Rich? By Paul I. Adujie (GAMJI) Felicia Wabara, the wife of the former Nigerian Senate President, Senator Aldolphous Wabara, purchased a house in New York a few months ago for one million dollars cash! ... and since then, the public focus has seemingly shifted to President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku’s squabble, the Dukubo gangsters and other matters. The Wabaras controversy has seeped into oblivion, as it has hardly received a mention in the Nigerian media! Details
Death of the First Lady of Nigeria. By Professor Stephen K. Odaibo (GAMJI) For an important personality like the first lady, an advanced party of Nigerian surgeon to the hospital where the surgery took place would discuss the implications of the surgical procedure they plan to use and be present at the operating theatre at the time of surgery and to make sure that she is not included in any new randomized surgical research trial. Some overseas hospitals are not as meticulous as you may think especially when she is addressed as that black lady and not as the first lady at least for her monetary worth. Details
Is Nigeria As A Country Sick? By Wale Akin (GAMJI) I washed the gory site on CNN here in the UK and was so shocked to see loads of on-lookers who also doubled as sympathizers walking and rummaging right at the site of the crash, now my question is thus, was that site cordoned off at all in order to not tamper with evidences that would necessary be of paramount importance to aid investigation? Details
Fasting Without Tears: The Shekarau Example. By Mohammed Abdullahi Dambatta (GAMJI) Under this year’s programme, about 25,000 dishes are being provided daily at the cost of about N200 per dish. Because there is a high concentration of Kano’s people in Kano town, the feeding committee is said to be concentrating more on the eight local councils that make up the Kano metropolis. However, to take care of the rural people, each of the state’s 44 local councils is spending about N150,000, daily in five wards on feeding people. When this is added up to the about N100 million being spent by the state government, one discovers that about N250 million would be spent on this year’s Ramadan feeding. Death
Season Of Death. By ‘Dare Lasisi (GAMJI) While we sympathise with President Obasanjo and fellow Nigerians on the sudden transition of Stella Obasanjo (Nee Abebe), this is the right time for the federal government of Nigeria to effectively restructure the ailing health sector and discourage the routine overseas medical check-ups of government officials and top politicians. A word is enough for the wise! Details
Is It Really Worth Fighting For A Third Term? By Reno Omokri (GAMJI) From the first crisis of his presidency i.e. the sharia issue where he refused to be provoked to take a rash action, to the Odi issue, it is obvious that Obj has as his priority the continued corporate existence of Nigeria. He shies away from taking drastic action when that might affect the continued existence of Nigeria, and then overreacts where he feels that such overreaction would scare different groups who might want to rock the boat a la Zaki Biam, Odi and Plateau state. Details
AIT Deserved Some Sanctions, Not A Shutdown! By Paul I. Adujie (GAMJI) I am an advocate of Press Freedom, I believe in the right of the citizens to know. I support the pending bill at our national assembly that will hopefully be transformed into Freedom of Information Act. I abhor censorship. But reckless journalism is also injurious Details
Where Is The Offence Of Journalists? By Ebele Okeke (GAMJI) As we rolled into the dark days of General Sani Abacha (Late) Evidently, the atmosphere was calculatively created to make life solitary, brutish, nasty and short for the press, yet the nose of the journalist knew no bound in sniffing and reporting news from and to all nooks and crannies of the society. Details
Na Only Nigeria Sabi God? By Jaafar S. Jaafar (GAMJI) Press must contend with unreliable news sources, because sometimes hoaxes are slipped into newspapers. “Foolish is the man who never reads newspaper; even more foolish is the man who believes what he reads just because it is in the newspaper” – August von Schlozer, German historian and journalist of the late 18th century.Details
A Democratic Path in Jeopardy? By Bonkoo, Tombari Tobby (GAMJI) Our entire society is at a crossroad over a culture of corrupt practices-the rapid and hitch free way of achieving personal success. We must not provide a safe haven to some visionless leaders, who are using ethnicity to buttress why we should support their selfish corrupt practices Details
The Fallacy Of Shekarau’s Human Development. By Mahmud Mustapha (GAMJI) By revoking the power-generating contract Shekarau threw away Kano’s golden opportunity of industrial rebirth, which she desperately needs to return to the good days of growth and prosperity that once characterized her and her people. By revoking the contract, Shekarau has denied the army of unemployed youth the chance of securing jobs in the 350 closed industries Details
Letter to Africa: A Nation Mourns Two Tragedies. By Chika Onyeani (GAMJI) Only Stella could tell us what made her do it. Unfortunately she is no more, and we must mourn her passing. I am reminded of what a minister of God once told me, that "death is an appointment that we must never fail to keep with our maker." Details
Can The Dream-Team Overcome Adamawa’s Ogre? By Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo (GAMJI) For the remaining Adamawa population, it was years of captivity or “house-arrest.” For the last half-a-dozen years, the locusts looted, pilfered, molested, maimed and killed. Public service became personal service. This was so much so that the Finance Commissioner and the SSG who were not covered by the now obnoxious legislative contraption called immunity clause, were picked-up by the EFCC to cut down the misconduct of the most predatory government in human history. Details
(GAMJI) Some Nigerians are sprinting and springing to the defense of theiveing Governor Alamiesegha of Bayelsa state, but why are they doing this? Whatever happened to shame and embarrassment? Why do thieves and criminals, now turn instant celebrities in Nigeria? How come scandals no longer shock some Nigerians? Where is the outrage? Details
(GAMJI) Clearly, the Americans seem to chose when demand and supply or the so-called rules of free market are relevant or when the selectively deem such concepts irrelevant, regarding American agricultural products which America heavily subsidizes, as they do steel, aircrafts and many other American products, which also now include oil prospecting. Considering all the above, it is crucially important that Nigerians support the efforts by President Obasanjo to elevate participation by Nigerians and indigenous Nigerian companies in the downstream and upstream sectors of Nigeria’s oil prospecting, oil exploration and exploitation. This means Nigeria’s oil wealth circulate among more Nigerians.
Governor Of Bayelsa Can Appoint Ambassadors? By Paul I. Adujie (GAMJI) Where there is duty, there is responsibility and obligations. It would appear that too many public office holders in Nigeria are only interested in the benefits conferred on them, by virtue of their public positions and the perquisites they derive as public office holders? Details
The Inside Story of Nigeria's First Military Coup (Part 1). By Max Siollun Major Nzeogwu has since 1966, been touted as the leader of the January 1966 coup. This has been widely presumed due to the visible role which Nzeogwu played during and after the coup. Nzeogwu was the only Major to successfully execute the coup in his designated target region. He then followed up his coup success with his infamous “our enemies are the…..” speech. Thus the (false) assumption that he was the coup leader spread. The truth may be somewhat different. It was not until the coup plot reached its logistical stage that Nzeogwu was brought in to the conspiratorial group. The brains behind the coup was probably Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, however Ifeajuna was chased out of Nigeria’s then capital city of Lagos by Major-General Ironsi. Realising that Ironsi was rounding up those that took part in the coup, Ifeajuna fled to Ghana, leaving Nzeogwu to hold the fort. Details
Slug:In Borno State, "Helloing" is a Horrowing Experience. By Adeaze Okonkwo (GAMJI) Indeed, whether it is high tariff or troubles connected with location or fear of insecurity, the vanishing point of the matter of is that GSM roadside operators in Maiduguri cannot be absolved from suffering numerous impediments to successful mobile telecommunication operations in Bono state. Details
The Nigeria Police Force: A Threat or a Pride? By Adaeze Okonkwo (GAMJI) More so, it is clear that the Nigerian police force, is the most unscrupulous organisation, that the general public has totally lost confidence in and disaffected with. It is still fresh in our memory, the outburst and lashing against the Lagos State Commend, when in 1998 the then Lagos State Police Commission Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, severely fulminated accusation against his men, that they (N.P.F) were conspicuously involved in crimes and crime related acts across the state. Details
(GAMJI) Surely, student unions bodies irrespective of which, are a conduit of corruption through which future leaders learn the rules of the game. And in today's Nigeria, they are absolute irrelevant and of all the irresponsible student union bodies across the country, the so – called Student Union Government or SUG seems to be the most irresponsible and corrupt of all. Details
Settling Personal Scores And The Alamieyeseigha’s Ordeal. By Okoh Emeka (GAMJI) The arrest, detention and further prosecution of a serving executive governor of a state in far away Britain is a disgrace to the image of the country in the eyes of the international community, especially when the case is more of political than criminal. Details
Professionalizing Journalism: Which Way For NUJ? By Muhammad Khalid (GAMJI) Nigeria journalists are now at the crossed-roads and required extreme care and caution in making their choice. Any slight mistake is capable of endangering to a great extent, the professional and its entire members. Details
Of Eagles' Failure and the Blame Game. By Immam Dalhatu Immam(GAMJI) Thank God, all attention has now shifted to Egypt, with coach Austin Eguavoen assuring the nation that Nigeria will win the event. "It is a big blow that we will not be in Germany next year but what we need to do now is to try and pick up the pieces. We may have lost the chance to play in the World Cup but we still have the potential to win the Nations Cup in Egypt," said Eguavoen, who took charge of the national team in June after the Eagles were held to a 1-1 draw in Kano. Details
Road Safety Or Road Nuisance: The Case of Road Safety Marshals in Yola. By Ihas Idriess, A. (GAMJI) It’s no longer secret that the Road Safety Corp is the most useless agency to be created by any government in this country; it is an agency whose work you can find in the schedule of duty of the police. When the agency was establish by the past ruler of the country, General Babangida, it was believed then as it is today that it was meant to silenced one vocal human right activist who happen to be its first Oga. Details
Let Us Poison PDP, Obasanjo's Arrangement. By Prince Charles Dickson (GAMJI) Often, Nigerians are exaggerative, do you blame us? When out 8 of 10 Nigerian politicians is a potential or practicing crook, then safely you cannot but conclude that the bunch is certainly rotten. From Dariye, Alamieyeseigha, Wabara, Ngige, Bukola Saraki, Oyinlola, Obasanjo, Atiku, Marwa, IBB et al very few of these men can pass the morality test. Details
Youth Corps Members And Hardtimes: Can They Build The Bridge? By Adeaze Okonkwo (GAMJI) Sadly enough, most elderly Nigerians easy recount past experiences of the good-old-days without considering twisted and wrangle-infested faces of their young listeners, who, obviously, seem to be engulfed in nothing but thought of generational decay and move towards seemingly endless hopelessness. Details
Kebbi’s Medals of Shame! By Abdullahi Usman In conclusion, it would not be out place to state that Kebbi’s dismal showing in both the 2004 National EMI rating and the 2005 UME Applications table calls for a serious response by way of an immediate declaration of a State of Emergency in the educational sector Details
Shameful North! By Zayyad I. Muhammad (GAMJI) More than thirty-two years of firm grabbed on the affairs of Nigeria, in all her political sphere, sitting on the vast and most fertile agricultural land of Nigeria, having enormous population; economically-wide-spread water resources and patient commoners; today, our cherished North is nothing but a jumble, a shadow of the dream of her founding fathers and a pseudo of the promised destination. Details
Rename Abuja National Stadium After Emmanuel Ifejuana. By Opeyemi Ajala (GAMJI) As the nation thrives to be the 2014 Commonwealth Games host, it behooves one to ponder on the fate of the nation’s first Commonwealth champion, the late super athlete, Major Emmanuel Ifejuana, who brought the country’s first major honour in an international sporting competition way back in Vancouver 54 Commonwealth Games. On January 15, 1966, Major Ifejuana was one of the five Majors that staged the first military coup in Nigeria that resulted in the murder of the Prime Minister and the Northern and Western Regional Premiers. Details
“Okada”: An Importance Fast Losing. By Mohammed Abba Sadiq (GAMJI) The important role played by this popular means of transportation is fast losing. Too many factors come to inter play in making it a sort of a “mobile coffin”. The high rate of accidents involving commercial motorcycles in the cities today calls for attention. What are the factors responsible”, what is to be done? Who are responsible? There are many questions than answers, but which ever way, we can not continue like that. The proliferation of commercial motorcycles business could be attributed positively to many reasons. Details
Between Obasanjo and Abacha A Time to Reflect. By Ibrahim Aji Ndiriza Debiro (GAMJI) Nigeria, Nigerians and the Nigerian media, it is high time we begin to eulogize the virtues in Gen. Sani Abacha and stop deceiving the masses about Gen. Abacha. He was a patriot that died serving the fatherland in the number one office. The present regime should stop painting the man black because he was not. Details
Open Letter To Mallam Ribadu. By Akinyemi Akinlabi (GAMJI) We are all aware that one of the greatest threats to good governance as well as the inflow of foreign investors to Nigeria is the high level of corruption and white collar crimes. A situation where known fraudsters emerge as Ministers, Senators, Commissioners and even Governors can not augur well for the country. Although aspiring political office holders are currently being screened by INEC, Police and SSS (I have been screened twice), the screening will be more creditable if EFCC is included. Detail
Post UME Examinations: A Final Death to University Education. By Pius Isume (GAMJI) The very vexing question of the need for a post UME examination has raised serious concerns for me and other like minded people who rather than congratulate Jamb for the corrupt infiltration of their ranks would rather insist that the Universities as set out today in a corrupt laden country as Nigeria are worst placed to be entrusted with the enormous responsibility of subjecting students to examinations other than that done by Jamb. Details
Is Our Future Mortgaged to Inexperienced Politicians? By Bonkoo Tombari Tobby (GAMJI) It is now a seeming believable culture to many Nigerians that hardship is a way of life and that to get out of such situation, one must endeavored him or her selves into siphoning public money – either in the government sectors or religious arenas. The program of this great evil genius gives birth the coded 419 practices in Nigeria and beyond its territories. It is therefore a rooted culture in the minds of today’s cream of Nigeria leaders. Details
Help: Nigeria’s Looting Leaders Are Wreaking Havoc on the Future of Our Children! By Emakoji Ayikoye (GAMJI) To lay this to rest, I must philosophically suggest this thought to our political leaders hoping it will sink deep into their minds: “when you take care of your children when they are young, they will take care of you when you are old, but when you don’t, they will not take care of you when you are old.” Therefore, get wise now and stop destroying the future of our children by your sickening loots! Details
The 2007 Elections Have Been Rigged Already But... By Ibrahim Saleh (GAMJI) Despite the early alarm over this preliminary electoral irregularities, I continued to give the exercise benefit of the doubt while dismissing the alarm as a preventive measure carried too far because I could not just believe the kind of reports emanating from various states regarding the exercise since the PDP, which rules Nigeria via OBJ, claims to abide by Due Process and transparency in all that it does - the proven pretext not withstanding. Details
English: Not Our Mother Tongue. By Happiness Otete (GAMJI) Fellow country people, is there anything that we can do to obliterate the borrowed language and replace it with a national one? This question, I believe, I am not the first to ask it and possibly may not be the last to re-echo-it. Nigeria has been dragging feet over thins issue for quite a long time now. Details
Hello Nigeria! A Word is Enough for the Wise. By Adam Kolo (GAMJI) Inspite of the theoretical fact that Nigeria hosts and is currently being ruled by purportedly the acclaimed largest single ruling party on the African continent that is, PDP little moisture and nutrients get to the Nigerian grassroots from the soil of the acclaimed miraculous umbrella-bearing political party that is believed, by its partisans, to have possessed the political prowess to distribute power to the people. Details
The Deputy As Colleague. By Anthony A. Akinola (GAMJI) Refusal to carry out an instruction that borders on thuggery should not mean that a decent deputy is disloyal. The Governor should have found a better way of illustrating the type of loyalty he demands. Details
Celebrating 44 years of Cameroon’s Reunification: Has it Succeeded? By Elie Smith (GAMJI) There are many reasons advanced on why the people of British Southern Cameroon opted for reunification with French-speaking Cameroon. Some were already mentioned above, but others allege that, it was the faults of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the successor of Herbert Macaulay the founder of the NPNC. Details
The North's Achilles' Heel By Habeeb Baba-Bukar (GAMJI) To start with, with the exception of Katsina State, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) classify all the remaining eighteen (18) states of the North as Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS) Details
A President And His Party Cards. By Abubakar Ibn Kachalla (GAMJI) Despite President Olusegun Obasanjo’s exhortation about the need not to overheat the polity, the activities of desperate anti-democratic elements within the party, actively aided and abetted by the President himself, is a contradiction of whatever good intent such moral message may have contained. Details
PDP: The Journey Into Madness. By Bassey Henshaw-Jack (GAMJI) What once burgeoned as a promising rose of democracy and freedom, the PDP is today widely perceived as a distressing stigma on whatever virtues democracy ever preaches. Details
Discipline and Morality in Nigeria: A Way Forward. By Aisha Liman Yaro (GAMJI) In my own personal observation I believe that the major cause of these problems is poverty. For instance, a poor man faces the world as a hopeless underdog. In every event involving him and others the poor man is constantly reminded of his failure in life. Details
(GAMJI) First of all, the writer believes that Nigerians are about the smartest people in the world, but our values and focus is kind of blur. Details
Poverty in Wealth: The Nigerian Emblem. By Muhammed Ibrahim Adamkolo (GAMJI) Nigerians are actually living poor, impoverished and diseased in abundance. The wealth is there in its abundance yet like the saline ocean water which is so abundant that it circles the world cannot be drunk. Details
A Pandemic on the Ravage. By Danladi (GAMJI) Cross River State has 12.0 per cent of its total population infected and represents the worse case among the 36 states of the federation. The national sero prevalence rate for youths between the age bracket of 20 – 24 stands at 5.6 per cent and that of women between the age bracket of 15 – 24 stands at 5.2 per cent. In deed, it is quite alarming that Nigeria with a population of over 120 million people is the first populous country to have reached the 5 per cent prevalence rate which shows a higher probability of increase in the epidemic. Details
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