On assuming office earlier this year, after the purge of Nigeria’s top military echelon owing to what President Goodluck Jonathan described as “Lack Of Cooperation” amongst top military brass, the Chief Of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh declared that the insurgency in the North East of Nigeria will be brought to an end […]
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU have been on strike since the 4th of October, 2013 without any resolution in sight. The government claims they’ve met 90% of the demands of the lecturers but apparently that, if true does not appear to impress […]
I found today’s news headlines quite disturbing. Not because it is a strange occurrence that was reported, it is moreso because this occurrence though strange and unusual in the scale of brutality has become accepted as norm in today’s Nigeria. It is the killing of 29 (42 according to the Associated Press, AP) students and […]
Since the declaration by the federal government of it’s intention to set up a committee to work out the modality of setting up a National Conference that will afford Nigerians the opportunity to talk and fashion the way forward, the polity as well as the media have being awash with reactions from all and sundry. […]
Finally, the People’s Democratic Party has bared it’s fangs and the man behind the masquerade has become exposed. It has been insinuated over times that there’s no love lost between Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The suspension of Governor Amaechi yesterday by the National Working Committee of the PDP has finally […]
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