Ever before now, the girl-child education in the North was not thriving as it was supposed to. This was due to several factors, majorly due to the Islamic traditions that often hamper the progression of the female folk. With the…
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THAT FRAUDULENT MARTIN LURTHER KING AWARD
The Buhari APC government will not cease to amaze. Just when you think the handlers of the president have reached their zenith and nadir of infamy and dragging the nation to the bottom in the unabashed efforts to hoodwink the…
GATES AND THE NIGERIAN OSTRICHES – LOUIS ODION
In the last decade, billionaire Bill Gates is reputed to have funneled estimated $1.6b (Over N500b) of his own hard-earned fortune into humanitarian causes in Nigeria, especially immunization for kids against polio with a view to helping to end the…
BILL GATES AS “A WAILING WAILER” – REUBEN ABATI
“I do not enjoy speaking to you this bluntly when you have been gracious enough to invite me here…” – Bill Gates. Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, friend of Nigeria and one of the richest men in the world was…
BILL GATES’ GRISLY WARNING – JERRY UWAH
Bill Gates painted a grim picture of Nigeria’s healthcare and education sectors last week. The world’s richest man and co-founder of the Bill/ Melinda Gates Foundation listed Nigeria as one of the most dangerous places in the world to give…
NIGERIA, ECOWAS AND THE MOROCCO QUESTION
TUESDAY WITH REUBEN ABATI I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient…
POLITICAL DEVALUATION OF THE NIGERIAN LIFE – Emmanuel Aziken
Hearing partisans of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC weave and untie conspiracy theories around the abduction and release of the Dapchi Secondary School girls must be sickening to anyone that values human life. Without…
DAPCHI GIRLS: OF SHAM RELEASE AND CYNICAL CITIZENRY – SUFUYAN OJEIFO
Between February 19, 2018 when the Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted by supposed Boko Haram insurgents and Wednesday, March 21, 2018, when the news broke that 76 of them had been released, I had offered perspectives on the incident in two…
AS HERDSMEN TURN “LANDLORDS” IN DELTA STATE
Unbelievable! That was the reactions of most Nigerians when Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State recently told the Assistant Inspector-General of Police for Zone 5, Mr. Rasheed Akintunde, that owners of farmlands in Uwheru, Ughelli North Local Government Area, now…
PHENOMENAL WOMEN…
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’ They will say, Women don’t have what it takes”-Clare Boothe Luce The Nigerian political space…