Again, the nation was treated to a needless power show on Sunday when Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State and his counterpart in Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, issued different conflicting statements on a meeting of the Governors’ Forum. While we acknowledge the schism in the forum caused by the re-election of Governor Amaechi as Chairman [...]
There is nothing as painful as nursing a pregnancy for nine months and losing the baby immediately after birth. That is the agony Mrs. Ezinne Chukwuemaka Osuji has been subjected to by those who stole her son a few hours after the baby was born on 5 June, 2013 at a ‘Maternity home’ in Nworiebi, [...]
These days in Nigeria, clicking seems to have replaced thinking and viewing and browsing seem to have replaced reading, discovering and inventing. In theory, the social media are meant to increase and strengthen social ties. But with the wrong balance as it seems the case in our country, the social media end up destroying individual [...]
The recent warning by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against political campaigns by politicians and political parties ahead of the 2015 general elections should be taken seriously by all. The commission in a statement issued last Sunday by its spokesman, Lanre Idowu, condemned the unbridled manner politicians and political parties in the country had [...]
How long will containers fall off flat beds of trucks and kill motorists? This is a poser for law enforcement agencies and other relevant authorities, given the frequent cases of containers falling and crushing motorists and pedestrians in Lagos and other states. If those in authority have feelings, they should have put measures in place [...]
What Karl Marx said in his book, The German Ideology, that the ideas of the ruling class have ever been in every epoch the ruling ideas is very true, given the kind of witch-hunt that is taking place in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Now, the turn of events in the party has shown [...]
The cenotaph unveiled by the Lagos State Government on Monday in honour of the 3 June, 2012 Dana plane crash victims is full of indefensible errors and must be replaced. When the plane crashed last year in Lagos, it had 146 passengers and seven crew on board. According to the Lagos State government, four persons [...]
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