Tag: P.M.NEWS
Rotimi Amechi Before ‘The Diet Of Worms’
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi Martin Luther, the Augustinian monk was summoned on April 17th, 1521, by Pappenheim, the marshal of…
Run, Jonathan Run
By Ben Nanaghan The drumbeats of the 2015 presidential elections are very clear and even deafening. However the People’s Democratic…
Let There Be Peace In Ekiti
Violence and assassinations often characterise governorship elections in Ekiti State. The fracas that broke out in Ekiti State chapter of…
The Igbo’s Vicious Circle Of Self-Inflicted Injury
By Ogbueshi Nnolim As a Deltan who was brought up in Enugu, schooled in Nsukka, and had business calls in…
Warning On Rivers State Crisis
By Joe Igbokwe Whatever way you choose to look at the political quagmire in Rivers State, it is obvious that…
The Beauty of Being Fat
Reading through a national daily in 2012, I was so fascinated about an article titled Miss Big Nigeria beauty pageant.…
Paying More For Darkness
To many people around the world, Nigeria seems to be a very strange country. The closer you look, the lesser…
Promoting Human Survival Through Tree Planting
By Rasak Musbau The importance of the emergence of tree before the advent of man on earth is not lost…
The Sordid Events In Rivers
By Eneruvie Enakoko The recent events in Rivers State constitute a serious threat to our democracy and collective freedom, and…
Kudirat’s Blood Will Cry For Justice
Nigerians have continued to express outrage over the recent Appeal Court judgement which discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and…
Rivers State Crisis: Issues, Sense And Nonsense
By Bamidele Aturu Rivers State is on fire, literally and otherwise. But that is not really an accurate statement. It…
Anambra 2013: Senator Ngige Holds The Ace This Time
By Joe Igbokwe During the 2010 Anambra governorship elections, I was not in support of Dr Chris Ngige even as…
IAAF Flop: A Wake Up Call
The 8th IAAF World Youth Championship in Ukraine has come and gone. Just like the 2012 London Olympics,Team Nigeria returned…
Waiting For Tambuwal’s Revolution
By Chido Onumah This piece has nothing to do with what is happening in Egypt. Ultimately, Nigerians, based on their…
Is A Nigerian Nelson Mandela A Possibility?
By Ayo Olukotun Nelson Mandela’s prolonged stay in hospital for lung-related complications elicited in his country folks and much of…
Watch Your Friends (2)
The influence of friends on relationships is something you cannot readily deny. There are testimonies/stories that clearly show how friends…
The Mistake Of Courting Chinese Investors In Aviation
When it comes to aviation, Nigeria seems to repeat the same mistakes with an appalling consistency and accuracy. The announcement…
Spooks, Kidnappers and Saviour Obama
By Femi Fani-Kayode In an attempt to apprehend the 30-year old American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, a plane that was carrying…
Yobe Killings Devastated Me As A Father
By Joe Igbokwe I have been trying to imagine the state of minds of the parents and the siblings of…
Living In Convenience
Many food items have become so well accepted that people no longer think of them as convenience foods. A loaf…
The Show Of Shame In Rivers Assembly
The sitting of Nigeria’s Rivers State House of Assembly was disrupted Tuesday when hoodlums led by four renegade members of…
Remembering Achebe, The Right Way
By Emmanuel Arodovwe To many students and scholars of African literature and history, as well as peoples of African descent…
Obama’s Wake Up Call: A Blessing In Disguise
By Joe Igbokwe The dumping of Nigeria by President Barack Obama during his recent visit to Africa does not mean…
Curbing Boko Haram Attacks
Last week, the Boko Haram sect that has wreaked havoc on the country, grabbed the headlines again for its bloodletting…
A Case For The Promotion Of Indigenous Languages
By Matthew Ochuko Language to date remains the most important human invention. The earliest account of its emergence is found…
Much Ado About Immunity Clause
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on Constitution Review stirred the hornet’s nest when it proposed the removal…
Salisu Buhari Can’t Be Member Of UNN Governing Council
By Joe Igbokwe I may not know the current situation now but the University of Nigeria I left in 1985…
2015: Why Buhari Matters
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem We must state unequivocally that we have no illusion about the present order. We…
The Impact Of Lagos Education Reform
By Omotayo Ogunbiyi The impact of qualitative education as the strongest weapon to fight poverty and a useful pillar for…
Watch Your Friends
You need me, I need you is a life’s philosophy no one can dispute. Man was never created to be…