By AKIN BANJOKO As a writer of Nigerian descent living in the United States, US, whenever I attend writers’ conferences, workshops or book festivals, my American colleagues always ask me if I have read certain books about Nigeria. There are few I have read, but there are many I have not and this usually makes…
Those Boys Must Not Die!
By Amina Salihu I am one who is fairly familiar with the strict hierarchy and the precise discipline of the military, having grown up next to an Army barrack and served military personnel in my mother’s shop while growing up in Zaria. I had and still have a tremendous amount of respect for the military,…
Ribadu: A Matter of Integrity
By Toks Ero That former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, formally defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is no longer news. Mixed reactions have trailed his defection with many Nigerians expressing utter disappointment and disbelief in his perceived unprincipled political and ideological somersault. The act of defection…
Recognising Exemplary Leadership
By Godwin Nzeaka Fifteen years into the Fourth Republic, Nigeria is currently enjoying her longest period of civilian rule. Although the history of the country is replete with a number of failed attempts at civilian rule, many are now beginning to believe that democracy has at last come to stay in the most populous black…
NFF, Enough Is Enough
By ADEGBENRO ADEBANJO The war in Nigerian house of football is coming at the wrong time. At a time the only thing, possibly, going for the country is football, the managers of the game have chosen to engage in an internecine war that can only put the game into disrepute, cripple its growth and invite the…
Nigeria Needs Divine Intervention
Oladipupo Funmilade-Joel – Satellite TV, Lagos Constituency. Going by the current challenges Nigeria is facing, there is every need for Nigerians especially Christians and other faithful believers to continually seek the face of God for divine intervention and divine purpose in Nigeria, so that God’s divine design would be established in the land. In family…
Nigeria’s Ebola Success Story
By FRED ABBA-JORI On July 20, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, became very ill while on a flight from Liberia to Nigeria. On arrival, he was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Lagos where he was initially suspected to have malaria. On further interview however, it was discovered that he had recently been in close contact…
Ensuring the Future of Nigerian Youths
By KAYODE SOTE Education is the means by which people develop their mental knowledge to think rationally and systematically so as to respond effectively and creatively to their world of existence and thus satisfy the curiosity and aesthetic impulse of human beings. Over the course of history, education has developed progressively to recognise the value…
Ebola and the Quarantining of West Africa’s Economies
By Akpan H. Ekpo The West African sub-region is experiencing the Ebola scourge. The Ebola virus disease, EVD, whose outbreak in Guinea occurred in May this year, has spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal. The Nigerian case was due to an American-Liberian who travelled to Nigeria on his way to a conference in…
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