OPINION BY TOM GARBA – Dr. Pongri: Administrative Prowess, Waiting To Be Harnessed

By TOM GARBA There are great Nigerians whose talents, wisdom, and ingenuity have never being taped or harnessed well, still underutilized because of the system failure to spot them for nation building.In the Northeast Region, Dr. Johnson H. Pongri is an Adamawa-born academician whose wealth of experience and vast knowledge in the political history of…

OPINION BY HASSAN GIMBA: Now Is Not The Time To Talk Of Separation

By HASSAN GIMBA The calls for Nigeria to dissolve into its various parts have never been this high. The call is more strident in the Southern part of the country. In the South East, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is calling for autonomy of the zone, populated by the Igbo. In the South West,…

Arresting Unemployment Will End Insecurity In NIgeria

By AUWAL AHMED IBRAHIM “The solution of insecurity is empowering youths with vocational skills for decent jobs and entrepreneurship” –  Professor Idris M. Bugaje, NBTE, E.SNigeria has been battling with insecurity issues in the country for long time from 2002 year calendar with Boko Haram insurgency that started to permeate.Many projections, researches and recommendations were…

OPINION BY FEMI FANI-KAYODE: Four Soul-Searching Questions Nigerians Must Answer

By FEMI FANI-KAYODE “This is utterly reprehensible and unacceptable, for hooligans and way-wards to hold a whole state (Zamfara) to ransom to no avail. Where is the government? Where are the security agencies? Where are the political, community and religious leaders? Where is our conscience? Where is the humanness in us? Above all, where is…

OPINION BY LANRE ISSA-ONILU: Atiku, PDP And Their Drama Troupe

By; LANRE ISA-ONILU The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and some leaders of their traveling theatre group took their troupe to Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State yesterday. In their usual way, they spent hours in the sun, made a lot of noise, and left without making any statement…

Rachael Umahi: 45 garlands for humane, selfless Service to humanity

    By Monica C. Ada Eze March 23, 1972 will forever remain evergreen in the lives of Ebonyi State people, particularly to the family of Mr and Mrs Chukwu and Eunice Akpa of Umuobuna, Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, as that was the day, God in his infinite mercy and wisdom…

Lent: Muslim Philantropist facilitates the release of 9 inmates from Kaduna Prison

By Akon Eddy, Kaduna A Kaduna based  philantropist, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani has effected the release of nine inmates from the Kaduna Central Convict Prison over the weekend. Speaking to the media, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, said it was in the spirit of the Christian fasting period also known as ‘Lent’ that she was moved with compassion…

OPINION BY JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON: The Chairmanship Of The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) And The Unity Of The Region

By JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON Yes! Woke up this morning with the thought of the above subject matter on my mind. I reflected and appraised the over stretched tenure of the former Niger State Governor, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu and the rumours that were being whispered in some quarters on why he remained there almost throughout his…

OPINION BY TONYE BANIGO: Imaginary division in Rivers APC, Glory Emeh’s lone swan song propaganda

  By Tonye Banigo When he claimed he had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), a little over a year ago, not a few members of the APC especially from his Emohua Local Government Area grumbled. Their grouse was that they knew the man Chief Emeh Glory Emeh too well.

From the archives: Comrade Ibrahim Adamu dies fighting….. (1960-2013)

  By Nasiru Suleiman Death is an inevitable end of every man. It is how every life on earth comes to an end of this sojourn here in this temporary place. Yet, when someone close to you passes on, the feeling is so devastating and many hardly recover from their devastated state of being after such occurrence.