Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu Onwumere wrote in from Rivers State, Nigeria.

2015: Kalu, Jonathan, Abia people and the reassurance

Judging by the mind-blowing degree of support the people have shown to Kalu, he in return pledged his conviction that the elections of 2015 in the state will be free of rigging and any iota of intimidations or harassment of the electorates...

Nigeria's education sector and UNESCO's report

The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, in Nigeria, Professor Hassana Alidou, at a recent launch of the Education For All, EFA, Global Monitoring Report, GMR, said that Nigeria has some of the worst education indicators in the world...

Abia Workers Celebrate 7 Months Of No Salary

A fortnight, a lecturer with the Abia State Polytechnic called and was weeping. I thought that he had lost somebody. Although, I had not met with the caller in person, but on enquiring why he was crying, he told me that could I imagine that lecturers in the school have not been paid their salaries for seven months....

Orji and the Bullet that killed John Ndukuba

Gov. T.A. Orji should stop looking for only fools to be those he wants to govern. From the incessant threat to my own life, it is obvious that he does not want to govern and see wise men from or in Abia State...

Gov. T.A. Orji has no hiding place

The truth about the government of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State can only be bent, but cannot be broken...

Infusing Character Education into Nigeria's school Curriculum

Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family values as a result of 'errant and absent' parents, the school is fast becoming an indispensable character molder of children...

Kalu is not Orji

Let all those who see Kalu as Orji leave him alone. Businesses did not leave Abia State in droves during Kalu’s administration, but are leaving in droves under Orji’s government...

Kalu and the Season of Partnership

The partnership with Toro-Atlantic Global Limited caused a ceremony in Dubai that attracted the eyes of the crème de la crème in business the world over...

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