The ‘Ajegunle soldier’ in Lagos, Daddy Showkey, one of the most popular musicians in Nigeria, some weeks ago, survived yet another attempt on his life. According to the Edo-born weird talent he was in a filling station in Lagos trying to buy fuel when suddenly two men riding a motorbike accosted him and shot him at close range!
Nigerians are divided by the hocus-pocus Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola-led bribery episode the two-of-a-kind are playing without any show of shame…
Blind patriotism aside, Nigeria can rightfully be described as a country that is richly blessed in poverty, miserable in abundance, and saturated in wants. As a people, we have had our share of intellectually barren, politically ignorant and pugnacious leaders who emerged from, or forced themselves on us as a direct consequence of prolonged military misrule and dictatorship in the country…
While everyone may be getting a Smartphone, not everyone is getting smarter. We have convinced ourselves that we have to listen to music all the time. Other people are content with downloading limitless number of applications that they probably won’t use. But since there is enough memory space, it’s okay to download all sorts of junk. We have simply reached a stage where we just keep bouncing endless chat and text messages back and forth with our digital applications…
Nasir El Rufai, in his most recent article on Peter Obi and Anambra State, did not provide us with credible references or scholarly sources that validate the statistics he utilized. However, it was not difficult to find out his source which is the National Bureau of Statistics…
What the Federal Government is perhaps oblivious of is that the image of Nigeria and Nigerians is incessantly battered outside the shores of this country by the EFCC…
Frankly, I used to think I was a strong-hearted person until Monday, June 4, when I began sieving through tons of photographs of the Dana plane crash of Sunday, June 3, 2012 on the Internet. I didn’t know when tears began to stream from my eyes…
As we mark yet another June 12, there are some simple but important considerations that we, the people of Nigeria within and beyond the borders of the country need to continue to seriously make. Ordinarily, considerations and discussions about a Nigerian June 12 should be general and amongst citizens and scholars on civics and sovereignty of nations…
It is beginning to look like a child’s game but this is a serious business. President Obama and his reelection team have a formidable fight in their hands as they put together the strategies to defeat presumed Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney…
For too long, our country has been training people who only know how to keep the routine going; people who can answer questions but don’t know how to ask questions; people who are experts in maintaining what has been handed on to them without adding any value; people who can fulfill goals but don’t know how to set them…
The fresh decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria to distribute textbooks and other instructional materials to students in public schools and colleges across the country could not have come at a much better time than now, at least against the backdrop of the wobbly fortunes of the all-important education industry in Nigeria in recent times…