One Scandal Begets Another in Ekiti State, By Ogaga Ifowodo
Ekiti State, the self-styled “Land of Honour,” can’t seem to do anything honourable in recent times. “Ile iyi, ile eye” or “Land of honour, land of integrity,” its moto boasts. Having coined the imperishable new phrase “stomach infrastructure” to define its loftiest vision of governance, and gone ahead to elect…
In The Life Of A Thug, beating A Judge Is Fair Game, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju
There are tells in the Ekiti Story for the Ekiti’s, the Yorubas especially, and Nigerians. The poor masses are the schnooks, taken hostage, pillaged and duped by their favorite thug and crook. Slaps and unsolicited beating is what you get when you elect a blow-dried thug because he played Ayo…
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Education Is Scary, By Margee Ensign
“Education is scary. There are so many people who discouraged us, given that our girls were kidnapped and escaped, and told us we should not put them in school again. Now, we who have agreed, we are giving our children to you. You are the ones to protect them and…
Nigeria’s September of Shipwrecks, By Okey Ndibe
This September, I was determined to scour for signs that Nigeria was moving in a good direction. I was able to count one solid, uplifting sign: the country’s apparent arrest of the Ebola virus. Given the devastation the virus continues to wreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the Nigerian…
Who Believes the Lie that There Are More People in the North Than in the South? By Femi Aribisala
Everything turns upside down in Nigeria. Logic becomes illogical. Wisdom becomes foolishness. Two plus two becomes seven. Hospitals become mortuaries. Stealing is not corruption. Education is a sin. In Nigeria, so many things fly in the face of simple commonsense. One major example is the ridiculous idea that, by…
In The Name Of God, By Ose Oyamendan
You don’t have to be the devil to know that there’s trouble in the house of God in Nigeria. And, these are not troubles like drowning while attempting to walk on water or accidentally drinking a bottle of converted “ogogoro”, forgetting they’d just converted it from water. Nigerian men of…
Nigeria Must Lead To Include Justice in Post-2015 MDGs, By John Oziegbe
In the last fourteen years, Nigeria has joined the rest of the world in the pursuit of development targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Undeniably, over the years the MDGs implementation has brought about palpable progress in reducing poverty, addressing issues of women empowerment and participation in…
Escalation of Third Party Campaigning, By Jibrin Ibrahim
Apparently, the Secretary of the Government, Anyim Pius Anyim is now my colleague in civil society. I say this because I heard my good friend Mike Omeri of the National Orientation Agency explaining on radio the other day that the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAM) are civil society activists simply…
Poverty and Rising Food Prices, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Should we be concerned that over the last six (6) months rising food prices have been the single most important cause of the upward movement in headline inflation numbers? The year-on-year price change for the “All Items Price Index” (as measured by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics — NBS) closed…
Nigeria’s Sobering Competitiveness Rankings, By Olu Akanmu
The debate about whether the recent World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) rankings is fair to Nigeria, whether our 120th position out of the 148 countries rated reflect our true reality is too critical to ignore. There are real dangers that rather than reflect deeply and inwardly on the…
