OPINION

The surge of colossal examination collapse in Nigeria

By Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu

 The issue of examination failure in Nigeria has become a characteristic of great concern to parents, teachers, stakeholders in the education supervision, and even to the students. This calls for drastic harnessing to attain international position compared to what obtains in continents like the United States of America (USA) and Europe. 

PRESS RELEASE

Nigeria: Princewill commended for media centre donation

By Nwaorgu Faustinus

The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh. Bamanga Tukur has commended the donation of a media centre to the PDP Headquarter in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria by Prince Tonye Princewill.

NEWS

Nigerian star, Rashidi Yekini is dead

By Ola Ajayi

A retired Nigerian footballer, Rashidi Yekini who scored the country’s first goal at the World Cup is dead. Yekini who was born in Kaduna was said to have died in his Kwara residence.

OPINION

Amaechi, oil companies & the rains

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Amaechi

The rains are here again. Many people want it to rain always because of the intensely scorching sun, while others do not want it because of the condition of the area they are living in Rivers State.

COMMENTARY

Why Nigerian women are so poor

By  Emmanuel Onwubiko

Are you one of those Nigerians deceived into believing that our Nigerian women are as affluent and comfortable as their male counterparts? Are you confused to reach this hasty conclusion because of media celebration of some few influential women holding very promising and prominent prime positions in some bluechip companies in the private sector? 

COMMENTARY

EFCC vs. Kalu: Looking beyond slander, but truth

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

 It was Abraham Lincoln who said that Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. With the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s (EFCC) renewed efforts to curb corruption in the country, Nigerians are not doubtful about the seriousness of the agency. It has shown that the war against corruption is endless.

OPINION

Systemic corruption, James Ibori & Nigeria’s justice system

 By Nwaorgu Faustinus

That corruption has become endemic, hydra-headed and even emasculated the political, religious, social and economic landscape of the sub-Saharan clime (Nigeria not exception) and has eaten so deep into its sustaining bone marrow cannot be overstressed. 

COMMENTARY

Ghanaians’ dangerous tribalism: Resolving the misunderstandings

 By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Kennedy Agyapong

The pronouncement by the Assin North Member of Parliament, from the opposition National Patriotic Party, the hot-headed Kennedy Agyapong, on the Accra-based Oman FM station, which he owns, that people from the Ewe and Ga ethnic groups should be killed in the Ashanti Region, once again opens the unresolved issues of tribalism in Ghana, 50 years after freedom from British colonial rule.

COMMENTARY

Thoughts on the Charles Taylor verdict

By Lansana Gberie

I have been asked by many people about my views on the conviction, on 26 April, of Charles Taylor, Liberia’s former president, for aiding and abetting Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF). 

COMMENTARY

Amaechi, Nigerian idol & other talented people

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Mercy Chinwo

The affirmation by Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State that Mercy Chinwo, the conqueror of the Nigerian Idol season 2, should anticipate the state government’s support towards her education and music career, is a hope given in good faith that must be lauded.

MATtERS ARISING

Trafficking in human beings & organs in Sinai: everything the same
By Everyone Group

Here is another case of abduction and atrocities against a young Eritrean. We received the first report today by Tesfay, an Eitrean refugee who lives in the EU. 

Rome / Arish, April 28, 2012. Trafficking in human beings and organs in the Sinai, surrounded by the indifference, is tragic just like it was before. 

VIDEO SPEECH

Wole Soyinka: Mission the future