HUNGER PROTESTS: IGBO SILENCE IS A PROTEST (A Reply to Prof Usman Yusuf) By Law Mefor

A few days ago, Ndigbo came under fire from Professor Usman Yusuf, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), for their perceived lack of interest in the ongoing nationally spreading hunger protests and strikes. He said: “I honestly don’t know why the South East is quiet, uncharacteristically quiet. But the President needs to find out.”   Normally, one would disregard and deny additional visibility to a professor whose only contribution to national progress is Fulani supremacism for such an insulting and inflammatory tirade. However, it is…

Is the Devil in the Details? By Olaleye Olawale

President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election bid was the most dramatic in contemporary Nigeria’s electoral history. The charade of begging leaders to run for office started with him, unashamedly.   It was at his Ota farm, Ogun State, and the open space was filled to capacity, with marquee spread across the sitting areas. Everyone was there for just one thing: to beg baba to seek re-election.   After listening to different speakers, who had begged him profusely to run as if Nigeria was suffering a dearth of leadership, Obasanjo mounted the stage…

APC Digging Its Own Grave in Edo,by Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will, once again, stage this rite of self-destruction in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State.   The party’s primaries on Saturday was such a shambles, it has now been forced to conduct it again, with no guarantee of a sensible outcome for an exercise involving perhaps less than 500,000 members (parties routinely inflate their roll). If Governor Godwin Obaseki’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had paid…

City Boy and the Reality of Governance By Olaleye Olawale

In the lead up to the 2015 general election, Nigeria – either by accident or design – was marooned between the Rock and a hard place. The choice of electing the ideal leader (if that’s applicable in Nigeria’s case) was not an easy run.   But a majority of the people was already tired of the rock (Goodluck Jonathan), who had refused to yield as they had expected. The idea of giving the hard place (Muhammadu Buhari) an opportunity was though with reluctance, it was the most popular at the…

Africa Diaspora, catalyst for continental development – Dabiri-Erewa

For Africa to experience socio-economic resurgence, prosperity and development, the onus lies with Africans at home and more importantly its Diaspora. Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NIDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, stated this when she received a delegation from Zimbabwe led by its High Commissioner to Nigeria Amb. Maxwell Ranga, on a study tour of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, in Abuja.   Dabiri-Erewa expressed joy that more African States were beginning to recognise the worth of their Diasporas, as she noted that these Diasporas are the catalysts for a progressive continent…

Akpabio: A Man for Every New Season, By Olusegun Adeniyi

Godswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an interdenominational church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we are seeking in Nigeria. That solution is the election of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for a second term in office. When you do that, you would show that you are not a…

A new sherif is in town,Hon Oyetunde Ojo, MD/CEO,Federal Housing Authority

The Managing Director and Chief Executive, Federal Housing Authority, Hon Oyetunde Ojo, has reiterated the readiness of the Authority’s new Executive Management Team to turn around the agency’s fortune in line with the Renewed Hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu .   Hon Ojo revealed this at the inaugural meeting on Thursday, 22nd February 2024, between the Hon. Minister of Housing and Urban Development Arc Ahmed Musa Dangiwa with the agencies under his ministry.   The MD, who said he has noted the lapses on the side of the…

NOA ,DHQ to partner on values reorientation

National Orientation Agency (NOA) and the Defence Headquarters have agreed to work together towards imparting proper values to citizens including the military. This was the outcome of a meeting between the Director General of NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa held at the DHQ yesterday. During the visit, the Director General explained NOA’s mandates and highlighted its programmes aimed at modernizing its structures by establishing twenty-first-century platforms accessible to all arms of government and agencies. Recognizing the pivotal role of the military in…