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Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:24
…Mr. Minister, Keep Quiet!
Does this fresh directive have the blessings of President Goodluck Jonathan? We are talking of the latest directive emanating from Inuwa AbdulKadir, minister of youth development, on the posting of graduates to violence-ravaged states in the North. Two weeks ago, General Nnamdi Okore-Affia, director-general, DG, of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, had reluctantly agreed that corps members posted to embattled states where Boko Haram militants are holding the nation hostage are free to seek redeployment to other states of their choice. The DG’s directive actually came on the heels of a motion by the House of Representatives asking…
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:53
Killing Gowon’s Baby Softly, Softly
Alas, reason finally prevailed. We are talking of the tension that ensued in the course of the latest deployment of fresh graduates for the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, programme. Thousands of graduates posted to some northern states had rejected their postings. They had the strong backing of their parents and millions of sympathetic Nigerians. The states detested by the corps members are Borno, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi and Plateau. These are places where anarchy has been walking on four legs, courtesy of the militant sect, Boko Haram. And not a few corps members had lost their…
Attempt by some villagers to scoop fuel from a fell tanker has lead to yet another avoidable fire disaster First, they were happy and grateful to God to be at the right place at the right time. Or so they thought. In fact, many of them had been lucky to have made several trips to the spot where an articulated vehicle conveying a full load of premium motor spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, fell, spilling its content on Thursday, July 12. They went there to scoop the highly inflammable product. To them, one man’s loss was another’s gain.…
Monday, 16 July 2012 14:17
Aloma Mukhtar: An Amazon On the Supreme Bench
The appointment of Aloma Mukhtar as the first female chief justice of Nigeria is seen as one move that opens a new chapter in the history of not only the Nigerian judiciary but also the value attached to the education of the girl-child in northern Nigeria “We can only pray that Justice Mukhtar will improve on the condition in which she found the judiciary at the moment… improve the public perception of the judiciary and also ensure that there is steady dispensation of justice.” With these words, David Mark, president of the Senate appeared to have clearly outlined a…
Monday, 02 July 2012 13:31
Keke Marwa: The Thrills, the Fun
Riding in a commercial tricycle can be both fun and an embarrassment in a city like Lagos If there is one thing Rose Inyang dreads every morning on her way to work from her Magodo Phase I, Lagos home, it is riding on tricycle popularly known as Keke Marwa. But this is one ritual she has to perform everyday if she wants to get to her office early. She works as an administrative secretary in a law firm situated inside the estate. Her cause of worry is the Keke Marwa drivers. “Every time I approach them, they all will…
Due to a combination of neglect, corruption and lack of urban renewal planning on the part of successive governments at the state and federal levels, public transport system in Nigeria’s major cities and towns is in a moribund state Everyday my people dey inside bus, shuffering and shmiling 49(people) sitting 99(people) standing, shuffering and shmiling Dem go pack dem self like sardine, shuffering and shmiling Dem dey faint dem dey wake like cock, shuffering and shmiling… - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, late Afrobeat maestro, on the chaotic living in Nigeria’s urban centres It is a timeline of descent from grace…
Friday, 29 June 2012 11:21
‘Mr. Integrity’ Vs ‘Mr. OteDollar’
Honourable Farouk Lawan, member of the House of Representatives, is no stranger to political intrigues and tales of bribery. He has seen quite a few in the lower chamber in the last 13 years. As a young man of 37 in 1999, he witnessed the unmasking of the then speaker of the House, Salisu Buhari, who claimed credentials he did not have. That was in the early days of the return to civil rule. And when in 2007 the House decided they did not want the Speaker imposed on them by the Executive, Lawan was at the heart of…
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