By Umunna Kalu Dr Anthony Ubani, Executive Director, FixPolitics, in this encounter with select journalists, speaks on the vision of the organization, the urgency for Diaspora voting, need for a new constitution that will pave way in rebuilding the Triangular pillars of democracy. Ubani argued that the political class has captured and compromised all the […]
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By Akeem Awere It is the first anniversary of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Yet, the edgy feeling which pervaded the Buhari Administration’s eight-year rule has continued unabated. Many within the country now regard the present situation as worse than what he inherited from his predecessor. Recall that in his inaugural speech of May 29th, […]
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By Umunna Kalu Recently, the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, raised a controversial policy issue concerning reversing the entry age for admission into universities and other tertiary institutíons in Nigeria from 16 to 18 years. Mamman raised the contending issue during his tour of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination centres, in Bwari, the Federal […]
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By Umunna Kalu Activist and President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima in this chat assesses President Bola Tinubu’s administration as it marks it’s one year scorecard. Shettima, spoke on other critical issues including off-season elections. Excerpt President Tinubu’s administration will be clocking one year in office on May 29. So far, what […]
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By Umunna Kalu The obnoxious reign of bread and butter politicians, those without principles and political parties without ideology is steadily taking the country by the storm. Unarguably, today, the supposed voices of the opposition are decamping into the ruling parties, majorly, for pecuniary gain’s with the nation’s fragile democracy dovetailing into a One party […]
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By Umunna Kalu Comrade Joseph Evah is the Coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) and a former Publicity Secretary of the Ijaw National Congress. In this engaging chat with insidenigeriang.com, the influential Niger Delta activist who speaks truth to power no matter whose ox is gored spoke on some national issues including the challenge before President […]
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By Akeem Awere After about almost a week-long outrage and outcry against the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria to levy a 0.5 percent cybersecurity charge on electronic transactions, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally bowed to the pressure of the Nigerian public and listened to the people’s voice. The President on May 11, according […]
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By Akeem Awere In the last few weeks, there have been emotional outpours, wailings and commiserations trailing the demolition of some buildings and settlements the Lagos state government termed illegally erected structures by some real estate developers in various locations across the state. In the wake of a demolition exercise that seemed to have attracted […]
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With 76% failure rate in JAMB and 84.36% success rate in WAEC by candidates, definitely there’s a disconnect between the secondary school curriculum and JAMB syllabus /questions. Our managers of education should look into this obvious disharmony. Something must be wrong somewhere. Either the standard of education continues to drop while the quality of JAMB […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been flayed for the failure to carry out its responsibility with civility and decorum in the case of the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as well as disobeying the rule of law. Chairman of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Debo Adeniran gave […]
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