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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By Austin Isikhuemen Edo gubernatorial election is scheduled for September 2024. The umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), blew the whistle to mark the take-off of formal campaigning by the political parties and their candidates on 24th April 2024. Very soon we will begin to see the candidates on soapboxes throwing light on their […]
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Life after the expiry of gubernatorial immunity in Kogi By Austin Isikhuemen This morning, following the hide and seek game between Yahaya Bello and the EFCC that occupied all media platforms yesterday, I read this stanza of a poem titled ‘For It Is A Human Number’ by Jude Herrick. It had popped up when I […]
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Anthony Kila previews the upcoming play produced by The Duke of Shomolu Productions and argues that the play is about a people not a man. Kashimawo is the name of a new play in town that I invite us to think about today. Town here is Lagos, Nigeria. Though I cannot guarantee a positive response, […]
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By Austin Isikhuemen auxtynisi@yahoo.com During the Shehu Shagari Presidency some Nigerian Army soldiers were killed in cold blood in the sea by soldiers that were later identified as belonging to Equatorial Guinea. The outrage in Nigeria was palpable and the call for a revenge overrun of the tiny banana republic then led by Marcias Nguema, […]
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Anthony Kila previews the upcoming National Dialogue themed “Nigeria’s Constitutional Future” in Honour of Late Nwabueze convened by a group of eminent Nigerians led by Chief Emeka Anyaoku. Lagos is set host what might turn out to be a historic event about Nigeria’s constitutional future if all goes according to plan. The event is slated […]
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By JESUTEGA ONOKPASA I recently received a report from a learned colleague that Dangote cement plants are currently producing at below or no more than 20 percent capacity and that this is not due to any legitimate constraints but for the purpose of creating artificial scarcity in order to increase prices. I am not in […]
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