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Nigerian Universities And Unhelpful Policies
Monday, March 12, 2012
Great expectations are usually piled on our universities as very essential intellectual factories for the production of reliable human resources for achieving our lofty dreams and aspirations as a people. That is what it should be. Every year, the universities are expected to give the country qualit ...
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The Return of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Saturday, January 28, 2012
When President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finance Minister and also named her the Coordinating Minister of the Economy CME, I was greatly surprised that several Nigerians appeared to share the presidents rather lofty expectations that she was coming with fresh, w ... |
How To Be A Nigerian Governor
Sunday, April 17, 2011
It is quite possible that before now not many people have taken time to seriously consider it, but there is no doubt that governing a state in Nigeria has over the years been reduced to one of the most unduly simplified jobs in town, which does not even require an average intelligence or any special ... |
Wanted: President Gaddafi Of Nigeria
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
This is an example of a country that has fallen down; it has collapsed. This house has fallen Prof Chinua AchebeA very offensive and utterly depressing scenario thrown up by the raging storm in North Africa is the unedifying sight of several Nigerian rulers thumbing their noses at the sit-t ... |
Desperate Women And Their Obscene Fashion
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Nothing best underscores the raw, primitive desperation clearly gripping and saturating the tender hearts of countless ladies today than the brutal conventionalisation obscene fashion seems to have rudely appropriated in society. A desperate person is always the easiest victim of primitive emoti ... |
How I Joined The Nigerian Ruling (Eating) Class (A Rejoinder)
Friday, December 31, 2010
Dear Ugochukwu, I thoroughly enjoyed myself reading the piece you published last week, captioned, How I Became A Prominent Lady, written by one of the greatest and most patriotic daughters of our great nation, a highly placed and well-respected lady who, incidentally, is a very close associ ... |
Why Looting May Not Stop In Nigeria
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Nigerian state thrives on a very a solid foundation and enduring, pervasive culture of very crude selfishness. Maybe, selfishness is not the most appropriate word to convey the exact meaning I have in mind. But there is this consuming desire and deep craving by the average Nigerian to always h ... |
Who Needs Bankole's House?
Sunday, August 22, 2010
In 2007, as the nation grappled with the lingering crises thrown up by the N628 million-contract scandal involving the leadership of the House of Representatives, Vanguard newspaper August 29, 2007 published an interview granted it by Mr. Dino Melaye who was then Chairman, House Committee on Infor ... |
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