Author: Emmanuel Onwubiko

BLAME GOVERNMENT FOR BRIBE-FOR-JOB IN NIGERIA

Saturday, May 18, 2013
Does anyone still remembers how recruitment officials from the Nigerian Army randomly visited primary and junior secondary schools in the early 1980s in search of eligible Nigerian youth to be lured into enlisting to serve Nigeria in the Nigerian Army? I, for one, will not forget in a hurry how of ...

Growing 'Toiletization' Of Nigerian Politics

Friday, May 17, 2013
Two international callers, one from the United states of America and the second from the United Kingdom, who have had sufficient patience to follow through the advocacy activities of the human rights platform that I currently works for-HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA successful ...

Lunatics In Nigerian Prisons

Friday, May 17, 2013
Uju Agomoh, the executive Director of one of Nigerias best known credible civil society organizations - Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action PRAWA has done a lot of advocacy activities around the issues of the illegality of prolonged detention of mentally challenged persons in the heavily ...

Nasarawa As Killing Field Of Police

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Nigeria in the last three years has been in the news for the very ugly reason of the unprecedented violence that have occurred in different parts of the country but with specific dominance in the Northern parts of Nigeria.The latest of such violent scenarios was the Tuesday May 7th 2013 mass mur ...

ON ROCHAS, IMO STATE AND GOVERNANCE

Monday, May 13, 2013
Putting apart petty politics, it is rational to state that May 29th 2011 was a political turning point following the defeat for a long time of an incumbent governor Chief Ikedi Ohakim who desperately sought to win a re-election from the Imo State electorate. On that historic day, majority of I ...

NIGERIA: SENSE AND NONSENSE OF NEW AVIATION RULE

Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Stella Odua, the self -styled Princess from Anambra state is Nigerias minister of Aviation. She gained her appointment from President Good luck Jonathan soon after her political platform-the Peoples Democratic Party emerged victorious from the bitterly contested Presidential election of April ...

Senator Ekweremadu's Paliamentary Diplomacy

Monday, May 06, 2013
I have watched with considerable and intense interest, the international engagements of several high profile Federal and state government officials from Nigeria and I have often wondered the rationale for some of these foreign trips with specific reference to the several foreign trips embarked upon ...

Constitution Review And Land Swap

Monday, April 29, 2013
Emeka Ihedioha, the urbane looking gentleman politician from a humble but deeply religious Mbaise, Imo State background has caved a unique niche for himself as one young patriotic Nigerian that believes in using his innate talents to serve the public good of Nigeria and the citizenry. The Dep ...

Jonathan's Fangs On Amaechi And Verdict Of History

Monday, April 29, 2013
Few hours back, I stumbled on a publication by a very respected online medium of excerpts of what is said to be Nigerian governments white paper on the origin of the ongoing deadly terrorism spearheaded by the armed Islamic extremists known in popular Hausa parlance as Boko Haram wh ...

MASSOB AND NIGERIA'S JUDICIAL ANARCHY

Sunday, April 21, 2013
Nigeria, an amalgam of several hundreds of ethnic nationalities with diverse cultural, religious and cultural affinities is indeed an interesting irony. Political historians often ascribe three dominant ethnic nationalities as the foremost among the hundreds of others just as the three are lis ...

HARD TIMES FOR MEDIA FREEDOM

Monday, April 15, 2013
A major relic of the colonial era in Nigeria was the use of some draconian statutes to suppress press freedom and freedom of expression basically because of the inherent power of the media of mass communication to serve as effective tool for mass mobilization against the colonialists seen largely as ...

Presidential Directive: Stop Harassing Leadership—HURIWA Tells FG

Monday, April 08, 2013
Following reported siege by armed police operatives and the consequent invitation for interrogation of three reporters of Leadership Newspaper group by the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters over the story carried by the newspaper on a purported Presidential directive to the Independent National Elec ...

For Two Cows, Twenty Persons Are Killed!

Monday, April 08, 2013
Nigeria has consistently witnessed inter-ethnic conflicts that have resulted in the wanton killings of innocent persons especially in Northern Nigeria. But the recent episode in Ataka village, Kaura local government council in Southern Kaduna State in which not less than 20 persons were needle ...
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