Nigeria's main opposition party has lavished praise on the peaceful conduct of elections in Ghana and the orderly transition of power. Flawed elections since the return to civil democracy in 1999 have seriously...
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Girls Primary School Enrollment Surges in Nigeria’s Northern Kano State
Most primary schools in the northern Nigerian state of Kano have seen a significant increase in girls' enrollment in recent years thanks to a community-based initiative that is helping to correct long-time gender...
NAS Press Release: THE RIBADU SAGA
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) condemns the dismissal of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Nuhu Ribadu from the Police force as unconstitutional and a flagrant...
NAS Press Release: UNENDING CRISES IN THE PLATEAU
IntroductionThe recent crisis that engulfed Jos, the Plateau State capital is another sad reminder of the fact that our dear country still has a long way to go in its quest for a peaceful, idea-centric, egalitarian and...
How politics spreads epidemics, ruins academics – By Olaokun Soyinka
WHAT sort of book is Epidemics, Academics and Politics by Prof. Idris Mohammed? The author provides answer in his introduction emphasising that this is not an autobiography. Indeed, though it contains some historical...
The Privatization and Commercialization of Higher Education in Nigeria – By Roy Chikwem
Introduction The Nigerian higher educational sector is perhaps the largest in Sub-Sahara Africa both in the number of educational institutions and the population of students. Only 57 per cent of adult Nigerians are...
Police Fire Ribadu
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has been dismissed from the police force. A statement signed by police spokesman, Akpoebi Agberebi, confirmed Ribadu’s...
Nigerian Police Deny Summary Executions Report
The Nigerian police are denying allegations by Human Rights Watch that the police and army troops carried out more than 90 summary executions in suppressing violent political and religious rioting in the city of Jos....
Ribadu did well, FG admits
The Federal Government on Wednesday, cautioned the former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on his protracted conflict with the Police Force. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo...
Soyinka rejects national merit award prize money, keeps plaque
* Says Supreme Court has wounded us * Donates money to justicesNOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday announced that he was rejecting the money that goes with the Nigerian...
Yar’Adua Honours Soyinka, Two Others With Merit Awards
Nigeria on Tuesday honoured Wole Soyinka for his achievements in the humanities, 22 years after the playwright also known as Kongi received the Nobel Prize for Literature. President Umaru Yar'Adua gave him the...
Budget 2009 is not right
There are several pitfalls in the 2009 Federal Budget. The most scandalous of this has resulted in the unwarranted haggling over inclusion of constituency projects in the Appropriation Bill. The so-called constituency...