FUTO 4: Drug Abuse and Nigerian Youths
FB photo By Jerome-Mario Utomi I remember with nostalgia how participants at a focused group discussion held recently in Lagos bemoaned the infestation of our nation by social problems...
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FB photo By Gabriel Omoniyi Introduction The judiciary as the third arm of the government and a party to the checkmating process of government in Nigeria and other democratic institutions in...
View ArticleChibok Girls: Symbol of a nation
Michael Fleshman photo By Prince Charles Dickson Boko Haram insurgents invaded a village at Chibok, Borno State, on Sunday last week, wreaking havoc, exactly five years into the abduction of 276...
View ArticleNigeria: One more hurdle before Ganduje
FB photo By Abdulyassar Abdulhamid Now political campaigns and elections are over. The winner has been declared and the loser has chosen a court option to seek redress. I cannot see anything new...
View ArticleElections in Nigeria: Then, Now and the Future
CS photo By Jerome-Mario Utomi Looking at the strength with which foreign observers in recent weeks raised strong voices against uncivil antics that characterized the just concluded elections;...
View ArticleNigeria: Dissecting Gbajabiamila and the quest for Speakership
FB photo By Abba Dukawa One thing that one cannot be denied about Femi Gbajabiamila’s qualities of representation is that he has always been firm in the line of justice and his commitment to his...
View ArticleNigeria: Children and women raped and abused in prison
AI photo By Amnesty International An investigation by human rights NGO Amnesty International has exposed sexual violence against children and women by security agents and inmates at two...
View ArticleNigeria: May Day and the travails of workers
Jeremy Weate photo By Abdulyassar Abdulhamid Last Saturday, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Kano State Chapter, launched a multi-million movie “Hakki (The Right)” produced in collaboration with...
View ArticleNigeria: Before all of us go abroad
FB photo By Prince Charles Dickson When you kick your calabash carelessly in the presence of neighbors, in your absence they will break it without a blink… “The identity of the Nigerian lady...
View ArticleNigeria: Unemployment and the Economy
FB photo By Jerome-Mario Utomi Each time I question some of the theories advanced by successive administrations as reasons for unemployment rate in Nigeria, one thing seems to standout. Aside...
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