There are very few young Nigerians who will not jump at an opportunity to relocate to another country. Although the USA, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Australia might be preferred destinations, young people just want to get out of Nigeria and don’t really care where. In the minds of most, there could hardly be a
On March 21, 137 civilians were killed in localities near Niger’s border with Mali, in what the Niger Government described as attacks perpetrated by “armed bandits”. Sadly, the deadly attacks were not a standalone incident or an anomaly. Since January, four separate attacks by armed groups left at least 300 people dead in the land-locked
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. The Presidency says Isa Pantami has repented of his jihadist utterances supporting Bin Laden, the Taliban, Boko Haram and the mass murder of people. It is
Early into Ayade’s Government, it was the EFCC they began with. In 2015, agents of Ayade administration made all kinds of wild allegations against former Director of the Cross River State Internal Revenue Service, Dr. Peter Oti. Operatives were sent from the then zonal office of the EFCC in Port Harcourt to bundle Oti from
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. That people are on radio and social media calling that travesty that happened on Saturday in Rivers State an election, shocks me. As expected, the PDP
Last week, precisely 27 March 2021, Professor Florence Obi, the Vice Chancellor of UNICAL, gave a very good account of her leadership after holding a very beautiful convocation ceremony. On the occasion, the VC revealed that, 22 graduands bagged first class honors in their various fields out of the 4,955 total graduands. Among these graduands,
1. It is to my mind a very good initiative if well managed. It sure holds enormous potentials for revenue generation, employment creation, local capacity -building, foreign investment attraction and global marketing of brand Cross River State. 2. Apart from coffee export, leather works and tourism, Ethiopia as a country thrives mainly on its airline
A legislative constituency project is any project that is conceived, designed or executed within a legislative constituency with the collaboration, input or influence of the legislator(s) representing that particular constituency in the legislature. Such projects are however funded from public money. At the dawn of the Fourth Republic in Nigeria, there was the quest by