Nigeria

October 2015 makes it three years since four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria were, on allegations of mobile phone and computer theft, brutally beaten and set ablaze in a low-income community plagued by unresolved crimes.

“It is our prayer that the people and the government of Austria will show humaneness and magnanimity and return to us some of these objects which found their way to your country.” -The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Erediauwa. [1]

As we celebrate our 55th Independence Day Anniversary of our dear country, Nigeria, on this day, 1 October 2015, I congratulate you all fellow Nigerians, brothers, sisters and friends of our dear country!

LAGOS, NIGERIA, September 14, 2015 -- Friends of the Earth Nigeria / Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEN) has demanded a Nigerian Federal Government probe into of explosions caused by Nigerian Agip Oil Company [NAOC] operations in several communities in Bayelsa State where the company has facil

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has just released its May/June school-based senior secondary certificate examination (SSCE) results. From the breakdown, less than one-third of the candidates would be eligible for university admission.

This piece is not about former President Goodluck Jonathan, but it is important to focus on him to help us understand our current predicament.

The Punch Newspaper posted a report on its website on 23 July regarding a protest of admission seekers and their parents at the premises of the University of Lagos.

But for the pressure from some Western countries, led by America, the recently sacked army chiefs in Nigeria, prompted by their commander in chief, would have derailed the election that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power in March.

The Service Chiefs would not be forgotten for superintending over a State Army that was almost embarrassingly humiliated by the Boko Haram insurgents in spite of having unfettered access to humongous budgetary allocations.

Wind the critically slurred legislative tape back to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. It began sometime in 1999, you’d recall.