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Remaking Nigeria, Sixty Years After

By Ele Ifah Sunday January 5, 2021 163 0

By Chido Onumah “…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices   “A country is as good […]Continue Reading

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Here is Bishop Kukah’s misinterpreted 2020 Christmas Day message

By Theophilus Abbah December 29, 2020 221 0

A Nation in Search of Vindication: Another Christmas with Dark Clouds of Death:   Let me paraphrase the holy prophet Isaiah who said: “For Jerusalem (Nigeria’s sake), I will not be silent until her vindication shines forth like the dawn…..No more shall people call you forsaken, or your land desolate, but you shall be called […]Continue Reading

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How Do I Write A Tribute For Sam Nda-Isaiah?

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 14, 2020 180 0

It was a short post from Isiaq Ajibola, former COO of Media Trust, on the WhatsApp platform of the Northern Media Forum, that drew attention to the passing of Sam Nda-Isaiah, just a few minutes past midnight, today, Saturday, 12th December 2020. To say that I was stunned, was to understate my emotions! I placed […]Continue Reading

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Gratuities: Zulum approves N12b to clear 4,862 unpaid retirees

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 8, 2020 163 0

… Presents cheques to retirees  … N3b earlier released in 2019  Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday announced the release of N12 billion to clear gratuities owed 4,862 retirees who left the state and local government civil service from 2013 to 2017. Before today’s, Zulum had released N3 billion in June and September […]Continue Reading

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Lesson from North Korea: Invent rather than imitate

By Ele Ifah Sunday December 2, 2020 169 0

In the world, imitation became a trend. If there is one country that tends towards invention, not imitation, it is precisely the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, something that contrasts with this reality. A few years ago, Pyongyang hosted an exhibition of machinery and equipment, which displayed an 80 hp tractor, a 115 hp diesel […]Continue Reading

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A Systemic Persecution of Christians and the Church in Northern Nigeria: The Church’s Response

By Ele Ifah Sunday November 24, 2020 233 Post a comment

By Fr. Williams Kaura Abba Introduction The Wall Street Journal published an article in December 2019 wherein Bernard-Henri Levy, a French Philosopher, filmmaker, journalist, and public intellectual described a trip he made to Nigeria during which he privately investigated Fulani attacks on Christians. Levy recounts thus:   A slow-motion war is underway in Africa’s Continue Reading

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A Case For 2020 Electoral Act

By Ele Ifah Sunday November 7, 2020 142 0

By Uche Ugboajah The last time an amendment was made to the laws governing elections in Nigeria was in the year 2010. That is clearly ten years ago, when the Electoral Act was amended. From that period up until now, several issues and problems arising from the conduct of elections make an amendment of the […]Continue Reading

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Study Notes on Nigeria’s Youth Revolt

By Ele Ifah Sunday November 7, 2020 149 0

By Edwin Madunagu  What actually happened in Nigeria, from October 8, 2020 to the last week of that month? Did we see a protest, a revolt, an uprising, a rebellion, a nihilist – anarchist self-expression, an insurrection or a revolution? But why have I decided to put “revolution” last? Is it because it is the […]Continue Reading

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Tussle for Attah of Igala – a Return to Sanity

By Ele Ifah Sunday November 3, 2020 156 0

Time Tested Tradition. Notwithstanding the glory, reverence and extreme privilege bordering on deification that comes with ascending the throne of the Attah Igala, the contest for the stool has over time been devoid of the desperate, acrimonious, and cutthroat competition that is often associated with the tussle for royal stools in other lands. The reason […]Continue Reading

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Economic Statecraft, by Obadiah Mailafia

By Ele Ifah Sunday October 29, 2020 149 0

By Obadiah Mailafia In terms of financial wizardry and sheer genius in economic statecraft, the only master I bow to is the legendary sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. I am no cultist and I do not subscribe to the Awo cult. But I believe he was an extraordinary statesman and an economic genius to boot. Former […]Continue Reading

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INEC Job and the Risk Element

By Ele Ifah Sunday October 19, 2020 168 0

By Eric Teniola As expected the tenure of Professor Mahmood Yakubu (58) as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission ends on Monday, November 9. Then came the announcement by Professor Yakubu that the presidential election will hold February 18, 2023, that is eight hundred and eighty-five days away. It is the first time Nigerians […]Continue Reading

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Oladayo Olaide: Hearty Cheers To A Comrade Who Stayed In Touch

By Ele Ifah Sunday October 14, 2020 219 0

By Dr. Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi My brother and colleague Mr. Oladayo Olaide adds another year today to his age. The joyous occasion presents an opportunity to embark on an excursion down memory lane. My bond of comradeship with the celebrant dates back to the late 1990s. It was a time of turbulence all over Nigeria; […]Continue Reading