Tag: View Point

 In a tweet he tweeted on January 9, 2012, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, tagged Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a “zero”. Not too long after, a nasty little child who was promoted by the same El-Rufai, tweeted that Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was ‘overrated’. Jonathan-Buhari The two characters aforementioned also spouted some of the vilest […]

By  Steve Nwosu 08055001934 Everytime we talk about the anti-corruption war of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, our minds invariably go to looted funds, recovered loot, spurious bank accounts, Diezani Allison-Madueke, Sambo Dasuki, PDP campaign slush funds, etc. And we have remained so fixated on those symptoms that we have tended to overlook the real […]

  Chris Odinaka Nwedo The wide-spreading assertions that Nigeria as a nation has not made commensurate progress in appropriating herself are gradually becoming less polemical. The self-inflicted pains of the malfeasance is today more evident and disapproving.  The stunted aspiration of Nigeria as a nation is felt everywhere particularly in the disorienting dispositions of the […]

By Chris Odinaka Nwedo christonwedo@gmail.com Democratization is understood as having ‘two diverse perspectives namely: intensive and extensive perspectives. Intensive perspective involves the change in the quality of democratic experience of a given community. This is determined by the extents of voting rights, the workings of representative institutions or the presence of the culture of democracy […]

By Leo Igwe A lot has been said about the imperative of inter-religious dialogue in Nigeria and how such an initiative could foster peace and tolerance among the adherents of the different religions in the country. In fact, it was in pursuant to this very noble objective that, some years ago, the Nigeria Inter-religious Council […]

By Chris Odinaka Nwedo christonwedo@gmail.com Democracy entails a popular organisation of culture, economy, politics and education, so much so that the citizens satisfactorily participate in all discussions affecting them directly or through their representatives. It demands, among other things justice and fairness, ‘a jealously guarded bills of rights, recognition and even deliberate encouragement of plurality […]

 June 3, 2018  By Douglas Anele  As far as I am concerned, two events in the month of May have had significant impact in the history of post-independent Nigeria. The first one, which ranks as one of the profoundest announcements ever made by a Nigerian, is the declaration of independence of the eastern region from […]