IntroductionThere are a number of theories rivaling each other in their attempts to explain the migratory origin of the Igbo. The most popular one seems to be the account that the Igbo migrated from Israel and this is why they are often referred to as the Jews of Africa. While scholars promoting this view generally…
PRELUDEDESIRE is the most powerful force in the world. It is the difference between failure and success and the one thing that separates heroes from cowards. Bait a downtrodden with the right object of his DESIRE and watch him rise as high as the highest heavens. Entice a coward with his heart’s throb and open…
By Olu Fasan JUST a day after the collapse of the Afghanistan government, hitherto propped up by the United States and its allies, President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an article in the Financial Times pleading with the West to help fight militancy in Africa. In the article, titled: “Africa needs more than US military aid to…
Some Federal Government retirees are spending years after retirement not being able to access their pensions for reasons they did not cause. This is not because the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which they transited to from the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS), is not working, but because of government’s failure to implement the Retirement Benefits Bond…
President Muhammadu Buhari is in the process of declaring a state of emergency across the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Peoples Gazette can report based on a secret memo and official accounts, as the administration scrambles to waggle its way out of acute insecurity and the encumbrances of constitutional provisions. Attorney-General Abubakar Malami has already written…
A review of the facts of how the cases played out in court reveals why the two senators’ similar journeys as sureties for high-profile defendants took them to different destinations. By Ade Adesomoju Ali Ndume, the Borno South senator, knew he had got into trouble after Abdulrasheed Maina, the man he stood surety for, jumped bail….
Dr Paul Amen-Aifuwa in his work titled, “The Nigerian Leadership Can Make It” reviewed by Humphrey Onyima in 2014, has this to say. Excerpt: As the state’s Craft of the Nigerian statehood entangles with her centenary landmark, mixed feelings are rife on the part of various schools of thoughts with the deep concerns and reminiscences…
