It’s a question many people have asked in passing, sometimes with curiosity, sometimes with confusion: Why doesn’t the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) offer Chemical Engineering? The answer isn’t just a matter of curriculum or policy—it’s a story buried in the ashes of a war that changed everything. Before the Nigerian Civil War, UNN had…
As Nigerians there are certain qoutes and statements that we must enshrine and entrench in our spirits, minds and souls and that we must never forget if we really want to know where we are coming from, where we are today and where we will be tomorrow. Permit me to begin this contribution with a…
“I was returning from one of such trips to a prominent Emir one afternoon when I heard from my car radio Chief Abiola calling on General Abacha to come and ease Chief Shonekan as he eased out Babangida, I was shocked. I called Chief Abiola and asked for an explanation of what I had just…
A 33-year-old Nnamdi Azikiwe in his office as the founder editor of the West African Pilot newspaper, 1937. Today we have 33 years old men who will cut off and sell their mother’s left breast to make money so they can pay a jobless person to do Oke Ite for them. See, young Nnamdi Azikiwe…
He Wrote: “For instance, the head of the plotters, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, was only Igbo in name. Born and raised in Kaduna, his immigrant parents were from Okpanam in today’s Delta state, which, in 1966, was in the old mid-western region. Nzeogwu spoke fluent Hausa and was as ‘Hausa’ as any! He and his original…
He Wrote: “For instance, the head of the plotters, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, was only Igbo in name. Born and raised in Kaduna, his immigrant parents were from Okpanam in today’s Delta state, which, in 1966, was in the old mid-western region. Nzeogwu spoke fluent Hausa and was as ‘Hausa’ as any! He and his original…
For years, Peter Obi has been romancing Professor Wole Soyinka and celebrating him on his birthdays. But when Mr Soyinka turned ninety on Saturday, July 13, 2024, Mr. Obi ignored him completely. Why? Because on Thursday, September 14, 2023, Mr. Soyinka had exposed him as an ethnic bigot who directly controls his Obidient hordes and…
Paris (AFP) – Two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte once intended to use to kill himself were sold in France on Sunday for 1.69 million euros ($1.8 million), the auction house said, with the government insisting that they stay in the country as national treasures. The French government insisted that the pistols remain in France as…
The CEO of Leadership SCORECARD Magazine, Humphrey Onyima with his team paid a surprise visit to His Excellency, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar GCFR, former Nigerian Military Head of State, today 13th June, at the hilltop Minna, Niger State, in celebration with the General on his birthday anniversary @82. Humphrey Onyima, on behalf of the Leadership Scorecard…
By Law Mefor A few days ago, Ndigbo came under fire from Professor Usman Yusuf, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), for their perceived lack of interest in the ongoing nationally spreading hunger protests and strikes. He said: “I honestly don’t know why the South East is quiet, uncharacteristically quiet….
