In response to the rising insecurity and killings in Nigeria, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is set to sponsor a bill to decentralise nation’s policing system. Ekweremadu slammed the current system as “dysfunctional and unsuitable for a federal system”. He gave the indication during an interactive session with Fulbright Scholars,…
The philosophy of Nigeria education is based on the belief that education is the vehicle for effective human and national development. Ward (1883) says “education is essential motive force for progress”. He stressed that educational institutions are Centre for human betterment for the progress of society. Nations all over the world are concerned about education…
PRESS RELEASE Insecurity: More Will Die Unless We Take the Right Measures, Ekweremadu Warns …Commiserates with Plateau State The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has raised the alarm over the escalating killings and insecurity in Nigeria, warning that more lives would be clost unless the nation’s security architecture was reorganised. Reacting to…
June 12 National Honour Calls for Justice As Prof Humphrey Nwosu Was Not Recognized – By Humphrey Onyima The recent decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to honour the acclaimed winner of the 1993 general elections, Chief Moshood Abiola; and his running mate, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, with the highest honour in Nigeria, is a very welcome…
By Humphrey Onyima The member representing Awgu, Aninri, Oji River Federal Constituency and also Chairman Committee on Works in the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Toby Okechukwu has revealed that he attracted the ongoing Old Enugu – Porthacourt road passing Agbogugu, Ihe junction to Ihe, from Ihe to Amoli junction down to Owelli passing…
BY GARBA SHEHU Top opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members have been granting press interviews and addressing zonal political rallies talking about “CHANGING THE CHANGE” in next year’s general elections, without defining what exactly that means. As the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) gears up to celebrate the completion of three years of the Buhari…
By David E. Sanger and David D. Kirkpatrick For President Trump and two of the allies he values most — Israel and Saudi Arabia — the problem of the Iranian nuclear accord was not, primarily, about nuclear weapons. It was that the deal legitimized and normalized Iran’s clerical government, reopening it to the world economy…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said the Nigeria-China currency swap deal would not cover the importation of the 41 items banned in its 2015 circular on items not valid for foreign exchange. CBN’s acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, made this known in an interview with newsmen recently in Abuja. According to him,…
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Emperors are generally recognised as tyrants, despots or authoritarians. Emperors rule with the imperial decree and must be obeyed…if you love your head or have the boldness to stand up to them and get exiled. Historians have…
By Law Mefor Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has become an enigma in Nigerian politics. He has steadily risen to the enviable heights of statesmen, now more concerned about country more than politics. Ekweremadu bagged a PhD in law as a senator while many of his contemporaries pursued mundane matters and has severally…
