Mr. Achebe’s body arrived at Abuja without much of the pageantry earlier envisaged.
Hundreds of people were at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
Both arms of the National Assembly on Tuesday ratified the emergency rule imposed on three northern sates of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa with the two chambers...
As celebrated author, Chinua Achebe’s final burial rites hold this week, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in this exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria’s government of human rights...Nigeria has announced it will release a number of Boko Haram members, including all women, in what it called a peace bid as its military waged operation...Nigeria’s poverty rate should be falling faster given its economic growth this decade, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said...
About 120 militant Islamists have been arrested in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, as they were organising the burial of a commander, an army...Nigeria’s military is chasing Islamist fighters as they flee to the borders of Chad and Niger from the northeast, where President Goodluck Jonathan has...
A WAR of words is now raging between two frontline Ijaw sons, Prof. Tam David-West and Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, over comments on President Goodluck...Jonathan and petroleum subsidies
It is disturbing that President Goodluck Jonathan is persisting with an ill-advised policy of removing so-called petroleum subsidies.
It’s time Nigerian workers, professionals, students and other groups came together to send a clear message to Mr. Jonathan. That message is that the Jonathan administration cannot – and should not – save money by deepening the already intolerable misery of the Nigerian populace. If Mr. Jonathan wishes to slash the cost of running the government, there are many other areas he should look at. He should, for one, initiate a sharp review of the huge remuneration that goes to public officials, from the president all the way to local government councilors. Nigeria is a failed nation, but the government officials who can’t seem to figure out any significant solutions to the malaise of the country are obscenely overpaid.
Mr. Jonathan should push to put an end the scandal that’s called security votes. Yes, that’s how to demonstrate seriousness about husbanding the nation’s scarce resources. It doesn’t make sense that the presidency and governors collect hundreds of millions of naira month, but never account for the ostensible “security” areas that gulp the cash.
In addition, the country’s labor unions and others should challenge the Jonathan administration to pursue seriously the fight against corruption. Officials convicted of plundering public resources should be stripped of their loot. And it should be done in a transparent way, with the recovered funds paid into an account devoted to the alleviation of crushing poverty in the country. It’s immoral to impose more burdens on long-suffering Nigerians, while government officials continue to bask in opulence.
Okey ndibe Writes
