The president of the federal republic of Nigeria Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who became apparently concern and worried over the unending spate of violent and deadly insurgencies in North eastern Nigeria being perpetrated by Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday the 14th of May 2013 in a nation-wide broadcast declared a state of emergency in three […]

I never had the intention of developing a discourse on this topic but it has become of utmost necessity and urgent importance given the manifestation of heart irking happenings in our society nowadays. I wouldn’t, have thought of writing this piece if Nigeria is perfectly sailing smoothly in the ocean of peace and harmony towards […]

Cring! Cring! Cring! #phone rings# “Hello! Chief Bolingo, good morning” “Morning my man, are you still in bed?” “Yes Chief, just had a discussion with my wife….” “Oh! I see….bedroom talk abi? Okay, that aside, I hope you have not forgotten my aspiration for the seat of the president of this country” “Nooo….I have not, […]

It is neither an understatement nor a figment of my imagination to assert emphatically that Nigeria is a rich country but indisputably poor. The aforesaid sounds ironical and tends to provoke rhetorical question as to why Nigeria is rich but apparently poor. At this juncture, I make bold to state without any fear of contradiction […]

On Monday, July 8, 2013, Nigerians received news of the highly anticipated ceasefire by Boko Haram with a high sense of regard and mixed feelings. Most people questioned the sincerity of the sect while others cast their doubts on the capacity of the Federal Government amnesty committee to actually sauce out something meaningful out of […]

Basically, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers a great deal. The two gargantuan elephants in this context are the Federal government and the Academic staff Union of Universities . They have both been enmeshed in the murky waters of a seemingly endless fight which has become a great setback for Nigeria’s education sub-sector.No one […]