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ASUU Strike, Nyesom Nwike and FG’s Dementia by Nkannebe Raymond
Just in case Mr. President and his cortege of advisers or “miss- advisers” have quickly forgotten as they are wont to, let us give them the benefit of doubt by reminding them or bringing them back...
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[Opinion] The Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Interjection By Raymond Nkannebe
During the last Media chat earlier this year when Mr. President spoke to Nigerians on a number of front burner issues, it was to my quagmire that I discovered he played down corruption as one of the...
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[Opinion] A Passionate Letter to Nigeria by Nkannebe Raymond
Dear Nigeria, In this ‘season’ of letters, in these days where missives have been flying left, right and center. from those coming from people who could hardly pass as the conscience of society, to...
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[Opinion] Hello Nigerian Students: Just Before We Return Back to School by...
I don’t know whether I should start this treatise by congratulating the Army of Nigerian students for what we have collectively waited for-An end to the protracted ASUU strike, which at a point,...
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Nigerian Student Forum (ASUU PROTESTS) Press Release
PRESS RELEASE! PRESS RELEASE!! PRESS RELEASE!!! BEING PRESS RELEASE ISSUED WITH REGARDS TO THE JUST CONCLUDED 5 MONTHS ASUU STRIKE. Monday, 23rd December 2013. 1. INTRODUCTION. Fellow Nigerian...
View ArticleAt Last, UniMaid Set To Resume For The 2013/2014 Acedemic Session
Information just reaching us has it that the authorities of the University of Maiduguri, Borno state, has finally made public the calendar for dates and events for the much awaited 2013/2014 academic...
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Dear Mr. President, we’ve had Enough of this ‘Fresh Air’. [An Open letter] By...
“Turning and turning in this widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the land. The blood doomed tide is loosed, and...
View ArticleThe 468 Northern Detainees and The Disturbing Utterances Of JNI, Dangiwa and...
It was with shock waves that tunning my Kchibo transistor radio last wednesday morning to listen to the usual Radio Nigeria Network news, only to receive the news from the headlines read out by Nura...
View ArticleJUSTICE CHUKWUDIFU AKUNNE OPUTA(1918-2014) by Raymond Nkannebe
Yesterday, the remains of one of Nigeria’s most distinguished legal personalities, the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa was finally interned at his country home of Oguta, in Imo state amidst pomp and...
View ArticleThe Opposition Nigeria Needs by Nkannebe Raymond
I was among the many Nigerians who literally took to the streets in celebration of the successful coalition of the three legacy parties namely, All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), Congress For...
View ArticleThe Demand For State Creation and Delegates Illogic at The CONFAB by Raymond...
I was everything but flabbergasted, when last week, delegates at the Ongoing Talk shop to ostensibly reposition the basis of the continuity of the nation, unanimously moved the motion for the creation...
View ArticleEFCC’s Double Standard in Taraba and Accountant Joel Lenbang’s travails by...
The arrest and arraignment of Taraba state’s Accountant General, Joel Lenbang, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised more dust than it has settled them. It has also...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts on Admiral Murtala Nyako’s Impeachment by Nkannebe Raymond
The ‘greatest’ news, although one that didn’t come as a surprise to many, especially members of the ruling PDP last week, was the Impeachment of retired real vice Admiral Murtala Nyako-the governor of...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Chibok Girls by Nkannebe Raymond
It is with a heart filled with empathy and eyes soaked with tears that I write this missive to you even though I cannot guarantee that anyone of you would come across it especially the ‘unlucky’ ones...
View ArticleThe Terror Victims Support Fund and the Magnanimity of Nigerian ‘Well-to-Dos’...
You can scorn Nigerians for everything you may, you may put them in your bad books for Corruption, the obsession to cut corners, sleaze, Crude-Oil theft and all sort of wrongs you can come up with, but...
View ArticleEthnicity and the Leadership Question by Nkannebe Raymond
At one point in time in the socio-political voyage of a community of people, the responsibility of producing leaders to spearhead the activities of the general community for a constitutional duration...
View Article[OPINION] NANS And Student Unionism In Nigeria: A Contemporary Contradiction...
“The blind leading the blind is not so bad, what is more jarring is the blind leading the sighted” I had intended dedicating this column to setting the final agenda for the presidential candidates of...
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[OPINION] Will Jonathan’s Goodluck Avail Him This Time? By Nkannebe Raymond
No matter how philosophers and ancient thinkers would want us to belittle the terms “luck”, “fate”, “fortune” or “providence” in human existence, what remains as a fact is that this terms, have huge...
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[OPINION] Obasanjo’s Last ‘Dance’ Of Shame By Raymond Nkannebe
“Between age and Maturity is but a great chasm”-Author Ever since he wrote the controversial letter late 2013, to president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan that literally sent tongues of fire dropping on the...
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Belated Open Letter To A ‘Tired’ President By Nkannebe Raymond
Presidential greetings your excellency, I’m sure by now, you must be getting used to your new residence and also adapting quickly to your new routines as the leader, some say supreme leader of...
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[OPINION] MAIDUGURI – From Home Of Peace To Pieces By Raymond Nkannebe
Barely a decade ago, it was a city synonymous with hospitality. Its people were known for their tolerance and forbearance to live with their neighbors that dot its borders. As a state sharing a common...
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[OPINION] Thoughts On The Buhari American Jamboree By Raymond Nkannebe
Fellow Nigerians, by the time you would be reading this, our president, Muhammadu Buhari, would have been one day old in the state that prides itself for freedom, the United States of America together...
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Observations From The Buhari-American “Holiday” By Nkannebe Raymond.
Last week, the political scene almost burst at the seams as it simmered with commentary on President Muhammadu Buhari’s working visit (some said holiday) to the United States of America with a large...
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[OPINION] The Senate ‘Armistice’: We Are The Losers By Raymond Nkannebe
Fellow Nigerians, last week Tuesday, something terrible happened while we watched. Something close to an abomination if not more, befell us. A friend of mine called it an ‘anathema’, you could as well...
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[OPINION] In Search Of The Nigerian Dream By Raymond Nkannebe
Every American knows there is an American Dream. Party affiliations are made along this dream. At every given opportunity, the American presidents remind the people of the American Dream. The dream is...
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[OPINION] Before We Crucify Kukah And His Peace Committee By Nkannebe Raymond
Renowned cleric, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah is in the eye of the storm. He happens to be in the news for the “wrong” reason in a long time, if not for the first time together with members of the...
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[OPINION] Once Upon A Time In The Animal Kingdom Of ‘Niagra’ By Nkannebe Raymond
Once upon a time in the Animal Kingdom of Niagra, the animals lived together and loved one another dearly. They would cook together and eat together their meals however good or badly cooked by the...
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[OPINION] PDP’s “Rebirth” And Okupe’s Prognosis By Nkannebe Raymond
The other day our man Dr. Doyin Okupe, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President GEJ and a hardline critic of PMB and his APC in the period leading to the just concluded...
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[OPINION] 100 Days Of The Buhari Presidency: Wasted Days? By Nkannebe Raymond
Last Saturday, September 5, 2015, it was exactly one hundred days of the Buhari presidency. It would be remembered that the retired major general was inaugurated as the 5th democratically elected...
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Sarakigate And The Poverty Of ‘Moral Leadership’ In Nigeria By Nkannebe Raymond
The name, Richard Nixon is one that resonates with any serious student of history or an adept observer or follower of the international political scene; more precisely, American politics. Well, for...
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Nigeria @55: The Unending Search For ‘National Rebirth’ By Raymond Nkannebe
“…The general feeling in the air as independence approached was extraordinary like the building anticipation of relief of torrential rains after a season of scorching hot harmatan winds and bush...
View ArticleHow Much Longer before GSM Service is restored in Maiduguri, Borno State? By...
We live in a clime where every act is deemed justifiable once it is hinged on either Mother-Religion or security. Perhaps that is why a senator could marry a toddler and be celebrated in some quarters...
View ArticleAnambra’s Gubernatorial ‘Madness’ By Nkannebe Raymond
When I travelled to my Home state of Anambra some 2 months ago, I was startled at the level of preparation and permutation for the forthcoming Nov. 16 gubernatorial elections. As we alighted from the...
View ArticleTo These Ones Gone Before Us-Tribute To Shizzy, Halima And D2 By Nkannebe...
‘A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies’- Gustave Flaubert As the previous day gave birth to a new break of dawn, every other thing Fell in place; it was September 29th, 2012, the day the...
View ArticleIndependence Anniversary: Chronicles of a Tottering Nation at 53! By Nkannebe...
I was yet to be born. In fact the woman that would later bore me was still a baby of just about two years and still held under the clutches of the Freudian psychoanalytic theory when our first...
View ArticleNdigbo “Deportation” and Babatunde Fashola’s “Mea Culpa” By Nkannebe Raymond
“Courageous leaders don’t make excuses; they apologize”- Mahatma Gandhi I am yet to find the appropriate word from my vocabulary bank to describe Governor Babatunde Raji Fashol’s recent tender of...
View ArticleThe Boko Haram Imbroglio: The Role of the Muslim Ummah By Raymond Nkannebe
I have never had moments of doubts in my mind whenever I make the assertion that the very word Faith, or if you like- Religion, has caused humanity the greatest problem it is today forced to condone...
View ArticleStrike: ASUU, The Time To “Call-Off” Is Now By Nkannebe Raymond
I have no problem with Unionism. Perhaps I should say that any right thinking person should and ought not to be exasperated by an active and fair unionism. If anything, it demands our collective...
View Article[Opinion] Bringing The Ongoing ASUU Strike To An End; The Indispensable Role...
It is now so glaring that the lingering ASUU strike has refused for reasons one cannot comprehend, to abate. The more we cast our hopes to a lasting solution in the shortest time, the more the problem...
View Article[Opinion] Chris Ngige: A “Good Man” in a “Wrong” Party by Nkannebe Raymond
In my earlier article on this same subject of the forthcoming Anambra gubernatorial poll titled, “Anambra Gubernatorial Madness”, I had lucidly brought before the eyes of readers of this column, the...
View ArticleAnambra Guber and INEC’s Unpardonable Consistent Inconsistency by Nkannebe...
I would be indisposed to engage in any argument whatsoever with anyone who contends that Karma may have gotten the best of us in our electoral strides since after General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida...
View Article8 Things we learnt from Anambra Botched polls by Nkannebe Raymond
The long anticipated Anambra state gubernatorial election has come and gone at least as far as this writer is concerned. I refuse to be among those inundated by the “Independent” National Electoral...
View ArticlePostponed Edo Polls; Vintage Voice of Jacob and the Hand of Esau by Nkannebe...
Fellow Nigerians, it appears not too many of us seem to appreciate the degree of political fraud that was pulled off last week by the (mis)ruling party in Edo state− hence, the seeming cold acceptance...
View ArticleNational Restructuring and the Ambivalence of a Nation by Raymond Nkannebe
You will agree with us that since the early 80s, nothing has formed the subject of our national debates and engagements more than the chequered (mis) fortune of the word ‘Restructuring’. It has been...
View ArticleJames Faleke’s Tortuous Dance with Providence by Raymond Nkannebe
Whatever your political persuasion or misgivings about him, truth is: Mr. James Faleke deserves our pity. But he also deserves our praise. Pity, because of the chain of circumstances that brought him...
View ArticleTaming the Excesses of PMB’s Gestapo Police; The Urgency of Now By Raymond...
One of the major ideals that recommend democracy as a conventional system of government is the principle of Rule of Law as one of its cardinal pillars. British jurist and constitutional theorist, A.V....
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On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; “Feminism” taken too Far? By Raymond Nkannebe
For starters, I am a huge fan of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She is intelligent, she is beautiful (although not in the context of our slay queens yet to discover themselves), she exudes a certain aura...
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2019 Polls and the limits of the PVC
A recurring feature of Nigeria’s electoral history is one of widespread irregularities, manipulation of election results, compromise of electoral staff, use of federal or state might to scare...
View ArticleChildren’s Day Celebration 2018; Reflections on Parenting in a Changing...
An often overlooked social menace eating away into the fabric of contemporary Nigerian society, is the waning influence of parents over their wards. Children are growing up lately in a world utterly...
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Police Declare Fleeing IPOB Members Wanted
The Nigeria Police Force has declared some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wanted for attempting to show solidarity to their, leader Nnamdi Kanu, when soldiers invaded his home in...
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