Consider these scenarios: 50,000 teachers cannot pass a basic test in elementary English; illiteracy rate of about 70%; only 10 out of 1.6 million candidates that sat for university entrance examinations scored a pass mark of 300 and above out of a possible 500. Add this to a situation where 10.6 million children are out of school – the highest ... Read More »
Last weekend was not only the date of the setting out of a political firework that stressed the pulse of the nation, it’s my moment of emotional solidarity with the state of Nigeria, with the ongoing cluelessness adopted as policy in checking its monsters—ethnic bigotries, regional advocacies, religious intolerances and, the deadliest, variegated opinions of the stereotype artists whose ... Read More »
Social commentator and former presidential aspirant, professor Pat Utomi, has described the Nigerian democracy as lacking legitimacy, which is an essential factor in any system of government. Speaking at the Lagos State House of Assembly on the occasion of the 2nd Anniversary of the 7th Assembly and the commemoration of June 12, Utomi stated that democracy, legitimacy and the ... Read More »
We begin with a paraphrased quote from Marx; it goes thus – “The dominant ideas of every society are the ideas of its ruling classes”. Perhaps as a measure of the truism of the essence of this statement, the dominant narrative of the June 12 struggle that is being passed down is the narrative of NADECO! 20 Years after ... Read More »
Between Ribadu and the Presidency: Setting the Record Straight As an impeccably responsible students’ body, the Students’ Representative Council of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, notes with utter consternation and disappointment, the reaction by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati on a lecture delivereby Mallam Nuhu Ribadu during a One Day Public Lecture ... Read More »
