Browsing: Frank Ijege

Nigeria has the highest number of children of school age who are out of school in the world. Nigeria has the highest number of youth population who are not employed or engaged in any meaningful thing‎. Eleven million children are out of school in Nigeria. Eleven million youths are unemployed in Nigeria

While Nigerians were faced with how to tackle or at least escape from being victims of the dread sect, another one in the guise of Fulani herdsmen sprang up. This is the latest terror in town; it has embarked on a wanton killing spree. Hundreds of lives have been wasted by the marauding killers.

This is a plea to the National Youth Service Corp to make the welfare of corp members its primary responsibility. It is wrong to owe corp members their monthly stipend

She married him and made him the centre point of her life. He became the coordinator of her affairs and remained

However, people are beginning to question his style of governance. Many Nigerians are disenchanted with his administration less than two years after taking over

We had witnessed 16 years of monumental corruption, clueless leadership and an unwillingness to try under the PDP. Our collective patrimony was shared by a few; for those in government and for those who had friends or links with government
It was therefore, not surprising that the people had great hopes and expectations in the administration of General Buhari. But after one year, has President Buhari discharged the burden placed on his shoulders?

As a result, there was understandably great anger in the land. People were united in the quest to send an ineffectual and inefficient government parking. Give us anybody but Jonathan. In the midst of the communal suffering by Nigerians, APC crept in; a party hurriedly created to take advantage of the flops and inefficiencies of the PDP

The general feeling among Nigerians is that the current administration will be different in its fight against corruption. In fact,…

Days went by and he kept working. In order to encourage him to keep coming, his employer promised to “give him something”. Days turned into months, months turned into several months and this chap was still not paid. Worried that their friend was been exploited, his friends called him and tried to talk ‘sense’ into him; he rebuffed them and told them at least I’m working, are you?

This situation is present both at the federal and state levels. At the federal level, the candidates have been engaged in serious politicking, to the extent that governance has relatively been at a stand still because the incumbent president is seeking to be reelected for a second time. This, however, is not the aim of this piece

However, as time when on and I grew older, things started to naturally fall into place. I started to see them as person and sometimes I wondered why I had placed these people in so high a position before. To worsen things, I enrolled for a programme in law where the mortality of lawyers became clearer to me

The people were hardly consulted, neither were they given the opportunity to discuss the terms of their coming together. Many people had expected the colonial masters to take steps to foster unity and imbibe a feeling of oneness among the people. Sadly, they didn’t. Instead of uniting the people, the colonial masters for selfish reasons, further planted division among the people. People were taught to regard those from their ethnic group more than others

The likes of Paul Biya, Idriss Deby, Yoweri Museveni, Jose Eduardo Santos, Todore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Robert Mugabe and a host of others who have been in power for donkey years, would be jittery now

There were days when he woke me up to attend morning devotion. But he is Muslim! He never betrayed friendship for anything whatsoever; not even religion. I visited him the last time I was in Kaduna, the reception by members of his family remain ever green.

Gabriel Suswam the Governor of Benue State, is someone you will say emerge due to imposition and rigging of elections in his favour

A number of people took the ASUU strike personal, so much so that if you opposed the strike, you were attacked and called all kinds of names. I happened to be one of those critical about the strike and I was not spared

Sir, one must admit that you raised salient issues in your letter that no well meaning Nigerian will turn a blind eye to. There is no gain saying that Goodluck Jonathan is popular for the very wrong reason and has not shown the best quality of a true leader