As much as education grants the attainment of various academic degrees and accolades for various research works, it is more importantly a tool for freedom and liberation. It is the key that opens and empowers the human mind with the ability to demand for ones right and stay demanding until such demands are achieved.
Browsing: Ogundana Michael Rotimi
In the buildup to the 2015 elections, I and few friends gathered – about 30 of us – in the Administrative Block of my office, and conducted a mini-poll on whether they would vote for the then President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, popularly known as GEJ, or against him.
However, when people stand up and take a stand, there is something beautiful and powerful about it: It sends the message that nothing will be done or achieved without their involvement, it sends a message that people are aggrieved at the slow pace of development in the society, and that they frown in the strongest term against incompetence and bad governance
Yes, politicians will say whatever it takes to get elected. Every one of them swears that they will be less corrupt, and less corruptible, than the lot in power. Eventually, when they get elected and sit on their various ambitious seats, they forget some of their promises, they even deny some, as President Buhari and the APC have repeatedly done, while they ignore the rest.
A resignation will afford you an ample time to take proper and unconditional care of yourself and pay all necessary attention to your health. In the same way, it will afford the country which is perceived that you love so much, to have a healthy and a mentally stable leader, a condition which is key for one of the toughest jobs in our land
Where do we start from? Is it from the social media plea by Nigerian athletes to crowd- source fund to find their way to Rio? Or from the Dream Team VI that got stranded in Atlanta, Georgia only to arrive Rio few hours before their first match? Perhaps from the opening ceremony where Nigerians filed out while dressed in their tracksuits? Should we start from the fact that Mikel John Obi, had to use his personal money- $4,000, to ensure that the Nigeria Olympic team did not miss their flight to Salvador while players and officials of the Dream Team VI, were held to ransom in Sao Paulo, over unpaid bills incurred by additional officials? Or from the fact that Nigeria’s Olympic kit only turned up a few days to the end of the Olympics after most athletes had completed their events? I am quite sure there are many more embarrassing moments unknown to the public
In confirming this figure, the highly respected Nigeria Security Tracker, compiled by the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations, found that over 6,000 people were killed in clashes between Boko Haram and Nigerian forces in 2014
Following the attempt of secession by Biafra in 1967, which brought about the infamous and highly criticized Nigeria-Biafra civil war (July 1967- Jan 1970) and its disastrous effects on the stability on the country, given the bitterness of the war, the restoration of peace and the reintegration of the Igbos into Nigerian life were pertinent
Your Excellency Sir, This is the first open letter I will be writing to you since your inauguration as the…
Like Esau, you have sold the country’s birth right as the giant of Africa for a plate of porridge. Like Judas, you have sold the country for a few pieces of money to the cabals
Come to think about this: How do you describe the scenario when a media house – Associate Press, reported on Saturday morning that an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission told them that the election would be postponed for six weeks due to security challenges and that the announcement would be made later on Saturday
Last week, the Peoples Democratic Party expressed confidence that its presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, would defeat the candidate of the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, in the North, in a landslide victory come February 14, 2015. This was said during their re-election campaign rally in Kaduna
“A Day with Jesus for Nigeria in Israel.” High-ranking Nigerians joined him for the praying session for the well-being and prosperity of the nation during the pilgrimage
Just within a week after the meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Department of State Security returned the international passports it seized from the former CBN boss nine months ago
As the 2015 general election is underway, the two major political parties are warming up, the political system is heating up and the parties are doing all they can to secure victory