Plateau state government has
side-line Jos city, no meaning project, no good road and no standard market for
the past year’s, Jos city was double alienated first, marginalised by the state
government and secondly was been engulfed by the issue of settlers-indigene
issues which often escalated crisis and which keep on occurring and reoccurring. What
could a youth of Jos site should do? To be educated and to be reasonable in
other confront those challenges.
Unemployment simply means any
resources that is not fully utilized...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Friday, 19 October 2012
THE NEMESIS CALLED SURE-P (2)
Last two weeks
president Goodluck Jonathan presented 2013 budget proposal to the joint session
of national assembly at Abuja with the theme of ‘Fiscal consolidation with
exclusive growth’. As Nigeria is moving toward economic freedom and self-sufficiency
by Mr. President Transformations Agenda.
If my memory will serve me
well, President Goodluck Jonathan had assured Nigerians that the incomes of the
partial withdrawal of petroleum subsidies...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
NANS: UNITY OR DIVERSITY?
Nigerian student movement
is relevant as any other group in the plural societies of Nigeria for it
development. They have an historical responsibilities in political, economic
and social activities of the country. History also informed us how Nigerian student
struggle for the emacipetation of Nigerian independent in 1960. As the banning
of National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) in 1978, student regroups into
National Association of...
Thursday, 11 October 2012
AWOLOWO AND ACHEBE'S TALE OF FATASY
Written by Femi Fani Koyade
I am a
historian and I have always believed that if we want to talk history we must be
dispassionate, objective and factual. We must take the emotion out of it and we
must always tell the truth. The worst thing that anyone can do is to try to
re-write history and indulge in historical revisionism. This is especially so
when the person is a revered figure and a literary icon.
Sadly, it is
in the light of such historical revisionism that I view Professor Chinua
Achebe’s assertion that Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the...
FEDERALISM: THEORY AND HYPOTHESIS
shall adopt the theory of federalism in generating our
hypothesis. There is
neither an accepted theory of federalism, nor any agreement as to its real
nature (Ray, 2006:150). This implies that the term is still shrouded in
controversy largely because of contrasting conceptualization. However,
commendable attempts have been made by different scholars to demystify the
concept. Ray (ibid), distinguishes between a federal principle, a federal
constitution and a federal government. By the federal principle, he means ‘the
method of dividing...
Saturday, 6 October 2012
THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT COMMONLY CALLED BOKO HARAM: THE WAY/OUT
Written By Prof.M M YUSIF(B.U.K POL.SCI.)
That phenomenon called Boko Haram! What is it? What is its
identity? As of now no one can say. It is still on process of formation.
Let us assume is not a religious movement! Not of foreign
invaders or tribalists sent to cause chaos in Northern Nigeria. Neither a state
terrorist organization.
Unfortunately, educated Nigerians have dissolved into street
opinion about the subject and the...
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