Tag: Hope Eghagha
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National Awards, National Scandal – By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
It was with great incredulity and near hopelessness that patriotic Nigerians watched the greatest and most enduring and successful corruption-fighting President of Nigeria HE Muhammadu Buhari dish out national awards to some distinguished citizens and foreigners last week, as if all was well with the country and the men and women who had made it…
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Conversation Nigeriana (8) – By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
Obukohwo: All the victims, innocent travellers between Abuja and Kaduna, kidnapped by the vagabond train terrorists have been set free at last! Dupe: Praise the Lord! Bankole: Released or set free after payment of ransoms?
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Conversation Nigeriana (7) – By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
Dupe: The Queen, the Great Queen is dead and buried! Emeka: Long live the Queen, long live the king! The king never dies, so they say! Dupe: True! The throne is forever; so, the monarch lives forever! There are a lot of lessons to be learnt from her reign, her life, her style, and the…
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Federal Government, ASUU and the Judiciary – By Hope Eghagha
So it was that in the dingdong end-strike and don’t-end-strike affair between the almighty federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the former deployed the hammer and anvil, carpenter and nail, and soldier and enemy approach to try and bully the intellectual powerhouse of the country into a humiliating submission.
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Enforcing Traffic Rules in Lagos – By Hope Eghagha
Last week, officials of Lagos State government auctioned 134 vehicles that had been impounded from traffic offenders. It was a tough measure, indeed, insensitive considering the harsh economic climate that we live in. Some of those vehicles were bought on hire purchase. There was the example of a 49year-old widow Dorothy Dike whose bus was…
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The Queen Dies – By Hope Eghagha
It is perhaps one of the sweetest contradictions of our times how Nigerians and indeed Africans as a race, erstwhile victims of British colonial exploitation, rapacious destruction of cultural, religious, and economic heritages have openly celebrated the life and times and mourned the death of the great Elizabeth II Queen of the United Kingdom and…
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The University Campus without Students – By Hope Eghagha
The university campus, anywhere in the world, is virtually dead without students. The lecture halls miss them. Lecturers miss them. The porters and security personnel miss them. Food and petty vendors miss them the most. Food vendors have had their businesses paralyzed and so cannot meet their obligations to their wards or landlords. There are…
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Conversation Nigeriana (5) – By Hope Eghagha
Bishak: Enough of this insulting and arrant nonsense that is ASUU! This is unbecoming! El Rufai’s son has already said ASUU is ‘useless’ and should be ‘scrapped! Modupe: Like father like son! They are both diminutive basket mouths! They talk before they think and that is why part of his state is under the control…
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Adamu Adamu: What manner of Education Minister? – By Hope Eghagha
When the strike by Academic Staff of Universities (ASUU) started in February and Minister of Labour Dr. Chris Ngige became the face of government negotiators, we often wondered why the Minister of Education Mallam Adamu Adamu whose Ministry ostensibly should oversee tertiary education was permanently missing in action. Word filtered in later that he was…
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Conversation Nigeriana (4) – By Hope Eghagha
Timi: It’s not everyone who plays stomach politics. See the way Atiku treated Wike and Wike’s reaction. That man is like a mad dog oo. They should not mess with him. The Rivers State guy doesn’t care. He is ready to go for broke in the tradition of ‘emilokan!