Category: Story of the day
Why the SDGs hold the key to rebuilding Benue after the flood
by Alexander O. Onkwue The Minister for State for Environment, Mr Ibrahim Usman Jibril paid a visit to the Benue ...
Is NEMA still in control of the IDP situation?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Reports from camps for Internally Displaced Persons in Borno state say that at least seven have ...
What does this video say about NEMA and professionalism?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Mustapha Maihaja, the DG of NEMA was on NTA this morning to discuss the agency’s response ...
Must-I-offer? Who is the penny-pinching NEMA boss?
by Alexander O. Onukwue There appears to be some reason to believe the apparent inefficiency of the relief efforts of ...
The Implication of NEMA’s position in the league of strikes
by Alexander O. Onukwue The National Emergency Management Agency threatened to embark on strike last week if some conditions of ...
Can the explosives’ sniffer help with fighting Boko Haram?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Those who attended TEDGlobal 2017 at Arusha Tanzania say it was one of the best events ...
Boko Haram: Can we be better than ‘better than in 2015’
by Alexander O. Onukwue “Nigeria’s major cities and towns will never be held hostage by Boko Haram ever again”, Minister ...
Boko Haram: Defeated, depleted or what exactly?
by Alexander O. Onukwue On BBC Hardtalk, Nigeria’s Army chief employed a technical dodge to backtrack on the Army’s claim ...
Should President Buhari not have visited Benue state already?
by Alexander Onukwue The senior special assistant to President Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu, released a statement on the thoughts of ...
Benue floods: Beyond human control or human caused?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Mr Terver Akase, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, was not ...
Can Benue use this floods to re-plan its urbanisation?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Reports from the Benue floods say that about 3,000 homes have so far been affected across ...
Overcoming the money politics of flooding
by Alexander O. Onukwue After the Federal Executive Council meeting of July 12, Yemi Osinbajo, at the time the Acting ...
Any aid to Nigerians caught in Hurricane Harvey?
by Alexander O. Onukwe With about 44,000 persons, Texas has the largest Nigerian population of any state in the United ...
Our worn out global village of landslides, floods and hurricanes
by Alexander O. Onukwue The landslides that ravaged Sierra Leone a week ago took north of 1000 lives. About the ...
Why are we not seeing charity donations to Benue flood victims?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Two of the biggest stars of Hollywood, Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio, have donated $1 million ...
What Hurricane Harvey should remind us about Nigeria’s education
by Alexander Onukwue Amidst the devastation that has been produced by the category 4 tropical cyclone known as Hurricane Harvey, ...
America in narration: “…And after the eclipse came the hurricane”
by Alexander O. Onukwue Less than a week after it witnessed its first total Eclipse of the sun in a ...
Will President Buhari consider changing Malami?
by Alexander O. Onukwe In his response to the ongoing disagreement between the AGF Abubakar Malami and Ibrahim Magu of ...
Could Malami and Magu’s feud derail the Diezani case?
by Alexander O. Onukwe The EFCC has been accused of performing badly in anti-corruption trials because of their reliance on ...
What Aondoakaa vs Ribadu can teach us about Malami vs Magu
by Alexander O. Onukwe In Power, Politics and Death, written by Olusegun Adeniyi, the spokesman of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, ...
So Malami actually wants Magu’s job for himself?
by Alexander O. Onukwe Abubakar Malami has made quite a meticulous move to further bring the EFCC under stricter control ...
Magu vs Malami: What’s up, boys?
by Alexander O. Onukwe After the meeting of the Federal Executive Council on the 5th of July, Attorney General of ...
Why our mumu suppose don do for ASUU strike, not Diezani
by Alexander O. Onukwe The Our Mumu Don Do movement decided it was going to take a 21-day break after ...
Why is Lauretta Onochie trying to be the centre of attraction again?
by Alexander O. Onukwe The Our Mumu Don Do movement has taken up a third protest within the calendar months ...
This Diezani fuss needs some kind of force
by Alexander O. Onukwe The mention of Diezani Alison-Madueke in the media, over the past two years, has become synonymous ...
Why not try Diezani in the UK?
by Alexander O. Onukwue The British judiciary will probably do a better job of convicting Diezani Alison-Madueke than in ...
#BringBackDiezani: Underwhelming or under construction?
by Alexander O. Onukwue It is fair to say the extradition of former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke is ...
Two questions about the conflicting cabal stories
by Alexander O. Onukwue A cabal is “a term used to refer to a group around the president which ...
Have you heard of the 3 M-Men of the Kaduna mafia?
by Alexander O. Onukwue For as long as the Buhari presidency has existed, there has been talk of cabals ...
The art of second-guessing the second in command
by Alexander O. Onukwue A former House member of the House of Representatives in the second republic, Dr Junaid ...
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- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy