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Articles by Emmah Ijomah
“Teacher, don’t teach me nonsense:” What is democracy, please?
By Ambassador Lilian Onoh In 1970, shortly after the Civil War, my sister’s secondary school had a temporary English teacher who taught them the immortal nonsense: “I threw the ball and caught it,” being the past tense of the verb “to catch.” My eleven-year-old sister promptly walked out of the class and ran home to report that the teacher was teaching nonsense, long before Fela’s iconic song.
NPA Lost N1bn To #EndSARS Protest - MD, Hadiza Bala Usman Tells Senate
Hadiza Bala Usman, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, on Monday, December 14 told the Senate that the agency lost more than one billion naira as hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protests vandalised its facilities. Speaking during the 2021 budget defence session of her agency before the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Usman said N807m had been earmarked for rehabilitation of the burnt portion of the agency’s building.
Ndah-Isaiah: Farewell To A Man of Ideas, By Dakuku Peterside
With Sam’s death, Nigeria has undoubtedly lost one of her greats. The Nigerian media has lost one of its shining lights. We have lost a detribalised Nigerian, a great intellectual, a man of great ideas. At 58, he died too soon, when there was still so much for him to offer our dear beleaguered country. It was with great shock that I received the news of the passing on of Samuel Ndanusa Isaiah, commonly known as Sam Nda-Isaiah.
UN Demands 'Immediate, Unconditional’ Release Of Katsina Schoolboys
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the attack by suspected bandits at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State on December 11. Guterres’ reaction came in a statement by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Monday in New York. He called for “immediate and unconditional” release of no fewer than 300 male students, the attackers reportedly abducted from the school.
Why Have African Leaders Been Unworthy of the Mo Ibrahim Prize?, By Ebere Onwudiwe
As the great American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once taught, character is everything. He asked that we judge people by the ‘content of their character.’ This universal insight should apply to those in leadership positions as well. People may fear leaders with flawed characters, but they aren’t respected. Period. This should make you cry, if it wasn’t so darn funny. What the heck is wrong with African leaders who want to be presidents for life?
Still On the IMF and the Economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Of the many dimensions of commentating on the Nigerian economy, none is more disorientating than the feeling that “all of these have been said before”. Over the decades since the first oil crisis in the 1970s, our economic trajectory has mimicked the diverse circumstances of a junkie, intermittently alternating between a high and the painful symptoms of withdrawal.
BIC Ijomah: Tribute To A Colossus, By Emmah Ijomah
That is what he was: A colossus. Dr. B. Imeagwu Chukwumah Ijomah, a professor of Political Sociology, author, scholar, and institutional administrator. Ijomah graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1963, and after three years as administrative officer and assistant registrar at the same University, he proceeded to Northwestern University, Evanston, where he obtained a Master’s Degree in 1967 and a Doctorate Degree in Sociology in 1969.
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