New Nigeria Vanguard

Typical of the operations of an inherited military culture Nigeria's Minister of Education issued a terse statement sacking and appointing 12 new Vice Chancellors to a few of Nigeria's dysfunctional universities. All appointments in Nigeria are political and are always viewed from an ethnic slant so it was no surprise a civil rights association pointed out in a statement that "Four of the 12 appointed VC's are from the University of Kano, and that the minister had not only violated laid out rules, but had used his influence to appoint his friends and cronies to these positions, given the Themba ethnic slant of these appointments. Suffice it to say is that they victims, civil groups the media, these universities and minister are going to be embroiled in a needless political debate that takes away from the true objective and mission of these policies to - Teach and graduate first-rate students to secure employment. It is not clear why Nigeria adopted the policy of using ...

Typical of the operations of an inherited military culture Nigeria's Minister of Education issued a terse statement  sacking and appointing 12 new Vice Chancellors to a few of Nigeria's dysfunctional universities. All appointments in Nigeria are political and are always viewed from an ethnic slant so it was no surprise a civil rights association pointed out in a statement that "Four of the 12 appointed VC's are from the University of Kano, and that the minister had not only violated laid out rules, but had used his influence to appoint his friends and cronies to these positions, given the the ethnic slant of these appointments.  Suffice it to say is that they victims, civil groups the media, these universities and minister are going to be embroiled in a needless political debate that takes away from the true objective and mission of these policies to - Teach and graduate first rate students to secure employment. It is not clear why Nigeria adopted the policy of using a...

it is amazing how Africa has abandoned its traditional religions to fully embrace the religions of its former oppressors.  Our history does not remind Africa repeatedly that Arabia enslaved and colonized the people of Africa for centuries, allowing for huge swaths of north Africa to fully embrace the teachings and lifestyle practices of these oppressors while abandoning their native religions and codes.  Not to be outdone, other parts of Africa endured the more celebrated transatlantic slave trade for many centuries only to eventually abandon its traditional religions (animists and idols, as illicit as our gin) and embrace Christianity with all its incongruities.  These abrahamic religions cause Africans to read holy books out of variance with african culture and perform pilgrimages to foreign lands where Africans are traditionally treated as 2nd class both in deed and by the root theology of these religions instead of visiting our shrines and revering our symbols like th...

It is amazing how Africa has abandoned its traditional religions to fully embrace the religions of its former oppressors.  Our history does not remind Africa repeatedly that Arabia enslaved and colonized the people of Africa for centuries, allowing for huge swaths of north Africa to fully embrace the teachings and lifestyle practices of these oppressors while abandoning their native religions and codes.  Not to be outdone, other parts of Africa endured the more celebrated transatlantic slave trade for many centuries only to eventually abandon its traditional religions (animists and idols, as illicit as our gin) and embrace Christianity with all its incongruities.  These abrahamic religions cause Africans to read holy books out of variance with african culture and perform pilgrimages to foreign lands where Africans are traditionally treated as 2nd class both in deed and by the root theology of these religions instead of visiting our shrines and revering our symbols like th...