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...

 It is safe to say that PMB's long awaited war against corruption has suffered a major setback tantamount to a derailment in the face of these two appointments.  The appointment, particularly by the Bill Gates foundation, has basically validated Ms. Iweala, Nigeria's immediate past Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy internationally and made her almost untouchable through the silent, but unmistakable soft power of these appointments. It will be a PR nightmare for the Nigerian government to start any case against Iweala who allegedly either stole or looked the other way while others stole billions of dollars after such a high level international validation and especially after the public accusations by self-appointed government corruption spokesmen like Oshimole who leveled accusations against her have been debunked in the court of analyst opinion. Even if the government pushes forward in charging her, the case will have to be airtight and well-grounde...

By Terhemba Osuji | Some of you who have read my posts know that I am a strong supporter of the monarchy and will strengthen them even more if I had the power so the can prevent mass murder and riots, but certainly not for inciting ethnic cleansing.  So I am saddened at the ethnic bigotry surrounding these elections, the incendiary statements of the Oba of lagos and the unrealistic wholesale gloating of tribalists on social media about Ibo's losing out in the power struggle in Nigeria today because the happened to be in the opposition in this particular election. There is no escaping the fact that the voting patterns reflect the tribal, religious and ethnic origins of individual voters. It does not take an oracle to know beforehand that the APC will capture the vote in Oduduwa land as the son of the soil is the the VP candidate.  It also came as no surprise that the middle belt would vote for APC because of shared affiliations from the old northern regional government. But tri...

I really believe that GMB can fix Nigeria in under two years, in fact Nigeria should begin to see the dividends from his leadership in under a year.  The only question is whether GMB has the courage and intestinal fortitude to take some very lethal and drastic actions necessary to reverse our downward economic slide.  These actions will have to be revolutionary in nature and if carried out to the core will alienate him from all the relationships he has nurtured over the years and the support bedrocks that got him into power in the first place and only by keeping his eyes on a prosperous Nigeria would he be able to act dispassionately.  The remaining question and requisite necessity to match the will of GMB is whether Nigerians as individuals can summon up the moral and ethical courage to implement these harsh directives in their spheres of control no matter how painful, individually onerous and without regard to familial, tribal, and religious reconsiderations. It is time...