INTRODUCTION  Nigeria, according to Transparency International has the worst Police force in the world; albeit the NPF and Federal Government had baselessly debunked the obvious true report. This glory she enjoys with the tag of poverty capital of the world. Seventy percent of the Nigerian population has no access to clean water, while 27.1 % of her total populace is unemployed with underemployment pecked at 28.6 %. What this means is that 21.7 million Nigerians are unemployed. When this two are summed up, one gets 55.7 % unemployment and underemployment; that's over 50% of the Nigerian populace. With this, an average Nigerian hardly sees a future in the nation. According to trading economy statistics, over 36% of Nigerian Youths are unemployed. A few that secured employment are poorly remunerated. In the public sector, it's a different ball game as an industrial strike is as frequent as breakfast in the tables of various professions. A clear case is that of ASUU that has b...

  Have you ever had a power Game with anyone in secondary school, especially a senior? I had a silent one with a House Captain when I was minister for state in the Federal Ministry Of Stomach Infrastructure.  I assume everyone who lived in boarding house understands how significant and undeniably vital the Refectory is. Back in my secondary school, I was Disciplinarian, and most importantly, a Refectorian (Refectory prefect). We decided then how Students eat and what they won't eat. In other words, we were very powerful Ministers of stomach infrastructure, and in the words of Harlod lasswel, we decided who get What, When and How. Only a political juggernaut understands how Vital this theory is in game of power. In the Federal Ministry Of Stomach Infrastructure, with headquarters at the refectory and branches at School Kitchen and Stores, you dare not pick at any of our workers. In my school, they were one of the best in their classes in terms of brilliant, neatness and outstan...

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Every race has its culture, which should be remembered, practiced and also stand in as law if they are not in conflict with natural justice, equity and good conscience. Vide Evidence Act (2011) Section 18 (3). Custom means the established or common usage of a particular people. Vide Prof. Osita Nnamani Ogbu, 2013. It has also been defined per Ndoma-Egba, J.C. A in Aku v. Ahaneku as: "The unrecorded tradition and history of the people which has grown with the growth of the people to stability and become an intrinsic part of their culture" In the light of the forgoing, Ori Na Ndu is an Igbo Custom which has grown with the growth of the people. I was working on a research topic I intend to publish in a magazine and needed many facts to achieve some targets. It's on women in precolonial Nigeria: Igbo and Hausa case study.  It could intrigue the reader to know that oral history lives with elderly people. I got much from my grandmother, who although in her late 7...

Credit: Joshua Miels One is always at liberty, even without much consternation to disagree with some truth. But I have come to realize it; the frailty of human nature is highly inseparable from the truth about Male also. When I was younger, like Ten years ago, my father always urged me not to cry when something happened to me. On a day that I gave in to sickness and was taken to a local medicine house to be healed of Ntutu. (Ntutu is a spiritual pin perceived evil men send into someone's body. While it rusted, the person heads close to the grave). The humble medicine man made use of method that is uncommon and unfathomed; he used teeth in removing the spiritual pin. He would murmur and apply some cream on the skin of his patients and used teeth to bit the hell out of the persons. Mostly, women cried more than men that day. The lady before me cried uncontrollably, and I was forced to look pity on her. My father, a handsome young man, drew me closer in-between his thighs an...

People across the world are currently facing an unprecedented global health emergency due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The recent outbreak began in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei province of China. Reports of the first COVID-19 cases started in December 2019. Coronaviruses are common in certain species of animals, such as cattle and camels. Although the transmission of coronaviruses from animals to humans is rare, this new strain likely came from bats, though one study suggests pangolins may be the origin. However, it remains unclear exactly how the virus first spread to humans. Some reports trace the earliest cases back to a seafood and animal market in Wuhan. It may have been from here that SARS-CoV-2 started to spread to humans. SARS-CoV-2 spreads from person to person through close communities. When people with COVID-19 breathe out or cough, they expel tiny droplets that contain the virus. These droplets can enter the mouth or nose of someone without the virus, causing an in...

Dear Rora, I was cast abode, the very first time you blinked those eyes, as blue as the Serene White heaven Beach.Despite my sound education and profundity, I refused to believe they were fixed (artificial); I gave them that natural assent that originates from 'it doesn't matter' heart. I wasn't confused, I humbly must confess; either I wasn't seeing maidens of the Red Sea or biblical eve. Pusillanimously, you look the image of Mumi water. I wasn't lost in my thoughts; I was in you, sincerely. The evidence cried to high heaven; it drove up to mount Everest and had no regards for Kilimanjaro. We've known for long and I wished to pour out my heart. Just like the sailors, I was determined to sail through the turbulent ocean. Exactly in the shoes of Peter, I was ready to cast my nets into an uncertainty enveloped sea. I truly knew that I had all it takes to make you a queen, more precious and valuable than the English Elizabeth; the very best and nothi...

Soschildrensvillage “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.  Grace Abbott The eerie and pretentious stillness that consistently deluge our present day society is child labor; it has volu ntarily inhabited every nest edge of Nigeria and  hatched its disastrous eggs with noticeable evidence. As we daily increase in our numbers, a plethora of children are engaged in coerce labor, thereby, leaving the Nigerian children with little or no opportunity of promising future. This has proved nothing but a strong bulwark which curtailed the potential leaders in no distant time to infertile soil with massive itch on unproductivity and retrogression at a whole. These children are subjected to all forms of abusive measure which perniciously take away their time which they would have invested generously...

Ben&Armani The entrance looks Gentle and the building a vivid exaltation of the beauties of architecture. Inside the building, quadrangles are tiled and a canopy makes it more glorifying. A new comer would never wish to leave after gracing such a nice environment. Ears have heard that lawyers are trained there, and legs have come to assist the eyes see. Seeing they say is believing. Having passed jamb and post UTME, he stood so tall. Each morning he walks up to the mirror and check if a particular tie fits his neck. He looks at the white and black and laughed. Often he shook his head and Mumble 'Ife agbara na Uzo erike'. No matter what, he is now a law student and probably would be a lawyer soon and wins many cases. Things will change for good. The Bus that conveyed the latest Counsel from Garriki to Agbani took more than Supposed but Latest counsel didn't bother much on such pennies. He walks up to lady Justicia and smiled. He went back to his Lodge and change...

What could I have done to abate the heart attack planned against me by the managing director of our company, who was also my principal, if there was nothing called number six within? Immediately after my secondary school, I worked with a security and Services outlet based in Awka. Our salaries come a week late, and we weren't happy for such because we put our lives on the line, making sure that the hotel is safe. I gained admission and tendered my resignation letter. My supervisor read my letter and said I wrote like someone who has already graduated from University. He was also happy that a boy he considered and helped despite being under age to work with the company will be moving ahead to pursue something bigger. My MD wasn't happy, I guess. As I counted on the day, my MD counted on the right to sack me. The onerousness of his plans made my supervisor to remind me of being careful with my duties. What a good man! He didn't tell me why; yet I was a lucky chil...