A report released in March 2018 by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), which showed that Lagos state had about 1,401,390 million PVC’s still in its possession and that just 5,095 had been collected since the commencement of distribution in April 2017, aroused curiosity. Ripples Nigeria correspondent, Akin Obakeye, visited 10 local government areas out […]
There are indications that late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, had thought of Muhammadu Buhari as a “fanatic” and “Jihadist” who would rather divide Nigeria along religious and ethnic lines if he became president. For this reason, the Ooni had said that endorsing Buhari to become president of Nigeria will not come from his […]
Despite handing over power to Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, General Abdulsalam Abubakar later regretted his action and worked hard to stop him from achieving a second term in office. He said Obasanjo was too “obdurate” to listen to anyone, even when he had derailed from the vision of the party that brought him to power. […]
Against the backdrop of the #lazyNigerianyouths frenzy centred around the debate over how many Nigerian youths sit back and do nothing while expecting free money because Nigeria is an oil-rich state, Ripples Nigeria presents a list of 20 young Nigerians who are beating the odds to achieve success. They have through sheer tenacity, and use […]
By Patrick Egwu… In every conflict, people are always at the heart of it – from those who were killed, relatives of the deceased and chilling stories of survivors. Sadly, often times, the voices of these people are hardly heard as the power play by politicians always dominates discourse with a show of interests. On […]
By Sunday Orji… “…Before the end of the third day, all the animals that took the water died“. The flares at Obrikom in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of RIvers State, never die. Fumes from high vertical flare stack stay steadfast in the air; darkening the day and brightening the twilight. The plants and shrubs and […]
The Chairperson of Transition Monitoring Group, Dr. Abiola Afolabi-Akiyode, has said that Nigeria’s political and economic system has been designed to fail by Nigerian elites who are the beneficiaries of the political space and care less about the existing challenges of citizens. She noted that restructuring can go a long way to solve various leadership, […]
Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has advised journalists to do their work with professionalism so as to avoid unnecessarily heating up the polity. He stated this while dismissing a report by Sahara Reporters quoting him as saying that Nigerians have lost trust in the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Mr. Obi, in a statement […]
Celebrated playwright and essayist Professor Wole Soyinka has for the first time revealed the details of his conversation with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his reaction to the Ikeja Cantonment bomb incident in which a number of people were killed. He lamented that in the aftermath of the incident, he read that Obasanjo had chided […]
Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has suggested that Nigeria at the moment no longer needs leaders like President Muhammadu Buhari who will tell the country the problem they met, but those who will profer solutions to the problems. The former governor stated this at the maiden edition of the Ripples Nigeria Dialogue held […]
