The stats are very troubling. The images out of Borno are even more horrifying! Late 2017, the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, informed the world that the crisis in Northeast Nigeria had created two million displaced persons and cost the six northern states over $9 million in economic ruins. But those were material losses. […]
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 incidence of violence against children is on the high with concerned groups decrying the alarming increase. The growing scourge has also witnessed the clamour for stringent penalties on abusers to end the menace which is ranked as the third highest crime in the country, after economic fraud and drug related offences. AHMED BOULOR reports… […]
By Patrick Egwu… In efforts to eliminate widespread allegations of corruption, mass cheating, extortion of candidates and collusion by officials, as well as other malpractices and irregularities in the conduct of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Board introduced the use of Computer-Based Test (CBT) in 2013 to replace […]
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, […]
