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 […]
Celebrated Noble Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described the proposed death sentence as punishment for hate speech in Nigeria currently undergoing deliberations at the National Assembly as an instrument to silence fierce criticism and opposition in the county. Professor Soyinka stated this during the Ripples Nigeria Dialogue organized by the Ripples Centre for Data and […]
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 […]
Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka is of the opinion that President Muhammadu Buhari should have by now sacked Nigeria’s Defence Minister Alhaji Dan Ali over the incessant harassment of innocent citizens by military personnel for no just cause. Soyinka made the comments at the maiden edition of the Ripples Nigeria Dialogue held in Lagos on […]
The Chairperson of Transition Monitoring Group, Dr. Abiola Afolabi-Akiyode, Thursday, said the body language of President Muhammdu Buhari shows a confused administration that cannot lead Nigeria to a state of development, stating she has lost confidence in his administration. Afolabi-Akiyode said this at the maiden edition of Ripples Nigeria Dialogue tagged “Rebuilding Trust in a […]
Suspected militants of the radical group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern Nigerian village of Dapchi two weeks ago and made away with 110 schoolgirls. Linus Unah travelled to the village to capture the general mood, listen to residents recount firsthand details of the mass abduction, and speak with families of the missing schoolgirls. Laid bare…One […]
Exactly two years ago, Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, boasted that by the year 2018 Africa’s most populous black country will begin the production of wholly made pencils which was first mass produced in the 16th century. However, 24 months after, findings by RIPPLES NIGERIA reveal that nothing on ground shows that the country will […]
In Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, as the governor battles conflicts thrown up by clashes between farmers and herdsmen, he is equally building million-dollar farms, while local farmers are no longer able to farm due to challenges posed by climate change. Kelechukwu Iruoma looks at the danger of a potential food shortage in […]
When Governor Rochas Okorocha rallied most members of his cabinet and a sprinkle of officials of Dana Air under the smoldering heat of Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport on January 24, 2017, not many thought he was going to fish out another trick from his bag of vaunted rescue mission projects. Nearly one year after, indeed, […]
