President’s Cabinet: Are we Marching Forward or Backward?

Prof. Ezekiel Ette



In a few days the world will know whether the drumbeat Nigeria has recently heard is leading us to march forward or backward. Following what has been described as the most free and fair election in the country’s history, the world now awaits to see if there is a turning point in a new president or business as usual as Jonathan announces the appointment of his new cabinet. In Nigeria, this business of… Continue

AN OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIANS





My Fellow Compatriots,

Somebody once wrote that the greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Actually, what this writer was saying is what has been known for a long time in societies where people have gained freedom from want from the basic things of life. Nobody can oppress you, unless you give them permission. Nobody can take away your basic right to be free and make choices unless you give such an individual… Continue

We made so much noise about apartheid in South Africa. We complained that people of African ancestry were discriminated against in America, yet at home in our homeland we see nothing wrong with age discrimination. Nigeria our homeland is not the land of equal opportunity and no one is in a hurry to ensure that everyone is treated equally. Discrimination in employment is everywhere and employers routinely advertised vacant positions with stipulations about specific age of the applicants that… Continue

Moving Nigeria Forward # 3

National Development and the Nigerian University System



By Ezekiel Ette,



There are two groups of Nigerian professors in the United States. The first consists of those Nigerians who were stranded due to the Buhari administration policies of banning foreign tuition remission from Nigeria in the early eighties; this group became abandoned and with nowhere to go, they focused their energies in schools and some even changed courses and…

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