The order comes barely 24 hours after the abandoned students protested at the Nigeria High Commission office in London. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the payment of fees and stipends of stranded scholarship students of the Niger Delta Development Commission studying abroad. This was contained in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by …
WANTED: A PRESIDENT OF IGBO EXTRACTION One of the features of the British colonial system of administration in Africa was the lumping together of disparate ethnic entities under one administrative body for the rationale of political expedience and convenience. So, the onetime governor of colonial Nigeria, Lord Frederick Lugard, amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria. But, was the …
