Hon. Mbonu Chidiebere Blog

It's quite a displeasure seeing Lecturers and their students loosing taste of a real relationship. If the students are not good, check their lectures and guiding counselors. Lecturers and guiding counselors are like parents to their students and not like a lion and a goat to each other respectively. The lecturers and guiding counselor are to bear in mind that they are training the future leaders who will rule, lead and govern the country and hold international positions in different sectors and places round the world. Therefore, they should input their best to ensure that the future is safe by giving good and adequate training to their students. It's quite unpleasant noticing that some lecturers choose to hurt their students directly and indirectly which brings in the negative components that break good relationship. Thus giving a different sense to their responsibility and understanding to their students. In addition, it's a poor attitude to professionalism ...

In 2017, when Best Somadina, living up to his name, emerged the Mass Communication Best Graduating Student from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), formerly known as Anambra State University, he knew he would get a stream of awards. But the items he got left him bemused: a tuber of yam, a fowl and a certificate. “People expected me to get a gift related to books, but when I got yam and fowl they started laughing, wondering whether I’m a native doctor. If I had got a laptop, or N500,000 to help me for Master’s degree, it would have made more sense,” he said later in an interview with  BBC . Bamisaye Tosin has a similar story. He got N200 for being the  best graduating student (BGS) at the Ekiti State University’s (EKSU) Department of Civil Engineering.. Although, Mr Bamisaye told PREMIUM TIMES he was not discouraged, many class-top graduates like him are no longer impressed with the reward system for academic excellence in Nigeria.

Senator Rochas Okorocha has expressed fear that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may go into extinction by the time President Buhari’s tenure expires in 2023. Okorocha said this while reacting to the crisis rocking the party in Edo state where the state governor, Godwin Obaseki and APC National chairman and Obaseki’s predecessor, Adams Oshiomole, are battling for control of the party in the state. Just yesterday, political thugs attacked the state governor, the Oba of Lagos and some dignitaries that attended a function at Oshiomole’s residence. Speaking to journalists in Kano state yesterday November 2nd, Okorocha said any political party that has the level of internal crisis being experienced in the ruling party is bound to fail. A political party should be a group of people who share common political interest and beliefs; people who pursue a common goal or common objective for the good of the common man. That will be my understanding of a political party, but...

The Nigerian Army has dissociated itself from Operation Positive Identification across states in the country which is allegedly being promoted by one Bricks company. The public has been urged to disregard the statement by Bricks Company on Operation Positive Identification. Nigerian Army’s Acting Director of Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa stated that the ongoing operation positive identification is intelligence driven, deliberate and a targeted operation in the northeast region. The statement reads “following the widespread apprehension on the purported Nigerian Army (NA) operation positive identification from 1 November to 23 December 2019, as mischievously peddled on the social media by a hitherto unknown and fictitious organization, the so-called Bricks Company, which alleges that the NA will conduct the operation and went ahead to state how the operation will be conducted by the Army. “Specifically, Bricks alleges that – “residents shall witness large numbers of u...