By Ezeh Jude .O

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else." - Lee Iacocca

Of all the cadres and professions of civil service, none has suffered more denunciatory and disdainful treatments like the Nigerian teachers. Society, in general, sees them as a people occupying the lowest strata in the honors web. They are downscaled to proletariats, and most surprisingly by those they taught. Before the return to democracy, they were among the least remunerated civil servants. A sharp contrast to Carl Jung's assertion: "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our

By Ezeh Jude O.

Almost all our past leaders on khaki do evoke some sort of situational irony each time they discuss burning national issues from their respective retirement homes. They suddenly become 'omniscient,' proffering solutions to all the problems facing us as a country, (even though their missteps in office visited most of these misfortunes upon us), and they would want their predecessors to heed their advice and fix them with magic wands.

By Ben Gabriel

The uproar surrounding the arrest and detention of 3 Israeli filmmakers in Nigeria by the Department of State Services is unnecessary and misconceived. The desperate move exhibited by the trio in hastily releasing a video to paint the country and the intelligence agency in bad light further justifies an innate motive to cast aspersions.

By Chidi Omeje

Something is happening in the northeast. The counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations which the Nigerian military is prosecuting in that region is gathering steam and the steam is obviously becoming too hot for the adversary. In what appears to be an anti-climax in their bloody campaign, Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have been boxed into a cul-de-sac, courtesy of the unrelenting offensive operations of the Nigerian troops; a predictable fate that offers the notoriously vicious terror group only one option: waving of the olive branch! And olive branch they have been frantically waving of late, the bloodied terrorists.

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